Sometimes words are simply not enough to express your absolute delight or utter frustration with life. That’s when you need a holiday. But not just any old vacation. These times call for an adventure that only Europe’s most expressive and outrageous events can offer…

You’re on your mobile, listening to the love of your life about to say something wonderful, when all of a sudden, the battery dies. Arggggh! Channel that frustration or watch others go for it at the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships in Savonlinna, Finland on 20 August.

At the Cumulus Hotel Mikkeli, they have a children’s playroom – the perfect place to remind little ones that it’s possible to communicate and have fun with someone in the same room.

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Silence really is golden at the International Contemporary Mime Festival in Perigueux, France from 1-6 August. Not only can you smile and make faces at the talented mimes in street and theatre performances, but they even have workshops where you can learn how to be the next Marcel Marceau.

You’ll be speechless the moment you walk into the stunning Chateau Des Reynats -  a castle design with a magnificent French restaurant and terrace overlooking a beautiful park.

See more great Perigueux hotel deals for 1-6 August.

There’s medieval madness going on in Italy at the Jousting of the Saracens in Arezzo on 4 September. Every corner seems to turn into living history as people dress in costume and trumpeters rouse the atmosphere for knights on battle horses competing to show off their riding skills and accuracy to fair maidens.

At the Minerva Hotel you can work out at the gym to get abs of steel – or just slip into a suit of armour and no-one will ever know the difference.

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There really should be a medal for what the lunatics go through in the World Bog Snorkelling Championships in Llanwrtyd Wells near Swansea. Fifty-five metres may not sound like much, but on 28 August you’ll see the strength and courage that 200+ competitors require to snorkel their way through muddy, cold and stinky water in the fastest possible time—without using their arms!

Call us biased, but we think that deserves a sauna at the Best Western Aberavon Beach Hotel followed by a champagne afternoon tea at the bar.

See more great Swansea hotel deals for 28 August.

– Image courtesy of Savonlinna Festivals