The World In Between

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• Seville, and Why We Travel

  By Julie Callahan on February 5, 2023 • ( 14 )

  

  After four weeks, we’re headed north. On the train from Seville to Madrid, I have 2 1/2 hours to write this post before we arrive for a 48-hour whirlwind stop. It’s been four weeks of blissful sunshine. Four weeks of… Read More ›

• From Seville to Paris: A story of pain

  By Julie Callahan on January 25, 2023 • ( 13 )

  

  We’ve been in Seville for nearly 3 weeks. It’s a trip we had planned before we took back our apartment in Paris. An example of a trip, Pat pointed out during our pre-lease-signing negotiations, that won’t happen once we have… Read More ›

• Morning in Sevilla

  By Julie Callahan on January 19, 2023 • ( 4 )

  

  9:15 AM January 19, 2023 Bar Alfalfa, Sevilla, Spain: I walk into a staccato of Spanish. Loud. Animated. Relentless. It sounds like a fight is about to break out, yet it ends with a slap on the back, a hug…. Read More ›

• Morning in Paris

  By Julie Callahan on December 31, 2022 • ( 4 )

  

  A small crowd is gathering. It’s 10 minutes past the posted opening time, yet no one seems fussed. In Paris, things happen when they happen, which is to say a beat or two late. C’est la vie. Once inside we… Read More ›

• Beauty and the Beast

  By Julie Callahan on December 14, 2022 • ( 15 )

  

  I came of age in the 70s—went to a travel agency to buy my plane ticket home from college, stopped at the bank to deposit my pay check and get a bit of cash, browsed the university library card catalogue… Read More ›

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