The US is *terrible* for holidays, from what I've gathered. Here in the UK I would guess 22 days are the average. I'm on 22 and I get the option to buy 2 more day's holiday, which I always take. Don't really understand you folks on the list that hardly get any holiday and then don't take your full allowance... Maybe you just have really really ace and relaxed jobs?

As far as I'm aware 'vacation' is mainly US-English, whereas 'holiday' is the English term for it.

Europe does a little better than the UK, at least northern Europe and countries like France. France even have a bit of a summer shut-down where everyone disappears to their homes in the south of France - nice.