Whereas on holiday Barack Obama may pick up a golf club, or David Cameron a tennis racket, Mr Hollande, according to his partner, Valérie Trierweiler, spent his time replying to letters.
In weekday tours people prefer to decide on trip chain pattern prior to choosing travel mode, whereas in holiday tours travel mode is chosen first.
But whereas the holidays have become yet more expensive and high maintenance every year (£90 for a club ticket? £10,000 a week for a villa? £500 for a beach chair? Hey, it's Ibiza, yeah? Where everything is just so laidback and simple!), that bit of string on the wrist just gets nattier and knottier every year.
But before long newspapers were feasting on similar antics of the rich and celebrated, much as they feed today on the doings of the glitterati who descend on the Hamptons of New York's Long Island.Whereas Europeans increasingly consider holidays a right, Americans still largely view leisure time as a privilege.
Roache mentions the EU Working Time Directive which, among other things legislates for 20 days' holiday; whereas we have 28 days, including bank holidays, enshrined in British law.
These show that in 2009 the average American adult received about 13 days of holiday, whereas the average Briton enjoyed a luxurious 26.
It is called the "little" holiday, whereas Eid Al-Adha which is one day longer, is called the "big" holiday.
It is a festive, rich instrumentation for the holiday, whereas the previous two cantatas in Weimar had not employed brass instruments.
Whereas, like most musicians, Billie Holiday had partaken enthusiastically of gin and marijuana, she began to switch to heroin and cocaine, habits that coincided with a taste for abusive men.
Whereas any semi-political holiday makes us reflect on revolution and principle, and so has a hint of the reversal feast in it.
