Weird Olde England

From the Sunday Times Travel section, a short list of "Britain’s weird world championships", including:

Shin-kicking: part of the Cotswold Olimpicks, staged since Jacobean times at Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. . .

Snail racing: more than 200 snails slug it out over a 13-inch course at Congham, Norfolk. . .

Flounder-tramping: for the uninitiated, that’s treading on fish. Underequipped anglers gather at Palnackie, in Dumfries & Galloway, and proceed to stamp in the Urr estuary until a flatfish passes by.

Posted by David on March 21, 2004 11:15 PM