Today is Annandag Pingst. The day-after-Pentecost or Whit-Monday. The Netherlands and Germany are closed. (And maybe more countries…but I know these two are for sure).
This is one of few CHRISTIAN holidays that are still a bank holiday in Europe. These include Epiphany, Ascension day, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday among the more common ones.
What I find ironic is that Europe is by far, much more secular than the US. Yet ironically – there are MORE religious holidays in Europe than in the US!?
Irony of ages.
