You know, it's kinda crazy that I find a service pattern of "only on Sunday before Christmas, Sunday after Christmas and Ascension" in SNCF data and the part I feel weirded out about is that France gets their Thursday-after-Easter holiday three weeks before (EDIT: large parts of) the rest of Catholic Europe. Probably don't have to dodge processions to get much anywhere on that day, either
(EDIT: Aaaand there shows up my particular cultural context, I guess XD
Turns out France and Belgium have only Ascension off, Poland, Croatia, Spain and Portugal have only Corpus Christi off (hence my toot), the Catholic bits of Germany and Switzerland and Austria have BOTH off, and Italy, Slovenia, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovakia and Hungary get neither (in Italy they had both before savings measures in 1977), so it's actually really fragmented!)









