The Cortège
cortège swedish cortègen chalmers cortège swedish chalmerscortègen annual carnival parade held walpurgis night april student chalmers university technology gothenburg cortège consists around student around truck carriage carriage depicting—in satirical comic way—significant event taken place since previous parade procession make way city centre seen around people year first cortège arranged student chalmers walked street one foot pavement one foot gutter year april day chalmers student traditionally exchange black student cap white cap student decided gather horse carriage city travel distance usually walked next year chalmers student union decided organize parade student culture joke year committee chalmers cortège committé ccc created organize whole procession current cortège organised chalmers cortège committee ccc date back april year group road water engineer decided celebrate final exam hiring carriage taking trip slottsskogen circled food stall attracted lot attention way day already tradition valborg chalmerists marched every year april long line along vasagatan one foot pavement gutter connection socalled springtime mösspåtagning ie day put still put white tophat time horsedrawn carriage used destination slottsskogen cortège began acquire current feature various phenomenon guessed annually time cortège departed regularly ever since except due exam scheduling conflict well due world war ii ccc arranged cortège due covid pandemic edition cancelled chalmers cortège committé nd chalmers cortège committé retrieved apr cortège history english