On Jul 23, 2012, at 14:28, DRAGE, Keith (Keith) wrote: > you need to take into account at least both the Friday and Monday in some countries. +1 In much of Europe, the Easter holidays run from Good Friday to Easter Monday, and exhibit -- strong travel activity -- zero to reduced opening times of various essential facilities -- reduced public transport schedules (*) When meeting in Europe, avoid both weeks around Easter. (Clearly, we need to have IETF95 in Bali. :-) Grüße, Carsten (*) A bit counterintuitive -- the reason is that public transport agencies tend to cater to their employees as opposed to their customers, and these employees want to enjoy the holidays, too. Since everybody knows that public transport is overcrowded on these long weekends, there isn't even any backlash.