Ah Bavaria
yesterday a couple of my colleagues asked if i was going back to berlin that evening. ever sharp as a tack i replied "no" and thought about all the work i would get done on wednesday. later on i clued in that today is all saints' day and a holiday in oh-so-catholic bavaria. since working in nürnberg, i've enjoyed three bavarian statutory holidays, all religious, that we don't have in berlin: corpus christi, mary's ascension and now all saints. not that anyone i've met here seems to be any more religious then anyone i know in berlin. but i think that's a product of the people i know.
it's sunny. i've slept in. i'm enjoying my surprise holiday. and i'm not going church.
it's sunny. i've slept in. i'm enjoying my surprise holiday. and i'm not going church.
posted by kristin at 11/01/2006 10:57:00 a.m.
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Congratulations, you're 1 for 1 in November so far... and today actually had some content... no lunch menus!
(And this makes me 1 for 1 as well... although the content is dubious at best)
What kind of political divisions does Germany have? (i.e. States, Provinces...)
It seems odd that a holiday should be celebrated in one city but not another; but I seem to recall we have a couple of those in Canada too (holidays celebrated only in a subset of provinces).
I guess Canada's just big enough that nobody in (for example) Ontario notices or cares if the folks in Alberta take an extra holiday. :)
hi kern, luckily i'm sitting here with some german friends. germany has 15 federal states.
Bayern
Baden-Würtemberg
Hessen
Saarland
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Niedersachsen
Hamburg
Bremen
Berlin
Schleswig-Holstein
Brandenburg
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Sachsen-Anhalt
Sachsen
Thüringen
we're working on the capitals now.
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