In Japan, we have consecutive national holidays that are so-called "Golden Week", which runs from the end of April to the beginning of May every year.
If you are lucky, you can have a nine-day-straight holiday.

Why we call it Golden Week?
After the National Holidays Law was brought into effect in 1948, the number of people who went to see movies at theaters was increased during this holiday week. So, the owners of movie theaters started to call this week "Golden Week", which meant "supremely wonderful week".
Since then, this word has become popular and now everybody uses it.

This year 2009, we have another five consecutive national holidays in September, which we call "Silver Week".

Sep 19th: Saturday
Sep 20th: Sunday
Sep 21st: Respect-for-Senior-Citizens Day
Sep 22nd: National Holiday
Sep 23rd: Autumnal Equinox Day

Not as supreme as Gold, but Silver is still wonderful.

Trinity will be closed from Sep 19th till Sep 23rd, and we will be back again on Sep 24th.