Slow Travel Europe: Live Like a Local for Less on a Mid-Size Budget

Johnathan Kranz is a travel writer and editor who has spent more than a decade living and working across Europe on a mid-size budget. His approach is deliberately unglamorous: he rents apartments by the month, shops at local markets, walks more than he rides, and treats a neighborhood coffee shop as a second office. He has stayed put in more than forty European cities, from Lisbon to Ljubljana, and writes about the practical mechanics of long-term travel—housing, money, food, language, and community—rather than the checklist version of sightseeing.

His writing has appeared in travel and lifestyle publications, and his work focuses on helping ordinary travelers with real jobs and real budgets trade frantic itineraries for deeper, longer, more affordable experiences. *Slow Travel Europe: Live Like a Local for Less on a Mid-Size Budget* is his first full-length book, born from the conviction that the best way to see Europe is to stop seeing it in a hurry.

Kranz currently divides his time between a home base in the United States and long slow stays across Europe. When he is not packing a forty-liter bag, he is usually learning a new phrase, arguing with a barista about espresso, or planning the next city to call home for a month.