The World In Between

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• 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 ›

• Three Years Abroad – Our Anniversary of Moving to Central Europe

  By Julie Callahan on September 22, 2014 • ( 8 )

  

  Three years ago, on September 22nd, our flight touched down in Vienna. With four suitcases between us, the driver met us at the airport and whisked us away to Bratislava, Slovakia – our new home. Pat was particularly excited. He… Read More ›

• The Curse of a Wanderlust Soul

  By Julie Callahan on September 19, 2014 • ( 8 )

  

  Staying put doesn’t come naturally to me. I don’t view this as a blessing or a curse, just a fact – similar to the facts that I have green eyes, I’m tall, and I sleep with the Thomas Cook European… Read More ›

• At 56, I Decide It’s Time to Retire

  By Julie Callahan on September 13, 2014 • ( 11 )

  

  Pat and I finally went to Lake Balaton this weekend. You can’t live in Hungary and not vacation at the holiest of Hungarian vacation destinations. When our friends ask, “Have you been to Balaton yet?” “Have you seen The Balaton?”… Read More ›

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