Despite wide-spread unemployment and a crippled economy, the Spanish - like the British - are still taking time out for party or two.
Last week saw the annual cultural festival 'Aste Nagusia' ('Big Week') celebrated in the Basque city of Bilbao - a nine-day festival of music, art, fireworks and bullfights that's been taking place since 1978.
Among the stranger traditions of 'Aste Nagusia' is the 'Concurso de Feos,' or 'the ugly competition.'
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In it, residents compete to pull the least attractive face they can muster - a bit like the gurning competitions that are a tradition of rural England.
Photographers at the festival managed to capture some of the better (or should it be worst?) efforts from 'Aste Nagusia' - could you do any better?
