Feb 20 2009
Vacation time
I mentioned it before in a post about the French Education System, French people LOVE to go on vacation. We are drawn to the ocean, the sea, the mountain… anything out of our daily “train-train“.
We love them so much, we created three zones to split France for vacation time, to make sure traffic is not too bad on the road.
Right now, it’s winter break and so people go skiing and you will hear on the national news when to leave your house and when or where not to be on the road this weekend, thanks to Bison Futé! But when you rent a house for a week, most of the time you have to pick up your key before or after noon and you want to make the most of it so you try to show up on time…
With a total of 39 days off a year, France is #1. 66% of French people go on vacation— that’s more than 45 million people. Then you have people already living in vacation spots and also class trips to ski resorts or in “classes de mer” at the end of the school year (a week at the ocean with your classmates)
French vacations in most cases means no TV, no internet, and be outside as much as you can because what you pay for is not the comfort of a home, it’s the landscape and fun you don’t get the rest of the year.
