Hyvää Vappua!

[Finny]

Happy May Day, aka. International Workers' Day!

This is one of the "official - unofficial" celebration days, which means that in some countries it's taken very serious and some others, not so serious.

As example, here In Finland, 1 May is an official and national holiday. Apart from Workers' Day (officially: suomalaisen työn päivä, "day of Finnish labour"), it is also celebrated as a feast of students, and spring, called vappu.
(For more information and history, check this Wikipedia link. It might bring interesting stuff about how this has affected in your country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Workers'_Day)
Here in Finland, we like to get really drunk and group up in the city and just, do finnish stuff. Also drinking this thing called "Sima" (mead in english) is a thing, with or without alcohol in it. Including some cardamom bread.

Write down your own thoughts about this, wether you celebrate it or not!

Once again, Enjoy your day folks!

Picture from Finland, Turku, during the event.

The traditional food+drink I mentioned above.

 

[Tuxedo_Mask]

i think i love Finland
The Finns celebrate May because it's Tuxedo's birth month

 

[Lotus]

weird Finns man, celebrating labour day in may.

 

[Oliver]

We're celebrating it here as well

 

[Finny]

I got hella drunk. And with great drunkness comes great hangover.

 

[President]

We dont celebrate it here however I did notice that there werent alot of people in office today, ive no idea why, could be because of this day. Also my boss send me home one hour earlier than normal, could also be because of this day. Who knows?

 

[Sierra5]

I didn't think we celebrated it here until I looked at Wikipedia. Apparently we do. I've never noticed anything happening!

 

[aüx]

This looks amazing to be part of! My country has a similar holiday which will happen next Monday; people will get drunk as usual which is nothing out of the ordinary but there are no cool celebrations to look forward to.

 

[Schobi]

We also celebrate it here in Austria and it is even a public holiday. Also Germany has it.

And as my girlfriend is finnish, i know vappu ofc