Cleverly plan your vacation trips around the holidays

If you like to take a short vacation without sacrificing too many vacation days, you can extend your vacation considerably with clever planning. So submit your vacation quickly before your dear colleagues do it. We'll show you how you can make clever use of the 2017 Bridge Days.

8 days vacation: 16 days off

Easter comes relatively late in 2017: Good Friday is on April 14th and Easter Monday on the 17th. If you take the four days before Easter (April 10th to 13th) or the four days after Easter off, you can travel for ten days in a row. And if you combine both, you even get 16 days of vacation! Ideal for enjoying the first warming rays of sunshine, for example in an old borgo from the early 17th century: the Country residence San Miniato in Tuscany or on an attractive one Agriturismo in Caprese Michelangelo to enjoy. Even between April 29th and May 7th, when it's really warmed up again in Tuscany, you can go away for nine days for just four days of vacation, because May 1st falls on a Monday in a very employee-friendly manner this year. Another opportunity to experience spring in Tuscany is the time between Ascension Day and Pentecost: If you invest six days of vacation, you have 12 days off.

Bridge days in summer

Corpus Christi follows on Thursday, June 15th and offers at least employees in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and in some Saxon and Thuringian communities the opportunity to take a long weekend with a bridge day on Friday or to travel for a whole week with just four days of vacation. Bavarians and Saarlanders can also look forward to the Assumption Day on August 15th, which falls on a Tuesday in 2017.

Soak up the sun again

Everyone else has to wait until autumn, but then they'll be there Temperatures in Tuscany Yes, still in the T-shirt area and the sun shines from the sky for up to ten hours. Nine days of vacation, for which you only have to sacrifice four vacation days, make two public holidays possible in October, because German Unity Day on October 3rd and Reformation Day on October 31st fall on a Tuesday this year. Incidentally, on the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's posting of his theses, Reformation Day is only a national holiday once.