Around the world: unusual and funny holidays in different countries

A holiday is fun, joy, and a good mood. All people celebrate birthdays, New Year and Christmas. This is familiar and understandable. But there are amazing, unusual and funny holidays of the world that are inherent in the traditions of only one country. They are very fascinating, although they are not always clear to the Slavic soul.

Brits love funny holidays

"Catch up with cheese": invigorating fun on Fresh air every last Monday in May is held in Coopers Hill. The contestants chase a large cheese head rolling down the side of a high hill. The prize goes to the one who catches the cheese first.

"Bird people": An amazing competition takes place in the city of Bognor at the beginning of July. Participants in colorful feathered costumes and with homemade wings jump from a tower into the sea. The "main bird" becomes the one who lasts the longest in the air.

"Swimming in the swamp": the British find it very funny and spectacular. On the last Monday of August in Wales, everyone in fins and masks swim 55 m in the swamp. And all, without exception, who decided to do this, receive prizes.

"Funny grimace" complements the funny holidays of the UK. It is celebrated every third Saturday in September in the English town of Egremont. The contestants make faces, make faces in the hope of a prize. The people around are resting, having fun and taking pictures. All in bright clothes and in a great mood.

How Americans have fun

In the USA, they also like funny holidays, although Americans understand fun in their own way.

"Mountain oysters" is how cowboys call bull eggs. In May, a cooking championship is held in Texas. The winner is the one whose dish of fried bull eggs will be more fragrant, more appetizing and tastier. For some reason, Americans refer this competition to the category of "funny holidays".

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"Burning Man": at the end of August, a week before Labor Day, thousands of Americans and visitors to the country are heading to the Nevada desert to the city of sand. Everyone tries to show their creative potential to the fullest, which is expressed in unthinkable fancy clothes, wonderful accessories, brightly painted faces. The goal is to live in an improvised place for a week. At the end of the festival, the city is destroyed and an effigy is burned to the pathetic drum roll.

"Riding in coffins" is a sense of humor among the residents of the city of Manitou, who are happy to drive down the mountain in coffins on wheels.

"Pirate Day": On September 19, Americans gather in merry gangs, put a blindfold on their eyes and cheerfully sing robber songs. Such parties are really very positive. Today the Pirate's Day has already become an international holiday.

Fun on the battlefield

The funniest holidays in many nations are associated with gambling battles. The shells are vegetables, fruits, and other products.

"Egg throwing": the action takes place annually in the summer in the UK. Recently, not only Englishmen, but also residents of other countries have been taking part in the holiday. A variety of competitions are held: egg throwing for range, accuracy, "Russian roulette", relay race for the transfer of raw eggs. People laugh and get a lot of positive emotions.

"Tomato battle": A real tomato battle is taking place in the Spanish town of Bunyol on the last Wednesday of August! Spaniards frolic, pelting each other with overripe tomatoes. Everyone walks dirty, but cheerful and happy with life.

"Orange Carnival" is held in Italy in the town of Ivrea at the end of February. This traditional holiday, rooted in the distant 1194, is very much loved by the locals. A noisy, cheerful celebration stretches for several days, is played out according to a certain scenario, the culmination of the action is just a battle with oranges.

Fire Holiday

It's hard to call this holiday funny, but it can't be ignored. "Las Fallas" is held in Valencia, Spain from March 14 to 19. This is a crazy fire carnival ("las fallas" means "fire") with processions of mummers, a sea of bright colors, an abundance of pyrotechnics and special effects. The central place at the festival is occupied by the burning of pre-prepared dolls, one of which is "left alive". The lucky doll is chosen by vote and sent to her brothers in the local museum.