AtD translation: the regular season was past

[Jochen Stremmel]

Yes, bathing season. Ostend was the Queen of Seaside Resorts by then.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ostend_Belgium_-_Queen_of_Seaside_Resorts.jpg
>From May to September.

Am So., 27. Juni 2021 um 14:27 Uhr schrieb Mike Jing <
gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> P549.39   It was October by now, the regular season was past and the
> breezes cool but not yet brisk enough to drive away pedestrians from the
> Digue, though Lindsay found it uncomfortable—“Far too desolate, one’s face
> grows itchy with the salt, one feels like Lot’s wife.”
>
> What does the "regular season" refer to here? Tourist season?
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