Finnish Tourist Board Will Use Wife-Carrying to Lure You In
Where: Finland
Fearing that the Santa connection appeals only to children, and the Finnair panda connection is, well, too unrealistic for anyone over 3' tall, Finland's tourist board will now entice you to visit by touting its many strange festivals and contests. Events such as the World Cell Phone Throwing Championships and Wife Carrying World Championships are how Finns celebrate summer and the sunlight it provides.
Additional events include air guitar, a Sex Festival, and a wintertime contest, the peculiar "topless winter jogging" (for which we haven't been able to find any additional information). Also, in case you were wondering, 2007 "might be the best year for sauna competition ever." Judging from the pictures on the Sauna World Championships website, we'd say no year might be the best year for sauna competition.
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