Public Holidays in France, Episode 227
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
French people seem to take a lot of long week-ends in May. Labor Day, May 1st is particularly complicated for visitors because most things are closed. Then you have other long week-ends in May like V-Day and Awhen hotels and restaurants are really busy. In this episode of the podcast Annie explains how this works and gives you strategies for what to do so it doesn't disrupt your vacation in France.
Full show notes in this episode are here: https://joinusinfrance.com/227
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| 0:00.0 | This is join us in France episode 227. |
| 0:04.0 | Bonjoure I'm Annie Sergeant. It's a sunny day in France and I'm happy to be with you to help you plan your trip to France. |
| 0:11.8 | On today's episode let's talk about public |
| 0:14.0 | holidays in France. Some people call them bank holidays or national holidays in |
| 0:19.4 | French we call them Le Jourferier but you don't need to remember that. |
| 0:23.2 | So it's going to be a very practical episode, but something you need to know about because |
| 0:28.5 | lots of people ask because they wonder. |
| 0:31.5 | Public holidays are days when public transportation may or may not run, |
| 0:35.7 | museums and attractions may or may not be open, and I can't believe I haven't done an |
| 0:41.0 | episode about this already because this is |
| 0:44.2 | one of the most confusing things about about France because some of these |
| 0:49.7 | holidays they move but you know that they move in your country too but we add a little |
| 0:56.1 | French flare to this as you as you can imagine. Show notes and photos for this |
| 1:00.6 | episode are on a join us in France.com forward slash |
| 1:04.2 | two hundred and twenty seven two to seven. Join us in France is brought to you by |
| 1:09.1 | Patreon supporters and addicted to France the small group tour company for Franco-Feels who want to enjoy their precious |
| 1:17.3 | vacation time to the fullest. Check out our upcoming half-day walking tours in Paris on May 7th and 8th 2019 on addicted to France.com. the the way. All right, so public holidays in France. Every country has public holidays. Nepal is the country in the world with the most |
| 2:07.2 | days of public holidays. They have 36 each year. France is actually quite reasonable because we only have |
| 2:14.6 | 11 public holidays. There's there's eight public holidays that are fixed and three |
| 2:20.5 | that are pegged to Easter and therefore they move. |
| 2:25.1 | The thing is, most of our public holidays in France are in the spring, |
| 2:29.4 | so it may feel like there are a lot of them when you're visiting in May. |
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