It is no secret that the French like a holiday, preferably a long holiday!
During May alone there are four Bank holidays!
One difference in France is that all Bank Holidays (apart from the religious ones) are fixed. So the bank holidays on 1st and 8th May are always on these dates, whatever the day.
Listen to this for a classic piece of logic…
Yesterday was Ascension Day, so a Bank Holiday. Today is Friday… who
wants to go to work for one day before the weekend? The French have the
answer… if a Bank holiday falls on a Tuesday or a Thursday then Monday
or the Friday becomes a ‘bridge’ day and they don’t do to work on these
‘bridge days’ either.
They ‘fait le pont’.
Real life in Southern Brittany from Nicole at frenchgites.com. Holiday cottages from only £175 per week
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