travel tips

There’s a lot of talk about traveling off the beaten track, but how do you get to places that are often only frequented by locals? I’m not just talking about remote destinations, but also places in the most touristy destinations, like Paris, London or New York. The issue extends even to destinations within our own country. There’s more to it than museums, monuments or the so-called “POI – points of interest”: there are, for example, the trendy restaurants and cafés, those small, secluded concert halls, the local grocery store. Not forgetting the tourist circuits which, of course, can be very interesting, but are sometimes so crowded, or so “manufactured”, that we lose the sense of local culture.