AtD translation: the regular season was past

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, Jochen.

On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 10:06 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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