Thursday was the third of the four public holidays that we have this May. Thursday was Jeudi de l'Ascension. I didn't know that 40 days after Easter is Ascension. We have another holiday next Monday for Lundi de Pentecote. I didn't know that Pentecost was 50 days after Easter.
Schools were closed on Friday to "faire le pont" - make the bridge from the Thursday holiday to the weekend. Isn't it convenient that there is no school on Wednesday? The Friday was just shifted to Wednesday.
We were invited to stay with friends in their family house in Sologne and went for big long walks in the surrounding forest.
2 comments:
They don't normally go to school on a Wednesday? I love all the religious holidays in a nation that's trying to ban headscarves on the basis that religion is supposed to be separate from state. :)
Yup - lots of Christian public holidays but strangely, not Good Friday.
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