France. It’s a national bank holiday. It also falls during the 2-week-long fall school vacation.
Older people tend to visit their loved ones’ graves. Florists sell lots of those ugly flowers that are only for the dead (never can remember their name even in French, that’s how ugly I find them.)
The (usually…) long week-end is an opportunity for many people to visit friends or family.
There’s no special food, unlike Easter lamb or Christmas foie gras.
In the last 2 decades Halloween became kind of a thing, with spooky shop windows, scary books on display at the public library and stuff, but I only get 0 or 1 group of trick-or-treaters every year. It’s mostly an excuse for high-school and college student to party and get drunk.
France. It’s a national bank holiday. It also falls during the 2-week-long fall school vacation. Older people tend to visit their loved ones’ graves. Florists sell lots of those ugly flowers that are only for the dead (never can remember their name even in French, that’s how ugly I find them.)
The (usually…) long week-end is an opportunity for many people to visit friends or family.
There’s no special food, unlike Easter lamb or Christmas foie gras.
In the last 2 decades Halloween became kind of a thing, with spooky shop windows, scary books on display at the public library and stuff, but I only get 0 or 1 group of trick-or-treaters every year. It’s mostly an excuse for high-school and college student to party and get drunk.