Тема: Holidays in England

Besides public holidays , there are other festivals, anniversaries and simply days, for example...
...on the Continent, there are still many forms of entertainment which а visitor from Europe would be surprised to find missing on Sundays in England .

Legal holidays – days on which banks, schools, or other public institutions and most places of business are closed.
Thanksgiving Day, a legal holiday in the U.S., was first celebrated in early colonial times in New England . The actual origin is...

Christmas and Easter are both religious holidays . Now they are officially marked throughout our country.
Carnival-like celebrations were held in England on Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day, the day before the Lenten fast began, until the 19-th century.

There are a number of holidays in the USA which are celebrated every year. Here are some of them.
...of Independence was proclaimed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, when the American colonies were fighting for independence against England .

...they are going to spend the money they earn - it all goes on housing, food, clothes, transport and, if they are lucky, leisure and some holidays .
From New York I would cross the Atlantic Ocean to England . In London I would explore the British...

There are a number of holidays , which are celebrated in Great Britain every year. One of them is, of course, New Year's Day on the first of January. It is not so popular in England as in our country, but it is rather popular in Scotland.