[kapep]

It is obvious that "do what the locals do" should not be taken literally, because locals are likely working most of the day. So the authors actual advice seems to be "avoid what the locals do, when they don't want to do anything". Everyone else likely interprets it as "do what the locals do, when they want to have fun" which is good advice.

My daily routines are of no interest to tourist. They are probably similar to their own routines at home anyway. When I got out on the weekends it can get wild though and I'd wager it's exactly what many tourists are looking for.

[throwaway894345]

Yeah, I felt this was obvious as well. I like to "do what the locals do" when I travel, but by that I don't mean work during the weekdays of my vacation or spring clean an apartment. And if I say "do what the locals do" no one else would think I mean that I worked or did house chores.

[techblueberry]

One of my favorite trips was a business trip to Barcelona. Worked during the day in a unique office with folks I didn’t get to work in person a lot, toured an 800 year old church I passed waking back to the hotel.

Im sure im an outlier but one of my favorite things to do is literally “do what the locals do”