World Bog Snorkelling Championships

"Three days of the finest Welsh dogs working sheep across a hill field near Brecon, with ice cream from Llanfaes Dairy and a real trial hush over the crowd."

Welsh National Sheepdog Trials

"The market town at the heart of the Elan Valley turns its cattle market into a gathering of vintage tractors, steam engines and working machinery each August, a show that could only happen in a part of Wales where the landscape itself feels preserved from an earlier century."

Rhayader District Vintage Show

"A leisurely ride through mid-Wales hills where every checkpoint hands you cider and perry, capped by a BBQ and free live music in town."

Summer Cider Cycle

"Teams of two mountain bikers tow a charioteer in a Roman-style chariot in a flat-out dash for the world title."

World Mountain Bike Chariot Racing Championship

"A 25,000-capacity festival on a Brecon Beacons estate where ten areas wrap live music around literature, science, comedy and a giant burning Green Man."

Green Man

"The Victorian spa town of Llandrindod Wells dresses entirely in period costume for a week each August, with residents, traders and visitors all adopting Victorian dress for street entertainment, performances, markets and a grand parade through a town whose architecture still looks exactly as it did when the railway brought Victorian society to drink the waters."

Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival

"A beribboned horse's skull on a pole arrives at the ancient Old House inn to challenge drinkers to a sung Welsh rhyming duel before being let in."

Llangynwyd Mari Lwyd

"A three-day seaside spectacle in the tiny village of Seaview complete with a greasy pole over the sea, tug of war, swimming races, diving and a fireworks display over the Solent."

Seaview Village Regatta

"An international event (which means people from Sheringham and further afield take part) on Cromer Pier, where crabbers compete to catch the greatest number and the largest specimen in two hours, with all crabs returned to the sea to wait for next year."

World Pier Crabbing Championships

"Every first September weekend, the hilltop village of Norland transforms via a self-guided trail through narrow lanes and gardens, with villagers creating hundreds of characters on this year's Sports, Leisure and Games theme, all raising money for local causes."

Norland Scarecrow Festival

"On Easdale Island, accessible only by foot ferry, competitors skim slates across a flooded quarry pool on the last Saturday of summer, in the world's only skimming championship held on a Scottish island with no cars and a population of around 60."

World Stone Skimming Championships

"Competitors lob black puddings underarm at a stack of Yorkshire puddings on a plinth, settling an old rivalry."

World Black Pudding Throwing Championships