Vatican Update
Alright, a little bit of progress has been made, for those of you holding your breath regarding my Vatican adventures. I’m trying to steer away from any illicit entering of the city, so I’ve been exploring more lawful ways of getting in and seeing as much as I can.
I’ve been asking my professors and people I’ve met who live here if they’ve ever been in Vatican City, and if so, how. And I got lucky when I recently asked my English teacher if she’d ever been in the Vatican, and she said that she actually had gone on a tour a couple of weeks ago that took her through more of the Vatican than she’d ever seen before. I immediately asked for details.
Apparently, there’s a recently opened archeological tour of a necropolis (city of the dead/ burial site), and that in going to the sites on the tour, you get to walk through a good portion of the secretive Vatican City. So, my professor emailed me the information about how to make a reservation, and I’ll hopefully be embarking on this tour with my sister in early December! I can’t wait!
Btw, a funny little fact about the Vatican…it has its own bank, and the bank’s ATMs are the only in the world where Latin is a language option for when you make a transaction!
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