Valbourg 2007

After two wonderful long days with seeing sunrise Valbourg day was here! Not tired at all (after 1 hour of sleep) we started the day as its ought to be with champagner- breakfast. -not the best at 7 in the morning, but if the tradition says so..- At nine we started squeezing ourselves into the wetsuits and styled ourselves up as good as possile. Markus was a babybird on the other boat.


We looked like rambos with our beerbelly-wetsute-lifejacket-T-shirt bodies.
It was 90 boats that tried to pass two steep waterfalls with lots of barriers in between. Half of the boats got destroyed after the first waterfall, BUT we made it, of course, till the end.


In the end we went for a refreshment swimming in the river. 10° with wetsuit are not that cold.. surpisingly.
In the afternoon the rector of the University said welcome to the spring and suddenly 5000 Students ran to the nations to spray around with champangner. (the swedes call the cheap sparkling crap champagner)

Lunch and fika were held in the Economicum-Park where about 7000 students made the biggest mess I've ever seen.

We went back to Flogsta and everyone who was able to dance danced and had BBQ till he/she was so drunk that they went home.
Valbourg- thats a tradition, and that you cant really buy alcohol at this special day, and that the university is totally closed for this reason.
It was a great day (or shall I say great 4 days) and as soon as I woke up I had to pack my 7 Zwetschken for the Field course in Utö.