Steve and Karen Savel at the Chora Church in Istanbul. Long-time Untourists Steve and Karen Savel recently returned from our new Istanbul Untour. Last week on the blog they gave us the full review of their 21st Untour in an Istanbul Untour Q&A. This week, we share their list of favorite sights and places to…
Long-time Untourists Steve and Karen Savel recently returned from our new Istanbul Untour. This marked their 21st Untour! How did Istanbul compare? Read what Steve had to say about their exciting time in a city they adore. Q: You were an early advocate for an Istanbul Untour, asking us to add it to our offerings…
Subject and portrait. This and all photos below by Glen McClure. If you have been reading the UnTours Blog, you are already acquainted with Glen McClure, a loyal Untourist and brilliant photographer. You may have seen the images from his spring trip to Vence, France. But what you may not know is that this trip…
The sun is shining on our guests in Amalfi this week. It is a lovely spring on Italy’s most gorgeous stretch of coastline. Our Amalfi Coast Untour is in full swing. Guests fill cafe tables on the piazza and soak up sun on their terraces. It is stark contrast to my trip in January. Why…
Back in August, Dodge Amaral, Director of the Buenos Aires Untour, made a trip to Argentina to contract new apartments and connect with our local staff person, Graciela Nealon. At the time, the seasons were the reverse of now. “Though being there in early August meant relatively cool temperatures, it was honestly a lovely respite…
Photo by Pit Thompson It is hard to think of tango without conjuring images of Buenos Aires, the dance’s birthplace. Indeed the culture of the dance and the national identity are intertwined like, well, like dance partners in a smoldering embrace. Though danced around the globe, the development of tango weaves in and out of…
A good bag, water bottle, wipes and snacks are essentials for travel. OK, so he is a big boy preschooler now. But my son was a toddler when I took him and his daddy to Italy with me for a work trip. And in getting ready for the journey, I felt my travel systems were…
Editor’s note about the photo: We thought a perfect complement to Andrea’s essay about getting beyond the stereotypes of a culture was one of Glenn McClure‘s many amazing portraits he takes while on Italian UnTours. See more of Glenn’s photos here at his website, or on this blog. The thoughtfulness he puts into his photographs…
Who goes to Italy to drink beer? Those in the know. Italians have long enjoyed beer with their pizza, but refined and complex micro brews have replaced the old Peroni. Indeed birra artiginale (Italian craft beer) is putting Italy on the world brewing map. Unlike their northern European counterparts, Italian brewers are not bound by…
Italian coffee rules. We don’t need to tell you that. We’ve gotten much more sophisticated as a coffee-drinking people ourselves. Surely most of us know our cappuccino from our macchiato well before we set foot on a plane. (We may have even gotten a twenty ounce latte at the drive-thru coffee shop on the way…