1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour and why you chose to go there? My son and I did one week on the Rhine and one week at the Castle in Germany and one week in Salzburg in Austria. Our most exciting thing we wanted to see was Neuschwanstein Castle and…
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Helvi & Vincent Larson, Untourists of the Week: ‘Returning to Tuscany was like going home.’
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1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTours. Recently we took two UnTours. The first was in October 2012, when we returned to Quebec City where we had spent our honeymoon 50 years ago. It was as delightful as we remembered it. Definitely deserves a return visit. It’s a great UnTours North…
Margaret & Charles Oliver, Untourists of the Week: Sunrise on the Wetterhorn
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1. What is your favorite UnTours memory? Waking up in Meiringen to crystal blue skies and seeking the sun rise on the Wetterhorn Mountain. Chalet Margrit—where they stayed 2. How is taking an Untour different from other ways of travelling? An Untour gives a traveler a chance to get settled and to feel “at home”…
Kathy Raines, Untourist of the Week: Alsace + Tuscany
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1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. My last Untour was to Alsace and Tuscany. Alsace was beautiful and we loved the little villages. Tuscany is simply amazing. 2. Why did you choose to go there? I chose Alsace as I had never been to that region of France. I chose…
Christine Berry, Untourist of the Week: You just don’t have to follow the pack
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1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. My most recent Untour was to Quebec. The people, history, scenery, and food were all Untour-worthy! Quebec is a wonderfully walkable city. One thing I especially liked: all the charm and feel of Europe without the transatlantic flight! 2. Why did you choose to…
Jim and Marlene Cable, Untourists of the Week: Two weeks are better than one
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. This was the Swiss Oberland tour which offered and fulfilled the hope of covering points west and south that seemed a bit out of reach on our other Swiss visits. 2. Why did you choose to go there? We had done the Swiss Heartland…
Sandee and Mike Lawless, Untourists of the Week: 3 “best” Untour memories
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour? Our most recent Untour trip was to Tuscany. We spent two weeks in an apartment at the beautiful Le Chiuse vineyard near Montalcino. It was so informative to see first hand the operation of a multi-generational family-owned vineyard. We took numerous day trips in…
Robert & Cheryl Beymer, Untourists of the Week: France, 50 years in the making
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. We spent a week in each of the three UnTours sites in France: Provence, Alsace and Paris. We were by ourselves in Provence, but two friends met us in Strasbourg for the final two weeks in Alsace and Paris. The three regions were each…
Phil and Jane King, Untourists of the Week: Kids relive first trip to Switzerland
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1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. Our most recent, and I believe our 14th, Untour was to the City of Light, Paris. This was our fourth trip to Paris and our third Untour there. It is an unbelievably beautiful city and so enjoyable to walk, both day and night. Plus,…
Don and Joanne Popeck, Untourists of the Week: Untours is a bridge
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. My wife, Joanne, and I travelled with our grandson Brian (then age 14) to Spain in June 2012. We decided that the ideal was to experience the Spanish countryside as well as the cities. UnTours has the perfect match for that. We did a…