An explanation of the public holidays in France in May May is usually considered a month full of public holidays in France, when little business gets done. There can be up to four: 1st of May Labour Day, 8th of May VE Day, Ascension and Pentecôte (Whit Monday), but...
The garden is alive with self-seeded wild cistus flowering all over the place. This makes me so happy as not only are they very pretty, they are what we named our house after and they had disappeared. When we bought our plot of land in early 2008 it was a...
May Day in France is all about two things: muguet, pronounced "moo-gay" (lily of the valley in English) and Labour Day. On the 1st of May friends and family offer each other little sprigs, bouquets or whole plants of lily of the valley for good luck. The more little...
On the 1st of May and then every Sunday throughout the month, Nice celebrates the arrival of spring at lu festin de Nissa. This custom dates back to Roman times when a "Mai" (a large pine tree felled in the nearby forest) was displayed in a temple and decorated with...
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