Melbourne: diverse, affordable, laid back, great food for cheap.

  I really felt at home in Melbourne. It’s the kind of place I could easily see myself living long term. It’s everything that you could want in a city: diverse, affordable, laid back, young, inclusive, a great food scene…

Discovering San Francisco: dive bars, red meat, strips clubs, and martinis.

  By the time I first made it to Haight-Ashbury the only hippies left were crusty gutter punks yelling at the tourists from their cardboard sidewalk guesthouses. A jangle of extremes. A mix of cultures, tempered by the past, with…

Bitterballen, hotchpotch stampot, jenever, and haring. Hunting down traditional Dutch food in Amsterdam.

Honestly, when it comes to northern European food, I hadn’t heard good things. But I have to say I fell in love with traditional Dutch food. Tasty bar snacks, hearty home-style meals with long simmered meats, a variety of cured…

From trdelnĂ­ky to goulash: the hunt for traditional Czech food in Prague.

                              Umodre Kachnicky Restaurant specializing in duck. I chose the tasting menu.                 The Hemingway Bar   The Chili…