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Shacking Up in a Convent in Vatican City

Is there really no place like Rome? This week Ellen Wernecke chronicles her first visit to the Eternal City.

I mentioned yesterday that I spent one night away from the hostel-packed neighborhood of Termini, a move that led me to the cheapest and nicest accommodations of the trip, even though I had to abide by a curfew to take them. Plus, it was my first time ever staying on an international boundary line! If only that boundary wasn't so depressingly porous -- no one even bothered to check my passport.

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