Valborg!! Part 3: Bonfire..

We arrived back in Stockholm n we each went back to our homes b4 coming back out to meet at 7:30pm at Gamla Stan where we will walk to Riddaholmen to see the bonfire..

The woods to be burnt...



Nice evening sky..


At 8:45pm, there is a line of ppl carrying fire torches to the pile of wood..


Everyone of them surrounded the wood n threw their fire at it..



It began burning up..



Irene n me.. it starts to get very hot even for us... we were standing quite far away

LL n me... the light from the fire is lighting our face up.. haha

Me..

Burning wood..


My head on fire!!!

As the wood burns, ppl around us starts to sing some songs in Swedish, to welcome the spring.. i guess.. n ppl will also be dancing around the fire as well..

Valborg!! Part 2: Picnic n Hat Ceremony...

After the end of this watercraft competition ,we walked around Uppsala.. everywhere in Uppsala is in a festive mood.. stores selling food, handicrafts r everywhere..


Human models?

We met up with Irene who just arrived at the train station.. woah.. this statue has a really really big one.. haha

We bought some food from Netto, supermarket.. Dom n I bought a 50kr kebab which includes a can of coke as well.. Alex bought a pizza for 45kr..
We went to the place around Uppsala Slott.. everyone is having a picnic n chilling out there.. along the way, we see lots of ppl drunk from partying n boozing..


Ppl could be seen peeing in the bushes as well.. basically its chaos...

Irene looking on as Alex opens up the box to his pizza..

A wrap up pizza..

My Kebab..

The girls..


The guys...

1 handsome guy n 2 gers.. haha shameless i noe..



The streets r choked with ppl.. many ppl partying away in bars n student union houses..



ppl selling balloons..

in keeping up with the craziness of the ppl around here.. we took some crazy pics as well..


It was drizzling but it didnt dampen the party spirits of the Swedish..

Another look at the crowded street..

We proceed next to the front of the Carolina Rediviva for the hat ceremony.. at 3pm the principal is supposed to wave his hat n students, present n past will wave their high sch graduation caps together as well to signify the coming of spring.. the students, past n present will bring their summer caps n gather here at Uppsala for this ceremony.. everyone will sing a Swedish song as they wave their caps.. i tink it signifies spring is coming..


A band entertaining the ppl waiting for the hat ceremony..

We borrowed a cap from a Swedish.. n took pictures with it..

Parts of the road in Uppsala r cordoned off.. just for pedestrains..

Look at the rubbish all around... a very unlikely sight in Sweden.. an even more unlikely sight is to see ppl finishing up their beer bottle n just throw it on the floor in public.. or finish up their food n throwing the wrappers on the floor just like that.. haha its just only for today..


We proceeded back to stockholm after hearing from the locals that there wont be a bonfire in central Uppsala but only at the outskirts.. this is due to the fact that most ppl in this university town r students.. n they would rather spend their nite partying then to watch wood burn... so its not such a big event here.. we could see it back in Stockholm so we took a bus back..