> The Happy Monday System, which honestly I just loved based on the name of it alone. Shows how Japan has moved their holidays schedules around just to make people happier with a longer weekend.
In countries with significant amounts of legal leaves (e.g. most of europe), tuesdays and thursdays are also very nice as "burning" a single leave day provides for a 4 days weekend (and 3 days week). French even has an expression for this: "faire le pont" (bridging between holiday and weekend).
Independence Day, in the USA, is always celebrated on July 4. One year in seven this creates some awkwardness: which weekend is "Fourth of July weekend" if the 4th of July is a Wednesday?
In Portugal we have the same expression (probably copied from French). It gives rise to some conversations that sound funny when translated, such as "do you have bridge this Friday?"
In countries with significant amounts of legal leaves (e.g. most of europe), tuesdays and thursdays are also very nice as "burning" a single leave day provides for a 4 days weekend (and 3 days week). French even has an expression for this: "faire le pont" (bridging between holiday and weekend).