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• 10 Questions from New Nomads (Pt 1)

  By Julie Callahan on August 25, 2017 • ( 5 )

  A newly nomadic couple, half my age, asked me their top 10 questions on how to adjust to their new life and make it both do-able and sustainable. Here’s part one: the first 5…

• Mont Saint Michel, France

  By Julie Callahan on August 20, 2017 • ( 15 )

  

  Shortly before midnight, I crawled into bed and pulled the comforter up to my chin. The sea breeze billowed the curtains. Other than the drone of the wind and an occasional squawk from a gull, silence. Blackness finally erased an… Read More ›

• The Harbour Festival

  By Julie Callahan on August 11, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  For years, we vacationed in the village of Courtmacsherry, Ireland and each year we heard the same lament, “Too bad you can’t stay for the festival. It’s the best week to visit.” In my mind, I constructed a mental image:… Read More ›

• The Most Interesting Man in the World…

  By Julie Callahan on July 29, 2017 • ( 5 )

  Originally posted on The World In Between:
  The most interesting man in the world doesn’t star in beer commercials. Rather, he is an unassuming man who sat next to my husband and me at our favorite Paris bistro, Chez Janou.…

• By Train, Bus, and Foot: Sénanque Abbey

  By Julie Callahan on July 23, 2017 • ( 21 )

  

  For years, I’d admired photographs of the purple lavender fields in front of the stark-grey Notre-Dame de Sénanque, a Cistercian abbey in Provence. With our time in Paris dwindling, and with the lavender season a brief mid-summer event, if I… Read More ›