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• Hydra, Greece: An Accidental Hike to the Monastery on Mount Eros

  By Julie Callahan on November 6, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  How we ended up at the Prophet Elias Monastery on the top of Mount Eros is still a mystery. As we crossed from Athens to Hydra by ferry, our boat tossed about like a cork in a typhoon while attendants… Read More ›

• What I learned at TBEX Athens and my writing class with David Farley

  By Julie Callahan on October 31, 2014 • ( 18 )

  

  Last week, Pat and I attended a convention in Athens, the Travel Bloggers Exchange, or TBEX. I divided the sessions between us according to our interests. Pat, realizing where this was headed, conceded, “Julie, just tell me where to go.”… Read More ›

• Why Eger means so much to Hungarians: Geza Gardonyi’s The Eclipse of the Crescent Moon

  By Julie Callahan on October 16, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Mention Eger to a Hungarian and expect some amount of fawning, “You’ll love it, make sure you visit the castle.” My friend, Szabi, told me, “Julie, if you are going to Eger, you must read The Eclipse of the Crescent… Read More ›

• Barnabás Fehér – The Keeper of the Mád Synagogue: Nearly 70 years later, a Catholic man honors his murdered Jewish friends

  By Julie Callahan on October 12, 2014 • ( 8 )

  

  Barnabás Fehér was napping on his outdoor swing as we approached his home for our appointment to visit the synagogue. A cluster of fruit trees shaded him. Come late summer, these trees will produce a harvest from which he augments… Read More ›

• The Characters of Mád, Hungary

  By Julie Callahan on October 7, 2014 • ( 11 )

  

  Mád, Hungary is little more than a dab on the eastern Hungarian landscape – a tiny town among hundreds of time worn villages sprinkled across rural Hungary. We came to Mád to visit the beautiful and distinctive baroque synagogue. Little… Read More ›