GrahamPlatt wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:malkymoo wrote:In England we have 8 public holidays, you would be pushed to find a country with fewer, as evidenced by this list:
That comparison is an illusion. England's 8 is worth 11.2 days of most countries' public holidays, based on a conventional five-day working week.
That's 'cos England's holidays are always additional: if the date of a holiday falls on a weekend day, the holiday gets moved to the following monday. And this week, even Tuesday. In other countries you get to serve both sentences concurrently.
OTOH 11th November is “Remembrance Sunday”... never a workday. Whereas in Belgium, it is a day off whatever day it falls on.
Why OTOH?
All that says is that Remembrance Sunday is not one of the eight. Whereas it is one of however many public holidays Belgium has.