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One thing Europe does flat-out better than America is public space. Whether you’re standing in a platz, a plaza, or a piazza, you have a place where you can gather, hang out, people-watch, grab some local food, and probably listen to some live music or watch a street performer. Europe’s beautiful public spaces are full [...]

You won’t be surprised to hear that Rome is a great place to go shopping. With everything from the major stores of top designers to cool second-hand shops and open-air markets, Rome is a great place to find distinctive pieces for any wardrobe. Unfortunately, like so many European cities, Rome’s great shopping is often [...]

The winter weather never gets really inclement in Italy. Sure, it rains in the winter. Sometimes it even rains a lot, like last winter when incessant downpours combined with snow-melt in the Italian Alps created an impressive – and destructive – Tiber flood. But compared to the winter disasters of northern Europe, Italy stays downright [...]

For anyone who visited the Eternal City two or more years ago, it will come as a shock that you now have to pay to enter the Roman Forum. This isn’t exactly breaking news – the site was already closed to the non-paying public when I passed through Rome a year ago. But if you’re [...]

An interview with a professional volleyball player currently playing in Klagenfurt, Austria.

A list of the Top 5 free New Year’s Eve Celebrations in Europe

Scammed in Rome by a dancing Mickey Mouse.

Rome is full of beautiful museums: the Vatican, the Villa Borghese, and the Villa Giulia, not to mention the modern art museum and dozens of smaller and more specific museums scattered around the city. Still, if I had to choose only one museum to visit during my stay in Rome, it would be the Capitoline [...]

The Vatican Museum is one of the most famous art collections in the world, with masterpieces from huge names including Raphael and Michelangelo. With everything from ancient Roman sculpture to the Raphael Rooms to Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel there is a seemingly never-ending set of exhibits. It is the Vatican Museum that is the pride and [...]

If you’re looking for a hot place to ring in 2010, you couldn’t do better than Rome. The warm weather makes thronging through the streets a pleasure, and New Year’s Eve – or Capodanno in Italian – is a big deal in the Eternal City, with lots of free fun and a serious, city-wide party. [...]