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• Salzburg Austria and the Music Festival

  By Julie Callahan on August 5, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  When our friends, Syd and Debi, asked us to join them in Salzburg – where Debi and her choir were performing in the Salzburg Music Festival – we jumped on the offer.   Salzburg is on my short list of places… Read More ›

• Life Transitions

  By Julie Callahan on July 30, 2012 • ( 1 )

  We’re homeless. In the stroke or two or three of a pen, our home went from us to a nice young family–a new baby, maybe a puppy down the road. I’m sure they told their friends they bought it from an “elderly… Read More ›

• 3 Days in Budapest – Breakfast included…

  By Julie Callahan on July 21, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Budapest is a city of palaces, cathedrals and synagogues, coffee houses and squares, a gilded Opera House and 500-year-old Turkish baths.  It’s one of the loveliest cities in Europe, especially when seen from the banks of the Danube at night. … Read More ›

• 3 Days in Prague… on and off the beaten path…

  By Julie Callahan on July 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The Prague skyline evoked a gasp as did our drink tab on the Old Town square.  That’s the paradox of Prague.  It’s a menage of tourist rip offs and heart stopping scenery, mind-blowing crowds and cobble stoned medieval streets.  In… Read More ›

• The Main Square: Old Town Bratislava

  By Julie Callahan on July 8, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  “Meet me at the square”.  It’s the living room of Central Europe.  Here towns were built around the main square.  Bratislava is no exception.  The main square in Old Town Bratislava hosts the music festivals of summer and the Christmas… Read More ›