Japan Silver Week

Yesterday was the start of 5 consecutive days of public holiday for folks in Japan. The 5 days have been labeled "Silver Week" - the name derived from "Golden Week" which are another bunch of consecutive holidays in the middle of the year. We wont get a Silver Week until 2015 - due to a public holiday falling on a weekend.

Whenever there is a public holiday, we try to avoid going out as most of the time would be spent waiting in queues of people or cars - as you can see from the video below.

This photo was taken at Mc Dees where they are selling value meals for 390 yen for the duration of Silver Week.

When I lived in the US for a short while, I was shocked at the amount of public holidays that they didn't have while we get quite a few dotted throughout the year.
Do you have a decent amount of public holidays in your kingdom?