1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. We spent 1 week in Vienna and 1 week in Paris. However, our most memorable was the month we stayed in Paris to celebrate our 50th anniversary. Truly outstanding trip 2. Why did you choose to go there? Vienna was always a place we…
This week’s Monday Memory is from Untourists Margaret and Pete Haggart. In 2007, we visited Vienna for a week as an add-on to our two weeks in the Heartland of Switzerland. I taught film history for many decades at the University of Idaho and Vienna provided an opportunity to get my picture taken in front…
This week’s installment is our first from Untourists! Get a glimpse of this memory from Eleanor and Bill Kover. Vienna, Austria. July 24, 1973. It was our first trip to Europe, part of a two week “Freelance” tour that included London, Vienna, Rome and Paris. You had the choice of taking a bus tour of…
Alan’s picture of Jo, in Amalfi last year Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. In Austria, we stayed in the comfortable Seiwald apartment in Kuchl. The Kuchl location was ideal for visiting Salzburg and numerous nearby small villages. The town evoked memories of the Sound of Music. The lake and mountain…
Ray leaving old Chapel with 15th century fresco on Wanda’s farm in Umbria. (inset is their photo of the fresco inside) 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. It was a dream vacation: 8 days on the Variety Voyager, the sleek 73-passenger yacht that put us ashore at the fabled ports…
UnTours’ TAKE: Before Sunrise (1995), directed by Richard Linklater, and starring a very young Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy, is the first in a series of three films, all very well reviewed. Central to each movie is the romance between Hawke and Delphy’s characters. This, the first of these movies, is set in Vienna. Essentially,…
Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour.: Our UnTours experience is limited but by no means finalized. We have been to Switzerland & Austria & are currently considering plans to venture into Tuscany & Rome. The Austrian trip was our most recent. We were lodged in a great two bedroom apartment in…
Dawna and Jim have taken UnTours to Tuscany (1999), Swiss Heartland (2000), Umbria (2002), Greece (2005), Tuscany (2008), Swiss Ticino (2008), Rhine and Holland (2010), Provence (2012) and Alsace (2012). In this picture, they are walking in Greece. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. Our all-France visit. Two weeks in St….
Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour? When Marilee asked me some questions about our experiences with UnTours, the review of memories turned out to be fun for the most part, funny in some aspects, and always enlightening. A bit of background: we have completed 19 UnTours, with the 20th to be…
Vickie Kelber, our Untourist of the week has to be, pound for pound, one of the top contenders for the best photographer/writer we have among our many, many talented Untourists. She does both of them fabulously. We’re all the more lucky, then, that she takes lots of pictures and usually writes a blog that she…