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Navigating Europe in the digital age

Exploring the Louvre without your nose stuck in a guidebook can be a freeing experience.Devices such as iPads, ebooks are taking a bite out of postcards, paper books and maps, and changing the way we travel. By Rick Steves


Italy seeks private sponsors to restore Colosseum
Italian officials are seeking to raise some €25 million (about $32 million) in private money to finance the restoration of one of the country's iconic landmarks: the Colosseum.

London takes its food scene underground

Guests enjoy a supper club gathering at the home of Luiz Hara of The London Foodie, in Islington north London. Supper clubs, which grew from a handful a year ago to close to 100 today, are becoming a favored way for London hipsters to satisfy their exacting palates.


Communing with nature in Austria's Hallstatt

The good ship Stefanie shuttles travelers back and forth between Hallstatt's train station and the old town center.Hallstatt, Austria is "Sound of Music" country — idyllic and majestic, but not rugged, a gentle land where lakes and mountains are shuffled together like a game of 52-card pick-up.


Tropical fun and sun in heart of Paris

People enjoy the sun as Sand, palm trees, bikinis. Parisians can get their tropical fix without ever leaving the French capital.


Austrian beer fest: Get your lederhosen on

The annual beer fest in Altaussee, Austria, is a big hit with young and old alike. Just be sure you're wearing traditional garb.Dirndls, lederhosen, an oom-pah-pah band and beer: It doesn't get more traditional than this when the sleepy Austrian village of Altaussee wakes up for a nonstop beer party, Sept. 4-6.


When you know where to look, Venice delivers

If the tide is too high, tourists have to walk on wooden platforms in Venice's St. Mark's Square.When you know where to look, there's so much to see in Venice. The "Bride of the Sea" offers history and beauty, but its flooding makes its future uncertain. By Rick Steves


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