Cue cucumbers: It's Lithuania's wackiest vegetable festival

Those facing a what-to-do dilemma this weekend might like to consider one of Lithuania’s wackiest festivals – the Kėdainiai Cucumber Festival.

Of course there will be pickles aplenty, plentiful lashings of an alcoholic cucumber concoction, cucumber cooking and of course the crowning of the annual King or Queen of the Cucumbers.
Potential monarchs vie for the cucumber crown by both demonstrating an advanced knowledge of cucumber cultivation (they must actually have a 300-square-metre hothouse full of frolicking vegetables, which counts me out) and excelling at amusing but as-yet undefined cucumber antics.

The festivities will be led this year by local celebrity Mama Rock ‘n’ Roll who, perhaps appropriately, has the approximate proportions of a watermelon.