This week: A festival where people jump over babies, Fish & Chip Day, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles put their lair on AirBnB, World Ocean Day and the world’s longest tunnel.
Stay at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ secret Manhattan lair
There is a listing on AirBnB to stay in the Manhattan dwelling that Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo call home. The three bedroom, four bathroom apartment is listed for $10 and one of the few rules is to clean up your pizza crusts.
Turtle power! airbnb.com/rooms/12885815
National Fish & Chip Day
What are you having for lunch? Today is National Fish & Chip Day so it would be rude not to indulge in Britain’s national dish. Chippies nationwide are preparing for long queues so don’t wait until you are starving.
Get your tiny wooden forks ready: neoda.org.uk/fishandchipday
Baby jumping Festival
As far as weird and wonderful festivals go, this one is way up there. Since the 17th century, on the Sunday after Corpus Christi (that was the Sunday just gone), the Spanish town of Castrillo De Murcia celebrates El Colacho festival. This festival involves men dressed in yellow and red jumpsuits to symbolise the devil actually jumping over babies as a baptismal rite.
For more on this see: wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_jumping
World Ocean Day
Wednesday 8th June is World Oceans Day and this year the theme is Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet. Events around the world will be promoting the prevention of plastic ocean pollution.
See how you can get involved at: worldoceansday.org/
The world’s longest tunnel
Well we had a good 2nd place run. The Channel Tunnel has been relegated down to the third longest tunnel in the world as the Gotthard base tunnel in Switzerland just celebrated its opening. The 57km tunnel running under the Swiss Alps provides a high-speed rail link that is hoped to revolutionise European freight transport.
For more info see: bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36423250