You'd be surprised by how much they've been reinventing the city of Bristol.

England's industrial-age powerhouse is refashioning itself into a ship-shaped cultural center for the southwest of England.

It's a really walkable city, but you can also use our ferries if you want to get your feet onto the water as well.

In northeastern Spain, Barcelona is getting a reputation for being just too popular to handle the demand.

To escape the crowds of cruise ship tourists, a local friend can clue you into the neighborhoods

where the welcome's still warm and the atmosphere untrampled.

We always can find some of those narrow streets and beautiful areas that you can enjoy.

Or wander through the fairy tale setting of Bruges.

It's long been a favorite place to taste the old world pleasures of Belgium and sample

its traditions.

Every Belgian beer has to be drunk from a specific glass.

Let's explore Bristol, Barcelona, and brooves in the hour ahead.

It's Travel with Rick Steves.

We're profiling three distinct styles of European cities today on Travel with Rick Steves.

We'll hear how the Catalan culture and Gaudi's groundbreaking architecture

conspire to make Barcelona and its

Mediterranean setting almost too popular for its population to handle. And we'll check how cobbled

streets and medieval buildings, reflecting in glassy canals, have long given bruges an atmosphere

that makes it a tourist favorite and a cultural center for Western Belgium. Let's start the hour

with a city that may be more

of a surprise. Bristol in England. It was an industrial-age powerhouse, and it's the largest city

in the southwest. The River Avon flows in from its elegant neighbor of bath before emptying

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