Renting a reasonably priced apartment in the part of a town that is most interesting for us to explore is one of the primary principles we follow for living like a local in Europe. Importantly, it makes...

We get it.  One of the reasons you go on vacation is to escape the drudgery of cooking your own meals. With many nice, non-touristy restaurants serving local cuisine in your live-like-a-local town,...

Buying bread from a man in Brussels — he was six-foot-four and full of muscle. I said, “Do you speak-ah my language?” He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich. Actually, we’ve never...