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April 30th, 2006

Walpurgis Night Spring Festival

Posted by Lifecruiser in Swedish

Tonight is Walpurgis Night (Valborgsmässoafton). It’s when the spring season is welcomed by us Swedes.

We celebrate it with bonfires, choir singing about the spring and fireworks. The festivities goes on over the whole country.

Though moder nature very often has surprises for us this day with really cold weather and it has even been snowing on Walpurgis for many years…

It’s like King Bore (the winter) must have a last blast before he goes to rest ;-)

But not this year, so it’s a good start of the spring and summer.

Happy Walpurgis!

* F I R E W O R K S B A N G S *

Cruise list: Mrhaney, Mandy, Shash, Kelly, Napfisk, and Kasia.

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Kasia said:

Thank you:) And the same to you:) Are you going to have a bonfire?

April 30th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
Lifecruiser said:

Different organisations are arranging bonfires in different locations every where, so I guess we’ll pick some close to us :-)

April 30th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
Lifecruiser said:

Well, of course, at second thought, as we are as we are, maybe we’ll have one, different - like the picture shows ;-)

April 30th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Napfisk said:

Walpurgis supposedly is one of the patron saints of Antwerp, but I see very few bonfires from my window.

I know, though, how you would look forward to the longer days and the agreeable weather. I’m an autum person, but too much coldness and darkness can do funny things to your system. Enjoy!

April 30th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
Kelly said:

Walpurgis sounds like a lot of fun! I hope you have a great night!

May 1st, 2006 at 3:19 am
Shash said:

Happy Walpurgis, have fun!!:smile:

May 1st, 2006 at 5:50 am
Lifecruiser said:

I guess we had, because we woke up at 1.30 pm today… totally dead…. *lol*

May 1st, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Mandy said:

I’d never heard of Walpurgis till today when I was chatting in the BE chatroom. They were telling me all about it. Hope you had fun! :)

May 2nd, 2006 at 10:25 pm
mrhaney said:

hello lifecruiser. how are you doing today? you have been added to my sidebar. some how i erased yours and some others. sorry about that. some times i have a lot of problems with my template. i can write to it but it does not publish all the time when i want it to.

May 4th, 2006 at 1:55 pm