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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WONDER YEARS (ABC, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. EST). A twelve-year-old grapples with Viet Nam, young love and junior-high bullies during the 1960s in this wistful and often winning series...
...anymore. For many Americans, each summer holiday reaffirms that traveling during peak season is increasingly a flawed experience. Too often it means paying more and seeing less, fighting crowds and missing any sense of a country's way of life. Having sweltered through Athens in August and endured Britain's roads in July, tourists are finally realizing why the first mark of seasoned travelers is the season in which they travel...
...lower off-season. The trade-off, of course, comes in weather that ranges from unpredictable to appalling. While some resort towns remain mild well into the fall, northern cities turn gray and damp, and a visit requires a victory of mind over weather. The great galleries and cathedrals are often hushed and wonderfully solitary, but walking between them can be discouraging on a drizzly afternoon. The secret, explains the experienced traveler, is to visit places that all but the rottenest weather cannot spoil...
Winter travelers also cheerfully trade economy for convenience, since hotel rooms are often cheaper, but they may be harder to find as well. In regions thick with monuments, such as France's Loire valley, many hoteliers close in the off-season because they work so hard during the peak. In Italy winter travelers may find themselves staying in smaller towns or private homes, at a vineyard, a farm, in flavorful places where the local economy survives without a constant stream of tour buses. For those seeking greater amenities, the grand hotels rarely shut and are more likely to have...
...pack an umbrella and waterproof shoes -- but it may just turn out that they aren't needed after all. There are few pleasures greater than Indian summer in November or a pale, warm winter week after Christmas in which to savor the sights that in summer are all too often lost...