Where do you go to get inspired?

Claude Monet had only to step into his garden to find what he wanted to paint.

Instead of just organizing a bouquet or organizing a still life,

he organized a whole garden that would have the colors that sang for him.

Coming up, an artist to help restore the famous gardens at Jeverny tells us about Monet's passion.

Or Waka Beach in Brittany to experience a N very magical surreal thing because the first the sunlight is blowing through it and it's lit up like a crystal cavern.

We'll hear how life can take a turn for the wild when you turn an old farmhouse in

France into your home and three Americans who married Italians tell us how they adjusted to

settling in in Italy. It was expected that a three-course meal was going to be on the

table every day. Let's share the romance and the beauty in the travel field hour ahead. It's Travel with

Rick Steves.

We're looking at the places and the people we love today on Travel with Rick Steves.

We'll hear the stories of three American women whose European travels resulted in

the ultimate souvenir, a husband and a new life in Italy.

We'll also hear how an American family almost got in over their heads

when they fell in love with a rugged little island off the coast of France

and bought a house there.

Don Wallace tells us how his neighbors helped his family restore more than just a building.

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Let's start with a look at the intimate gardens that impressionist painter Claude Monet created around the end of the 19th century at his house in Jevarnie.

Elizabeth Murray is a gardener and an artist from the Monterrey Bay Area in California.

She volunteered nearly a year of her life to help restore the gardens in 1985.

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