>Except for Xmass & new year, I am not exactly in tune with the rest of them. In Cyprus we also celebrate some of
>Greece's holidays, so some times I get pleasantly surprised with 'sudden' bank holidays when you least expect them.
>Few times I even made it to an empty office only to realize it is some kind of holiday going on... No complains though ;-)

Hey, even I get that and I'm working from home :).

>Now with old and new calendar, I really have 'festive season' going on. Regular Xmass / Serbian Xmass , Regular New Year / Serbian ...
>It is kind of to much, even if it is for holidays :-)

If you don't finish the marathon with few extra kilos to worry about later, you whitewashed for nothing ("džaba si krečio" - the famous graffitto on a freshly painted wall).

>Talking about it;
>MX&HNY to everyone affected :-)

Lightly afflicted with the ХЊ (as the Hungarians would read the hny :) part here. Selling firecrackers seems to be legal here, I've seen a few specialized shops already (and you know our city isn't too big... yet they seem to be doing fine). It will be noisier than ever, both NYs. And we got snow on time, yesterday, about 20 cm which isn't evenly spread, because it was windy. The ambient is building nicely...