How to find off the beaten track things to do at your destination.

How to find off the beaten track things to do at your destination.: There is nothing like the feeling of escaping the maddening tourist crowds or finding that hidden gem when travelling. Sometimes these moments come just from stepping back from the crowd or are mixed with the excitement and sometimes anxiety of being lost in a foreign place. The feeling of viewing and experiencing something that others don't 'see' or that locals take for granted is one of the best feelings you can have. To shop where the locals shop, to sit in a park and watch the comings and goings of people, to have alone time with a Rubens or to discover an ancient place that is ignored by tourists is the greatest feeling one can have. For me this is the only way to travel. We live in a very connected world today. The rise of the internet means that we have access to so much information about the world. The frustrating part of this is that yes we can find information about our destination, but millions of others are viewing the same information. There is a plethora of infor