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Year 2012| Date | Holiday | Comment | January 1
(Sunday) | New Year's Day | | April 9
(Monday) | Easter Monday | Religious - Catholic or protestant | May 1
(Tuesday) | Labor Day/May Day | | May 8
(Tuesday) | Victory Day 1945 | | May 17
(Thursday) | Ascension | Religious - Catholic or protestant | May 28
(Monday) | Whit Monday | Religious - Catholic or protestant | July 14
(Saturday) | Bastille Day | National Day | August 15
(Wednesday) | Assumption | Religious - Catholic | November 1
(Thursday) | All Saints' Day | Religious - Catholic | November 11
(Sunday) | Liberation Day 1918 | | December 25
(Tuesday) | Christmas Day | Religious - Catholic or protestant |
France Articles
There are so many things to see in Paris and so little time to do it that your journey in the French capital can wind up taking the colors of a marathon run. I offer you a different take on it: stop, review your options, and decide to kill a couple of hours doing just nothing but reading a good book in a spot where you can be left to yourself. Here are three spots where you can do just that.
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Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and has a well-deserved reputation to be a cultural icon of Europe. Getting around in Paris is easy, but driving is not the recommended way to see this beautiful city. For the tourist, walking may be one of the best ways to see the city because you’ll have the opportunity to really savor the full ambience of Parisian...
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Wired Tourist Articles
A motorcycle represents freedom: the freedom of the open road, the freedom of speed, the freedom to go. Bikers are cowboys reinvented. They aren't content to go the way of the package tourist.
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Costa Rica literally translates into "Rich Coast," so named by Columbus for the gold necklaces worn by the native people when he arrived in the early 16th century. However misleading the name might have been for gold hunters, it appropriately describes Costa Rica's copious coastline...
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