I'm sitting in the railway station, got a ticket for my destination

[katealaurel]

So I'm in Rome, which simultaneously feels utterly normal and familiar and incomprehensibly strange. My Italian has come back easily (though I have to override the urge to say 'hi' and 'thank you' in Greek, those being the two phrases I used most commonly), and I feel as comfortable in the city as I ever have-- a little more, in some ways, since I

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[eavanmoore]

The funny thing is, it's entirely likely that you'll have an intense sense of homecoming in just a few days. Home is one of the most flexible notions I know. It is, of course, rivaled by love. Or maybe it's just a form of love.

Now I'm wondering why there aren't more feminist women-only hostels. Women travel alone in other countries, too.