The World In Between

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• The Kindness of Strangers

  By Julie Callahan on June 19, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Blanche Dubois summarized my expat life best, “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” And so it is.  That random guardian angel who swoops in when I am most lost, confused, disconsolate.  With a nearly unnoticeable gesture they… Read More ›

• “We could kill a pig” and other team building ideas…

  By Julie Callahan on June 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  As the weather turns sunny and warm, we lunch outside.  Last week there was a group of us,  mostly Hungarians, a handful of Romanians, a French guy, and one other American, gathered around the picnic table.  Everyone was relaxed, the mood fostered by… Read More ›

• Marathons…

  By Julie Callahan on June 6, 2013 • ( 13 )

  In my dreams, I run marathons.  The closest I’ve come in real life is reading Runner’s World from cover to cover.  Then I glance through the marathon schedule in the index: Paris, London, Athens, Venice – in my dreams, I… Read More ›

• Vac, Hungary: The lesser known Danube Bend town

  By Julie Callahan on June 2, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  The Danube Bend is the area north of Budapest where the Danube River jogs abruptly left making a 90 degree turn as it heads west to Bratislava and Vienna.  Most tourists stay on the hilly Buda side of the river… Read More ›

• Finding fact from fiction…

  By Julie Callahan on May 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  I’m a sucker for a great bookstore.  At home bookstores are struggling for survival.  Here in Hungary, the English bookstores are plentiful – thank goodness.  You will find the ubiquitous commercial powerhouses: James Patterson, Jodi Piccoult, Sue Grafton – the… Read More ›

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