403 Off Season Travel

With high tourist numbers in some popular places making travel less enjoyable, it only makes sense that there's an increased interest in off season travel. Choosing a shoulder or off peak time to travel makes sense for so many reasons to me, and it's often when you'll have the much better experiences all round! Last year, my son and I enjoyed an off season trip to Seoul, South Korea so thoroughly that we're trying the same time of year for a Tokyo visit soon. In this episode, I talk with three people who also have been converted to the off season way. First up, Riana Ann-Canning describes a trip to France in chilly (or was it?!) February which exceeded all expectations; Mathi Thayanan then explains the benefits of visiting Sri Lanka at non-peak times of year; finally, Theodora Chatzipavlidis tells me how she accidentally discovered how much she likes travelling in the off season when she ended up touring parts of Europe during the ultimate off season of Covid! Links: Riana Ang-Canning - https://teaspoonofadventure.com/ Mathi Thayanan’s business in Sri Lanka, The Curious Experience - https://thecuriousexperience.com/ Theodora Chatzipavlidis’s app Velout - https://www.velout.app Episode 378 Seoul Trip Report: Spontaneous Budget Travel to South Korea notaballerina.com/378 Join our Facebook group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thoughtfultravellers Join our LinkedIn group for Thoughtful Travellers - https://notaballerina.com/linkedin Sign up for the Thoughtful Travellers newsletter at Substack - https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com Show notes: https://notaballerina.com/403 Support the show: https://thoughtfultravel.substack.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.