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• The Stations of the Cross: Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia

  By Julie Callahan on July 17, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Last week, I noticed my Facebook page photo is different from my standard social media picture. As I looked at it, I recalled Ryan’s words, “Hey mom, you need a new picture – don’t use one from work, OK? Take… Read More ›

• Mad, Hungary: A Wine Tasting at Budahazy Pince

  By Julie Callahan on July 9, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Several weeks ago, we ate the most perfect lunch in Mad, Hungary at the Budahazy Pince vineyard, feasting on perhaps a dozen varieties of greens organically grown in the back yard, picked fresh, and then drizzled with lemon, olive oil… Read More ›

• The Tokaj Museum – Tokaj, Hungary

  By Julie Callahan on July 5, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Every backwater town opens a museum it seems, and often with the same recipe – preserve a historically significant building and then fill it with 700 years of keepsakes previously stashed in a dozen attics across town. Tokaj, Hungary is… Read More ›

• America, Win or lose, will grown men cry? Because that is futbol!!

  By Julie Callahan on July 3, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  During this World Cup, I keep reading that Americans have embraced soccer, turned ourselves into a country of World Cup crazies. Still, I think of our young soccer stars dashing to practice between violin rehearsal and chess club. Soccer, in… Read More ›

• A weekend in Tokaj, Hungary in pursuit of wine

  By Julie Callahan on June 29, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  A series of small wine making villages dot the perimeter of the hills in the Tokaj region, each as charming as the next – pastel plaster homes, tiled roofs, and a lone church steeple peeking above the tree tops from… Read More ›