In English, Valborg is called Walpurgis Night.
Traditionally, you light big bonfires,
but nowadays you just use it as an excuse to get shitfaced.
Valborg is particularly big in the university cities,
so if you're in the Stockholm area the 30th of April,
you should really take time and come to Uppsala!
The day is so popular, that we even celebrate the day before,
calling it Kvalborg (Kval- as in the trial for sports competitions).

In Uppsala, it's tradition for students to go rafting on Fyrisån.
They build the rafts themselves,
so don't expect any genius constructions...

One group had built a raft in the form of an excavator,
with the arm movable!

They used it to try to smash the rafts in front of them.
It was really cool.

Then came something I wasn't really sure what it was at first.

Then I looked closer.
The theme for these guys' raft was...
Japan!
It was complete with a smoking nuclear plant,
large cracks in the ground,
and a gigantic wave rushing towards the land.
I was a bit uncertain if it was okay to joke about it...
Got to think of the PC, you know.

But after Japan came...

The small, annoying elephant from Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter!
FMÄFÄFE is an old children's programme from the 70's,
it's supposed to help kids learn how to read.
Check it out:

Told you he was annoying...

Willy Wonka and his Oompa-Loompas!

Don't get it?

A Dala horse with it's Dala men! 8D

After the rafting, everyone goes to one of the parks on campus,
where they sit and drink and party together.
Some also go to the Champagne races,
where you drink buckloads of, you guessed it, Champagne,
and spray it at each other.

Threatening clouds

At a crossing, I saw the cutest thing!