Camping during Golden Week

Lake Biwa at Sunrise
Originally uploaded by robizumi.

Golden Week is a series of public holidays here in Japan. The Japanese don't really understand how to take it easy so right smack dab in the middle of the week are two work days. So it could be this huge great vacation but instead they are two smaller vacations with an insultingly short work week in the middle.

All that being said, we went to Shiga prefecture for camping. We snuggled right next to Biwako the largest lake in Japan. It was pretty big. We walked around, enjoyed nature, and tried not to do a whole lot. There were hawks picking up spawing fish out of the stream right next to us. There were people with dogs every where. It was a nice time. We managed to make some steak fajitas and get some hot sparkler action in.