HOLIDAY travel book: OFF SEASON. Off-season makes you happy - the best destinations and times for traveling against the flow. Often underestimated travel times offer new perspectives, when wafts of fog envelop Venice in an unreal twilight, when the golden October makes the valleys of South Tyrol glow, when you can escape the cold and wet February by escaping to the Caribbean, which is wonderfully untouristy at this time, then it's the perfect time to travel.