The World In Between

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• A weekend at the spa in Piestany, Slovakia

  By Julie Callahan on February 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  “Your medical consultation is at five.”   I dreaded this part, but it was a prerequisite to the treatments at the Thermia Palace spa..  “Thanks, that’s perfect.”.  Besides, a quick blood pressure check seemed a good idea after 18 months of eastern European fried… Read More ›

• Taking the water cure…

  By Julie Callahan on February 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Water treatments are scattered in my literary memory.  My Austrian babysitter read to me from Heidi.   In the opening pages, Heidi’s Aunt Dete takes a job in the baths leaving Heidi to live with grandfather in the Swiss alps.  Heidi’s invalid friend, Clara, visits… Read More ›

• Three Days in Copenhagen…

  By Julie Callahan on February 3, 2013 • ( 10 )

  

   Our daughter, Taylor, visited in January and wanted to go “someplace new”.  She’s a well travelled 20 year old – and unfortunately, the south of Europe was largely in the “been there, done that” category.  “What about Copenhagen?”   In the pros column were the 59 euro… Read More ›

• It’s time to move on…

  By Julie Callahan on January 27, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  It is time to say goodbye to Bratislava and hello to Budapest.  We didn’t come here thinking it was forever.  Yet, leaving is still hard.  An itinerant life is fun, right up until you actually have to move. Relocating between countries requires a… Read More ›

• The Slovak tradition of a brandy with friends…

  By Julie Callahan on January 20, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  Igor popped his head out from his office, “Pat, you have a phone call.”  The 20th anniversary party for the Music Forum was hitting full swing.  It didn’t occur to us that no one knew we were at the music shop in… Read More ›

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