Oh, and I bought the cable with Apple Pay. I may stop travelling with an Apple TV. Given my connectivity woes, I never bothered to hook up the Apple TV I brought in the hopes of watching Netflix or HBO GO from our rentals. Maybe next time I’ll just bring an HDMI cable and a Lightining-to-HDMI adapter to attach to my iPad. Or maybe I won’t bother at all, since my 12.9-inch iPad screen was big enough for at least a two-person “Game of Thrones” viewing party. Yelp is helpful, but Yelp reviewers are bad. I’ve mocked the reviewers on the book-review site GoodReads before-their reviews are often hilariously focused on the reviewer’s own lives and their descriptions of their own review philosophy, rather than focusing on the books themselves. Look, I’ve been reading and writing reviews for a couple of decades, so I know that it can be a hard job and all that throat-clearing and focus on meta issues happens to every new reviewer.

So what if you don’t have any dollars or days saved up for a vacation? Savvy travelers know there are many ways to travel for free or even get paid to travel. You could review a five-star hotel! Deliver a vintage car to California! Deliver a yacht to the Bahamas! These are just some of the ways we’ve identified that you can live the dream. Earn $1.50 per review. The raw amateur looking to get paid to travel may consider writing reviews for a cooperative website. You won’t break even — expect to lose several hundred dollars on that 5-star hotel review — but there’s no reason not to grab a bit of cash back. Room and board are covered. Green thumb travelers may work a few hours a day on participating farms in exchange for accommodation, home-cooked food, and a great way to see the land. Although the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms does not pay for travel costs, WOOFers don’t mind hiking or hitching a ride.

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For more information on off-season travel see my article on Winter in Greece and also the new Off-Season Travel in Greece which has some winter itineraries and links to more info. Oh yes, and be sure to read about Skiing in Greece. Many people have discovered that the Christmas holidays in Greece is a great time to be there, with low rates on hotels and the weather is usually a lot nicer than wherever it is they have come from. Many days it is warm enough to dine outdoors. It is a great time to be in Athens and visit the archaeological sites and nearby islands and Athens nightlife in my opinion is among the best in the world. Read about my Christmas in Greece. Flights are usually cheaper than in the summer and there are several Easter packages which enable you to experience the week of Easter with Greek families, seeing the ceremonies and in the end roasting a lamb and celebrating the resurrection.

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