This doesn’t exist in the UK because nearly all public holidays are Monday or Friday so there is rarely a working day in between days off. The only exception is if Christmas Day is a Tuesday or Wednesday then that day and the day after are bank holidays but since that week only ever has three working days in it anyway (if Christmas is Saturday or Sunday then the Monday and Tuesday are bank holidays instead) many people take the three days leave anyway or are compelled to as their workplaces are closed. And if you cannot take those days of it’s probably because you are anyway working in the holiday days (e.g. emergency services or hospitality sector)
But anyway no special name like “faire le pont” (make the bridge) in French.
We have May 1st, January 6th and August 15th (religious), March 25th and October 28th (national), usually local Saint day is a holiday as well, depends.
Fun fact: Ioannina’s liberation day is February 21st (Balkan wars, long story).
It’s an important holiday and everything is closed etc.
My job is located maybe 10, no more than 15 meters in an adjacent municipality (technicality, everything is basically Yannena), so our boss says “No Yannena municipality, no holiday, suck it”, which doesn’t go too well here.
Traditional holidays, even if not official, tend to carry weight here.
I wonder if that has really happened in this tournament more than in other less extreme correspondence games, like e.g., the Site 19x19 ladder. As far as I am concerned, I had not great conversations in this Tournament, if any conversation at all, and I have already forgotten the names of all my opponents. Whereas in the 19x19 ladder in which I’ve been for longer, I have opponents I have met several times, and we have cool exchanges. Actually the ladder is the true neverending story, no one is wondering how long it will last.
“Remember Lys? You can’t find it anymore, because the forum software has been switched twice since, but that nice guy provided stats for roughly the first two decades”
