Today is a Jour Férié in France! It has something to do with Easter and it is part of the preparation for the big May Jours Fériés Festival. France has many off days in May. Please don't ask us to get prices, details about wines or to arrange shipments. Highlights include: May 1 is Labor Day, May 8th is Victory in World War II, May 25th is Ascencion (something to do with Jesus Christ). May 1st is a Monday, the 8th is a Monday and Ascencion (which has something to do with Jesus Christ) is on a Thursday. Being on a Thursday, this is a pretext for everyone to close down on Friday and have a four day weekend. This leads to Pentecôte, which is early in June and also falls on a Monday. That holiday commemorates something to do with The Holy Ghost. Happy Holidays!
its been Holy Spirit for the past 40 years.
The French even have a name for the extra Thursdays and Mondays that they as a nation take off during these holidays. They call them "les ponts," the bridges that get them from one week to the next.
Yes but some French are working also such days! Like me. I just sent you Mr Dressner an email about Champagne from owner-grower.
Wonderful holidays! But I worry about what will happen to these holidays (as well as all the terrific vignerons) in twenty years when the Muslim population of France will be about one in every four persons.
They'll have diversity, like everywhere else.
Particularly, if they welcome that diversity.
I thought it was a sort of gay pride holiday. |