Bacon is Magic

A midlife travel blog that finds where locals eat and how to live abroad.

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Written By

Ayngelina Brogan and Alan (with contributors Rease Kirchner, Ryan Osborne, Rhun)

Travellers

Couple

Focus

Food

Popularity

48 / 100

Running Since

2013

Posts

765

Every few weeks

Last Updated

Oct 2026

About Bacon is Magic

Ayngelina Brogan left an advertising career for a one-way ticket to Mexico and turned solo travel into a full-time life as a traveler, writer and YouTuber. She and her partner Alan travel as a couple, spending long stays to document what it is actually like to live and eat abroad. The site has over 760 posts since 2013 and attracts a large monthly audience. Bacon is Magic treats food as culture, prioritizes traditional, immigrant-owned and women-run kitchens, and publishes practical guides on where locals eat, etiquette, tipping, safety and living costs. Posts are photo-rich and include occasional videos.

If you want to eat your way through a city like a knowledgeable local, this site reads like a friendly food anthropologist. The tone in the long excerpt is pragmatic and pleasantly plain-spoken, working through trip math and real travel tradeoffs rather than sentimental travelogue. You get multi-thousand-word deep dives, concrete how-tos for ordering, tipping and safety, and long lists of essential local dishes and recipes. The writing is best for planning food-focused weekends or longer slow-travel stints where you care about living costs and real neighbourhood spots. The site is steady, publishing a few new, substantial posts most months and supporting its guides with photos and video.