New contest offers free trip to Europe

Every few months,

VisitEurope.com

sends out a newsletter (you can sign up for it on the site's homepage) with activity ideas, places to stay, and reasons to visit a variety of featured countries in Europe. Over time, I've started looking forward to receiving these emails, because they often include under-the-radar local experiences that you simply won't find in a guidebook.

The

theme this time is art

, and I learned about

museum expansions in Spain

,

architecture in Turkey

, and

opera in Norway

. There's also information about a

contest for free trips to Europe

.