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• Market Day…

  By Julie Callahan on April 21, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  In Budapest, the main market hall overflows with fruits, vegetables, meat, paprika, and tourists.  This historic building should be on everyone’s list of things to see.  It is a mix of Hungarian farmers mingled amongst paprika retailers selling the ubiquitous… Read More ›

• Life in the Empire

  By Julie Callahan on April 14, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  When we announced our intention to move to Bratislava, the first question everyone asked was “why?”  Why, at a phase of life when we might buy a beach house or mountain retreat, why during an age where we could slow… Read More ›

• The Joys of Small Store Shopping

  By Julie Callahan on April 7, 2013 • ( 13 )

  

  Back home, in the United States, I can buy everything on my shopping list in one stop: bread, lettuce, sunglasses, lawn mower, crutches, paint and car battery.  Largely, that’s a reflection of where I live – in the bosom of… Read More ›

• A Most Ironic Weekend

  By Julie Callahan on March 31, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Last weekend my Saturday and Sunday were juxtaposed on either side of one of the most contentious debates in modern Europe: what to do about the “Roma problem”.    Saturday morning I met a new friend for coffee.   It turns out… Read More ›

• A reflection of my time in Slovakia

  By Julie Callahan on March 28, 2013 • ( 2 )

  For those of you who follow this blog, “thank you.”. (And for those others who stumbled here, welcome!). Below is a link to a piece I wrote reflecting on our time in Slovakia.  It’s for an expats blog site as… Read More ›