One purpose of holidays is to give us rest. Rest from our work. Rest from school. Rest from the routine we live in. Holidays are to give us something different, so that we can have a break — so that we can rest.

These days, by this time, we might need something different. After 18 months of one lockdown after another, it is glorious to be able to go out again — to see people, to eat at a restaurant, to travel farther than 2 or even 5 kilometers from one’s own house.

But it seems people are working very hard at their resting.