Time away from work, sure, but it's only relatively a holiday

Sure, you spent two weeks laying by the beach in perfect sunny weather without a single email notification. Our regular columnist Molly Quell wants to rename the ‘family vacation’ to something more accurate. But if you delineate the definition around those parameters, parental leave, chemotherapy and funerals would all count as a ‘vacation.’ And no one, not even the Americans, consider that non-working time a holiday. If a couple spends one week with one side of the family, one week with the other of the family, plus a few days here and there to attend Grant Aunt Tilda’s birthday party and get your garden ready for winter, you basically end up with a total of two weeks of proper holiday. I just want a new word to denote the difference between ‘a relaxing week away’ and ‘a week away with family.’ How about ‘relative holiday’ because it’s relatively close to a vacation, but not exactly the same?