About: Susan Spano

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http://travel.latimes.com

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Susan Spano has been writing columns, cover stories and blogging about travel for "The Los Angeles Times" since 1997. She spent five months in 2007 studying Mandarin in Beijing and lived in Paris for three years before that. Now she lives in Rome, eats pasta daily and files reports chiefly about travel in Europe.

• The ultimate shoe store opens at Galeries Lafayette in Paris (07 Oct 2009)
• ‘Julie & Julia’ foodie tour of France (06 Oct 2009)
• Venetian painters at the Louvre Museum in Paris (04 Oct 2009)
• $5-million settlement reached in lawsuit over flash-flood tragedy at national park in Hawaii (03 Oct 2009)
• Do drink the water in Venice (28 Sep 2009)
• Shop ’til you drop with National Geographic in London (25 Sep 2009)
• Air France to auction off seats on its first A380 flights between Paris and New York (08 Sep 2009)
• Holland meets Japan, 2009 (06 Sep 2009)
• Under the Blue Flag: Clean beaches in 39 countries around the world (03 Sep 2009)
• Travel the world with bookstores in London, Paris, Rome (02 Sep 2009)