I find October/November before Thanksgiving to be the perfect time to travel. The crowds have thinned. Kids are usually in school. The prices are a bit cheaper too. So around this time, I usually get the hankering to hit the road.
And when I heard about Beer Trips on Lisa Morrison’s Beer O’Clock show, I really wanted to hop on a plane and visit a brewery in the old country without having to do the planning myself.
You can go to London, Prague, Bamberg or even Northern Italy for a tour. And they seem to be worth the money and they certainly have good recommendations from the press.