On 21 août 06, at 15:57, Wendy Lyon wrote:
> On 8/20/06, Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion at mx6.tiki.ne.jp> wrote:
>>
>> From my experience in France, things are a little different. If you
>> go to Paris from the 14th of July to the 15th of August you'll find a
>> lot of small shops just closed. For offices, it is just similar, the
>> run very slow, with probably half the staffing.
>
> Well, that doesn't happen here. People stagger their holidays and
> rarely take the full four weeks at once: it's normal to take, say, two
> weeks at some point during the summer, a week at Christmas or in the
> spring and use the remaining days as sort of "floating" holidays.
Wendy, I did not mean to say they take 4 weeks at once. Only that a majority of people would take their vacations during 7/14 and 8/15 which practically means that a lot of areas feel empty and inactive during these 4 weeks specifically.
> Some offices do shut down between Christmas and New Year's, but in my
> experience that is the *cause* of people taking a week's holidays at
> that time, not the *effect*.
Same here, or there rather.
JC