For the past 7+ days, I've written a travel-like series of posts, to match my New Year's vacation and inability to get involved with my regular topics.
It is just that, a digression, but maybe there will be others in the future to break the monotony of the same type of subjects.
While I consider my regular topics important, I believe they are sometimes in abundance on Steem and in my own writing, and I feel a break of the pattern is necessary.
Here are the posts of this little travel digression, which also have some food and motor spice in them:
Hotel or Airbnb: What do you prefer?
Recovering after the unslept night
A tour of force
The Arch of Hadrian
A different Athens
Quiet Day
Last visiting day of Athens
The Hellenic Motor Museum in Athens
Before I wrap up this series, let's see some
Advantages Taking a Vacation to Visit a City Off-Season or On-Season
In Athens, winter is off-season. This was a last minute decision, but generally there is a reason why you'd prefer to go off- or on-season.
Off-season advantages:
- it's less crowded
- on popular locations there is a shorter line and you have time and space to take pictures
- it's often less expensive than during on-season
- if on-season weather is too hot or hot and wet, you can take your chances off-season (you can end up with a bad weather, but if that is not usually extreme and you are ok with this possibility, you might prefer it to the 'too hot' alternative)
On-season advantages:
- everything is open and ready for tourists
- weather is on average the best for most tourists
- on some locations or for some purposes you simply don't go off-season (like why would you go to the beach on freezing weather?)