The Spanish grow an awful lot of tomatoes. This needs celebrating. What better way than to throw them at each other? Every year, in Buñol, Valencia, the Spanish enjoy nothing more than to throw tomatoes at La Tomatina And why not? Beats throwing donkeys off churches. My family happens to live in the Valencia region, and I fully intend to attend though it’s worth noting – I’ve been to a few Spanish festivals and I know that alcohol and chaos feature strongly.

Wife Carrying

This unusual sport tests husband’s stamina and in what way he is able to show that the true love conquers all. This Finnish sport consists of a man carrying a women, she doesn’t have to be his wife, and trying to overcome all the obstacles in their way (literary). Isn’t it just so romantic? According to the International Wife Carrying Rules Committee the wife has to weigh at least 108 pounds. However in North America women carry men, trying to be the first at the finish line.

Underwater Rugby

The only requirement to play this sport is to know how to swim and maybe hold your breath. It is played in a pool of about 4m depth, with 11players on each side score a goal by getting the weighted ball in the opposing team’s basket which is at the bottom of the pool. You just have to pray that you won’t run out of air, it’s a long way up.

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