Mayday

I just came back from my Oxford mayday experience.

After taking a short 1-hour nap from 3:30 to 4:30 this morning, I went out to meet my buddies from the BSchool at the Oxford Retreat Pub - YES at 4:30 in the morning.
In the night from April 30th to May 1st all clubs are open until 6 in the morning and the pubs open up at 4 in the morning. Everybody goes crazy and parties all night long (except the poor MBAs who work on assignments ALL NIGHT LONG)...
From the we headed over to Magdalene Bridge. At 6 AM the Magdalen choir sings a Latin song from the tower of Magdalen College for exactly 6 minutes! Then, all the (to a great part drunk) students get naked and jump from the bridge into the river...INSANE...MADNESS!!!
This year the police closed down the bridge and nobody was able to jump off. Apparently last year the water level was so shallow that several people broke their legs. So no nakedness and jumping from the bridge this year.
After the song, the mayday dancers ("Merry Men") in their pagan costumes started dancing all over the street...that was fun to watch!
From there we went straight to the "Dining Room" (restaurant) to have a proper English breakfast with bacon, sausage, egg, beans, etc.
After a quick drop-in at the Kings Arms for a pint at 8 in the morning, I am now back in my room to catch a couple of hours of sleep, before I have to get back to work again.