Taking vacation is now officially a national sport in France: Telegraph

SOMEONE has finally totted it up. We always suspected it but now, according to the Telegraph, it's official.

The French take 37 days holidays a year compared with the UK's 26 days.

But there's more.

Now add the two hour lunch every day. If in France we have 37 days holiday then that must mean we work 223 days of the year (52 weeks x 5 days a week - 37 days holiday = 223 days).

Nobody would deny any hardworking citizen a lunch break. But the average lunch time in Europe is one hour. In which case, by my calculation, the French take an additional 223 hours, or 9 days, a year 'holiday'.

A grand 'hats off' total of 46 days holiday a year.

Bonnes vacances.