{"id":65734,"date":"2026-07-23T12:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/65734\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:59:06","slug":"vacation-nation-preparing-for-a-french-summer-holiday-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/65734\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation nation: Preparing for a French summer holiday \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Vacation nation: Preparing for a French summer holiday \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_1xy-gUDqM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nVacation nation: Preparing for a French summer holiday \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWith a minimum of 30 days of paid leave per year, French people have the reputation of being on vacation all the time. During the summer months of July and August, the country virtually shuts down. So what&#8217;s behind this phenomenon? And what do they do with all those cherished &#8220;cong\u00e9s pay\u00e9s&#8221;? We take a closer look.<br \/>\n#france #summer #holiday<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this story in our article: https:\/\/f24.my\/C4TH.y<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vacation nation: Preparing for a French summer holiday \u2022 FRANCE 24 English With a minimum of 30 days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[55377,50,22,23,20,21,34454,4266,6796,17426,4316],"class_list":["post-65734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-august","tag-france","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-july","tag-kids","tag-summer","tag-vacation","tag-work"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116969452673945937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}