The Carnival II

As promised, more photos from the student carnival. Quarnevalen, from the weekend. Sure was great fun to see. Summer weather. Lots of people out watching. Biking home later, I had some problem finding my way out of the city as so many streets were closed off for the big parade. Fun note, I lost one of my bike gloves during the carnival. Then the following day when I started looking through my photos I noticed my glove on a photo I had taken off a couple hugging! If you want to check out the rest of the carnival photos, press here.

Quarnevalen

Ten photos from the carnival in Stockholm over the weekend. Called Quarnevalen in Swedish. 1500 students from The Royal Institute of Technology took part this year. They spend around a week building the 100 floats. 400 000 people flock the streets to look at the spectacle. I found my place at the corner of Valhallavägen/Odengatan and as it was a good spot I called it, and stayed there for the time it took for everyone to walk by. I should have bought a copy of the BRUXanvisningen. A leaflet that will tell the story about all the floats, but I kinda forgot about that. Every builder gets 60 copies to sell. But usually it is all about current affairs, politics, student life and more. I will show a few more photos tomorrow.

Quarnevalen, the before photos

I visited a carnival this past weekend. Quarnevalen. Held every three years, but because of the pandemic, the 2020 carnival never happened. It is a big event. 1500 or so students from the Royal Institute of Technology take part. They spend about one week building funny and weird looking floats for the spectacle. A tradition that dates back more than a century. Then at 1408 hours in the early afternoon on Saturday, they set off from the KTH University Campus at Valhallavägen in Stockholm. I arrived a little early just in case, and so obviously the start was delayed for at least half an hour, which gave me some time to wander around with my cameras and take a few "before" photos, and these are some of those photos.