Traditional & cost-effective budget lodgings and food

From our perspective, the local food on offer can make or break an extended travel agenda. If you have an adventurous palette, more often than not you’ll discover some amazing flavours and experience a diversity of unforgettable snacks and dishes. Here is a summary of our favourite eating establishments and best bites discovered to date.

Kuala Lumpur First Impressions – the delicious aromas of food…

Following a short transit through a decidedly chilly Holland and Belgium (see If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium), we were ready to take ...
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Inexpensive Rome Restaurants

Rome is like one giant restaurant. Every street seems to host a series of eateries tempting visitors with their delicious Italian kitchen aromas. In ...
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Istanbul Eateries and Accommodation

We would only have 2 nights and days in Istanbul. To optimize our time in the city, and to find the best Istanbul eateries, ...
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Valencia Eating Out? Eating Late is the Norm

For our 4-day trip to Valencia, we selected in advance a number of interesting restaurants with good reviews. The only problem was these restaurants ...
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Madrid Budget Break 💃 Where to Eat & What to Do

Our 9-day tour around the Canary Isles started and finished in Spain. We spent a few days at the beginning of the trip in ...
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Bland Filipino Food 🥢

Before we started this trip, from our research we gathered that there was no distinctive Filipino cuisine. From our actual experiences in the Philippines, ...
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Griller in Manila Shabu Shabu Self-Service

We tactically avoided a trip into Manila on our arrival in the Philippines, but opted to spend just a couple of days there before ...
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Booze in Bohol 🍺 Philippines

After spending 3 days in Pangangan we headed down south by bus to Panglao, and the celebrated Alona Beach. Along the way, we stopped off at ...
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Lembongan Island Eating Out

Your eating out options in Lembongan are plentiful enough. Every guesthouse offers a menu, and there's a good variety of standalone restaurants and warungs. During ...
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Gdańsk Poland Eating Out

With just 4 days to spend in the historic old town, we did a little preparation to ensure that our Gdansk Poland eating out ...
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Ubud Bali Eating Out – Favourite Warungs

With just 4 days in Ubud, we were keen to discover the best food that Bali has to offer. To this end, we did ...
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Karimunjawa Eating Out

Since Karimun town is quite a small place, you can't expect to find a great number or variety of eating establishments. Some guesthouses offer their ...
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The 10 Best-Value Pubs & Restaurants in Edinburgh

Edinburgh is a great place for pub food, but there are some pretty good restaurants too. Following several stays in the capital, here is our ...
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Galle Fort - Budget Accommodation Nightmares

Where to stay and eat in Galle Fort

From Unawatuna, we moved a few kilometers along the coast to Galle. Here, we planned to stay for 2 nights at a guesthouse located ...
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Girona City Stopover – Where to Stay & Eat

Our Girona city stopover allowed us just one night in Girona, before heading south to Barcelona-El Prat airport later the following day. We therefore needed a hotel ...
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Venice Osteria and Trattoria

Considering that Italy is pretty much one big restaurant, there’s never any difficulty finding somewhere to eat. Whether a Venice osteria and trattoria or ...
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