"Four days at Builth Wells that is the nearest thing Welsh agriculture has to a national parliament, supreme livestock, hundreds of trade stands, and a Friday evening atmosphere that is all its own."
Royal Welsh Show
"A market town show in the Brecon Beacons foothills that has been bringing Welsh Black cattle and mountain ponies into the ring since the 19th century, surrounded by mountains on every side."
Brecon County Show
"A peat bog trench in mid-Wales. A wetsuit. A snorkel. Two lengths. No conventional swimming strokes allowed. The world comes to watch."
Bog Snorkelling Championship
Villagly Award · Soggiest in the UK ✦ Weird & Wonderful"Competitors snorkel two lengths of a peat bog trench without conventional swimming strokes, in Britain's smallest town."
World Bog Snorkelling Championships
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Runners race horse-and-rider over 22 miles of Welsh hill country, a wager born in a pub argument."
Man versus Horse Marathon
"A celebration of Welsh wool and natural fibres, with hundreds of stalls of fleece, yarn and craft."
Wonderwool Wales
"Wales's oldest classical music festival, held in the timbered hall and gardens of Gregynog near Newtown."
Gregynog Festival
"Music, talks and art in the mid-Wales town that was once Owain Glyndwr's seat of parliament."
Machynlleth Festival