There is nothing like going on short refreshing trips over the long weekends. In 2012, your long weekends can be really long. There are lot of public holidays which are either on a Tuesday or a Thursday in 2012. So if you take a day off on Monday or Friday you can enjoy a long four day weekend.

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Following holidays are on Thursday in 2012:
Republic day – 26-Jan
Holi – 8-Mar
Raksha Bandhan – 2-Aug

Following holidays are on Tuesday in 2012:
Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti – 2-Oct
Diwali – 13-Nov
Christmas – 25-Dec

So if you take a holiday on 27th January, which is Friday, you will be able to enjoy a weekend of four days. So you get 4 days of holiday by taking one day off. Similary for all the public holidays mentioned above you can get 24 days of holiday by taking only 6 leaves. Also, there are currently great offers running like 30% cashback on domestic flights on Cleartrip.

All of these dates might not be a holiday for you, but whichever is you can extend it to four days. Do you think you will be going some place on these weekends? Leave your comment below.