How to translate the Swedish word ‘tåg’ into English? Whether one uses the most literal word (‘train’) or the best description (‘parade’), it’s quite impossible to catch the Karnevalståg into words. You’ll just have to experience.
Bring your own chair a large bottle of water and come in time to get a good spot. A few tips to enjoy one perfect hour of free entertainment with Lundakarneval’s parade, in which all ages are represented.
Not only in the audience, but also in the parade itself: brave children walk and play along in one of the many orchestras, while alumni from the previous decades have returned to their former ballet group. That might not always contribute to a higher level, but that’s not what matters here.
The parade is in the first place about participating and having fun in the most studentesque way possible. And that means to fool around with anything that concerns student life in the here and now, despite the futural theme of the Karneval.
Russia and Putin are popular themes, but the lack of student housing and the demise of the real man are also considered by the parade. At last the tåg even becomes philosophical and tries to answer the world’s oldest question: which came first, chicken or egg?
Did you miss all the fun? Tomorrow at 1 PM is your second (and last) chance.
5 times wishful thinking by the parade cars
- Sweden will finally win the World Cup in soccer. With help of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and a 3D-printer.
- Will there be any men left for Lundakarneval 2018? The parade is in doubt.
- Wouldn’t you be happy to buy international ears that can translate to 10 different languages? No more struggles to understand Swedish or any other foreign tongue.
- Both Russia and the Vatican will embrace HTBQs. Let’s hope they predicted this right.
- “If Putin comes to Skåne, we will instead go to the moon” – will the next Karneval be celebrated from a crater?
5 hard-to-understand national references and word-plays for the internationals
- Princess Estelle celebrating getting her high school diploma in 2031. The girl is nowadays two years old and Sweden’s most famous toddler as her mother is the future queen.
- Skånetragiken. SkånetraFiken is the company that’s supposed to bring you with the (real) train to Copenhagen. Tragiken is obviously related to the English word ‘tragedy’. Do the math yourself.
- Any reference to Uppsala. Which is Sweden’s ‘other’ student town and obviously very much inferior to Lund, especially now that we have the Karneval and they have…well, just don’t have much fun.
- “The growing-house effect”. This is a wordplay with the word for greenhouse effect and the Swedish House mafia. (Yes, explaining word-plays is no fun.)
- The car with former winners of Eurovision and their walking aids. Since last weekend nobody should be surprised about Sweden’s fascination for Eurovision.
