Joann and Gordon Pitz, in front of the National Museum of Art in Barcelona How is taking an Untour different from other ways of traveling? For many years we traveled independently of any tour group. This gave us maximum freedom, and enabled us to develop a sense of how people in other countries live. But…
Category Archives: Spain
Of course, you’ll need to see La Alhambra when you go to Spain…
Anyone who chooses the Spanish Untour, inevitably wants to see La Alhambra in Granada. We recommend that you purchase your tickets here ahead of time. Then you can collect the tickets by printing your tickets at the collection terminals at the entrance of La Alhambra. (You’ll need the credit card with which you purchased them.)…
Antoni Gaudi: learning to fly, because you can’t afford the shoes
A diagram of a hyperboloidal vault, Gaudi’s genius, La Sagrada Familia and other things in Barcelona way over our heads Barcelona is a city unique in all the world for many reasons, but it owes its celebrated singularity more to one man than any other single factor: Antoni Gaudi. While originally classed as a Modernist, …
Untourists of the week: Bob Crossley and Monica McAlpine
Monica and Bob….and the endless olive trees of Andalusia in the background. 1.Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. Our two weeks in Andalusia last September may have been our most unique UnTours trip so far. (This was our fourth UnTours experience;…
Culture Clue: Barcelona’s Articket is the museum-lovers ticket to heaven
We hope you had a happy 4th of July. The UnTours Bloggers took the day off too! So you get our usual Wednesday Culture Clue on a Thursday this week! When you’re an Untourist in Barcelona you automatically receive an Articket, one of the best deals in Europe. It gets you into 7 major museums…
Untourist of the Week: Pam Nesbit
About the picture, Pam says: ” The picture is taken on The Sacred Way in Athens. I was pretty thrilled to be on the Sacred Way having read about Greece for years, so I was doing a little “Sacred Way” dance and my husband got hold of the camera…” 1. Tell us a little bit…