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…
Category Archives: France
Bruce and Marlene Bauman, Untourists of the Week
Bruce and Marlene have been travelling with us since 19Elizabethkillough: Swiss Heartland six times, Swiss Oberland four times, Tuscany, the Rhine and Provence last year. They are booked to go back to Swiss Heartland and Oberland this year! Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. We took a Viking ship down the…
Dawna Warren and Jim Moore, Untourists of the Week
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….
Untourists of the Week: Pat and Jack Cruser
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…
Mary Ann Miller: Untourist of the Week and Untour Artist extraordinaire
Welcome to December….Potluck month on the UnTours Blog! Instead of our normal practice of featuring one particular Untour Destination for the month, during the last month of 2012, we’re going to skip around a bit, hoping to catch a few of the real stars of our Untour community that may have been missed. Today, we’d…
Our Untourist of the Week, Doris M! (her Untours Cafe moniker)
This week’s Untourist of the Week, Doris Matick because of her lovely photos of Spain that you see in the slideshow below. But when we asked her for her Untour impressions, she went all over the map. Which is not to say, she doesn’t love Spain. Check out her wonderful blog post on UnTours Cafe,…
The Brains Behind French (and French Canadian) Untours
As we March ahead with 2012, I feel it is important to introduce you to the terrific two that make UnTours France and UnTours Quebec City so incroyable and filled with that, how do you say?, je ne sais quoi. Meet Dodge Amaral and Mia Lehmann! If you’re even entertaining the thought of going to…
Adam Gopnik, and other love-hate phenomena related to France.
There are two kinds of travellers: some take trips, while others are really “tryin on a new life” on each journey This second kind of traveler dreams of moving abroad, dropping everything, and truly inhabiting a locale they’ve fallen in love with on a trip. One might compare this to daydreaming,while you’re on a…
Untourist of the Week: Barbara Cheesman aka Francophile & Co.
1.”Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour.” It was back to Provence yet another time! Having explored much of France over the years, my husband Jerry and I,or my two Francophile friends, Lorraine, Marcia, and I, have returned to Provence to the same apartment (Gamet 2) in St. Didier annually since 2005…
A Fabulous Escape by Larry Kueneman, Untourist
Today’s post was written by Larry Kueneman, an Untourist who spent 2 weeks in Alsace and 2 weeks at a Bavarian castle in Germany with UnTours. The following is his account of his trip. A Fabulous Escape Most of us have heard people complain after spending tons on a port-to-port cruise ship where things went…