Holidays and Festivals Around The World

[Alan]

Today (2005/05/05) is a national holiday here in Sweden, but as most people, I am free tomorow as well.
Looking at this site and the holidays around the world, I see I have MORE holidays than Daniel, but we both have more holidays than Rob (we know you work hard Rob )

Check out the worlds holidays here.

[Daniel]

Haha ... hmmm:

Note that the eve of a holiday is as important or more so than the holiday itself. Most Swedes have the day off, including civil servants, banks, public transport workers, hospitals, shops and media workers. Others have at least a half day. This applies especially to Midsummer's Eve, All Saints Day Eve and Christmas Eve. The eve of May Day is sometimes called Valborg Eve.

Interesting.... I was going to ask you what's up with all those EVE's holidays :P But then I scrolled down and noticed the above paragraph hehe ... and most of Maltese feasts are religious ones 0=)