Holidays & Festivals

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We love them and we’d love them more if they were uniform across the globe. Holidays and Festivals have a habit of happening after you’ve worked out your travel schedule to the last nanosecond. Find out how your trip figures with calendars around the world with JourneyMart’s exhaustive list.
ENGLAND
Date 2008 Occasion
January 1 New Year's Day
March 21 Good Friday
March 23 Easter
March 24 Easter Monday
May 5 May Day Bank Holiday
May 26 Spring Bank Holiday
August 25 Summer Bank Holiday  
December 25 Christmas Day  
December 26 Boxing Day
Holidays falling on a weekend are celebrated on the Monday following. If two consecutive holidays fall on a Saturday and Sunday, they are observed on the Monday and Tuesday following.
Non-holiday observances
February 14 Valentine's Day  
April 1 April Fool's Day
April 23 St. George's Day (Patron Saint of England)
November 5 Guy Fawkes' Day
November 11 Rememberance Day (2 minutes silence at 11 a.m.)
Weekend Saturday, Sunday