We love May

May! The best month to be a salaried employee in Norway, because there are more public holidays in May than you can shake a stick at. All those pretty, pretty red days on the calendar.

The 17th of May, Norways favorite holiday

First we have May 1, May Day for you old commos out there, a public holiday. It fell on a Sunday this year, but no worries, Thursday the 5th is Ascension (Kristi himmelfartsdag). Throw in a flexi, you've got yourself a 4 day weekend.

Next Sunday is Pentecost, Whit Sunday, whatever you like to call it (Pinse) and that one gets pulled over to Monday for a long weekend. The very next day is 17 May, National day, the most Norwegian of holidays. Time to polish up the silver and break out the national costumes.

All of this is my roundabout way of saying, that a daily blog entry might not be on the cards for a couple of weeks with all these holidays getting in the way. Pray for sunshine and temperatures above 10 degrees! There's probably at least one more, but I can never remember them all. After the dirge of winter, Norway seems to have made sure that as soon as there is anything like serviceable weather, the holidays start to appear like geese from the south.