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...dungeon for dinner helps explain why Steves is the unchallenged Baedeker of his generation: he just works it harder than anyone else does. Over the past three decades, Steves, now 54, has written more than 30 European guidebooks, phrase books and travel companions. Walk from Rome's Campo dei Fiori to the Spanish Steps on any evening this summer and you will spy his blue-and-yellow books under countless arms. Last week, 10 of the 20 best-selling European travel books on Amazon.com had Steves' name on the cover. When he's not updating his guides, Steves gives speeches...
...past week at locations where previous occupants lost leases after seeing their business dwindle. But the owners of Small Plates Restaurant and Oggi say they can succeed where others have failed. Oggi, a cafe which specializes in pizzas, filled the space left by Italian restaurant Campo de Fiori in the Holyoke Center. Campo de Fiori, which similarly offered sandwiches and pizzas, closed after it lost its lease. Farther south on JFK Street, Small Plates Restaurant serves tapas bistro—but lacks the city license it needs to serve wine. The owner of Small Plates, Jerome R. Picca, said...
...Campo di Fiori, which served up Italian-themed sandwiches and pizza in the Holyoke Arcade, also closed over the summer...
...from the Pantheon, you can fuel up on the world's greatest espresso (and people watching) at Sant' Eustachio (Piazza Sant' Eustachio 82). Or walk around the market at Campo dei Fiori and the surrounding twisty streets, as well as the extremely lively Trastevere neighborhood...
...built 1844-48), the Temperate House (1860-99) and the 1986 Princess of Wales Conservatory (including Sun, above). They're made out of delicate flat or hollow pieces of hand-blown glass in a rainbow of colors, and are assembled on site. The display includes Chihuly's latest series, Fiori (Flowers), and two installations floating on the Palm House pond: Thames Skiff, a boat crowded with spikes, bulbs and shoots, and Walla Wallas, onion shapes floating in the water. Chihuly's sculpture just might inspire visitors to fill their window boxes in new ways. tel: (44-20) 8332 5655; www.kew.org.uk