It's not golden, but at least it's silver

This week, Japan is lucky enough to be in a year when the so-called "silver week" occurs, when the stars are perfectly aligned and "respect for the elderly" day and the "autumn equinox" day come with just one day in between resulting in that we get that day off too. So, from Monday to Wednesday Japan this week Japan is enjoying a little holiday, resulting of course, in the regular insanity on the roads and in the airports since Japan insist on everyone taking vacation at exactly the same time making sure that wherever you go is extremely crowded.

The Sunshine-Salaryman household was actually thinking of taking a trip outside Japan this time but some quick research into tickets to places we could consider going to quickly set us straight since basically everything was fully booked and if it wasn't, it was at least twice the price you would normally expect to pay...

Considering that Japan is now finally moving out of the summer heat and into the much cooler and nicer autumn Japan is not that bad place to be, all things considered, so we decided to stay localized to the islands of Japan this time even though the next time the stars and holidays will line up accordingly will be in six years time...

One of the good things though is that since there exists a "golden week" and a "silver week" I suspect that there is one, even more amazing, "platinum week" that I have yet to discovered but just thinking of the possible amount of vacation in such a week just makes my head dizzy...