La Toussaint

All Saints day is a public holiday in France, held on 1st November. It normally lands in the middle of the two week school half term break which this year runs from 23rd October to 8th November. La Toussaint is a day to celebrate all the saints, especially the lesser known ones. Many people in France will take time to visit cemeteries and decorate with fresh flowers the graves and memorials of deceased relatives. So all across France they are selling masses of chrysanthemum plants. Our local cemetery is looking extremely colourful, a real contrast against the grey stone and marble.