I am taking a week off work in Dahab, Egypt. It must be off-season, because most of the hotels and restaurants are empty, but it seems to have similar advantage

I am taking a week off work in Dahab, Egypt. It must be off-season, because most of the hotels and restaurants are empty, but it seems to have similar advantages. It's very inexpensive, a sizable semi-permanent population of foreigners, on the sea with good snorkeling and interesting places to walk nearby. There are very cheap flights from Europe to Eilat, Israel, although the Israelis charge you $25 USD as you leave over the land border. Actually I was thinking of setting up a kind of very inexpensive live-in hackerspace, in the Ukraine perhaps, with workshops for metalwork, electronics etc. and a live-in fabricator. You could live there, study, work on projects, help others.