Submitted by UnTourist Jerry Nolan shares with us his memories of The Four Pass Tour in Meiringen, Switzerland. Many years ago when Sandy and I were making our first forays into Switzerland under the care of UnTours (which turned into a multi year love…
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Submitted by Switzerland is well known for its excellent rail system, hearty enough to deliver you to mountain tops and punctual enough to set your watch by. Of course the Swiss transportation system goes far beyond trains to encompass boats, buses, gondolas,…
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Submitted by This post comes to us from Swiss UnoTur alumnus Jerry Nolan. Because my wife Sandy and I went to Switzerland summer after summer for many years before age and circumstance grounded us, I often find myself pining over memories of…
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Submitted by Jonathan Coleman is the Co-CEO of the Untours Foundation. He just returned from his first trip to Switzerland, on a Swiss Untour. Here are his impressions. When traveling, one meets interesting people. It’s an inevitable truth and an undeniable draw…
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Submitted by There are lots of reasons to love Switzerland and lots of reasons to travel there. We are excited to welcome our first guests back next month, and we are fielding questions and phone calls every day from guests with common…
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Submitted by On June 11, Untours lost its long-time friend and colleague in Switzerland, Albert Greutert. Albert and his wife Berit were apartment hosts from the earliest years of Untours in the 1970s. Berit, Albert’s vivacious wife, was one of our earliest…
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Submitted by It pains me to think that I spent more than half of my life laboring under the delusion that Swiss cheese had anything to do with those shrink wrapped plasticky yellow bricks from the supermarket dairy case. I fondly remember…
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Submitted by We travel with our eyes, yes, but also with our ears. And some of our favorite places have distinct, unique sounds, sounds that take us back to our experiences there when we hear them. Perhaps no sound is quite as…
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Submitted by We recently got this sweet message with video and photos from Urs, one of our favorite colleagues in Switzerland, known among our Swiss Untour alumni for his positivity and his singing voice. We had to share his greetings, and a…
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Submitted by With its remarkable combination of history, setting, and culture, Thun is one of our favorite cities in Switzerland. Thun Castle overlooks the city and offers a wonderful view. As you walk the arcaded sidewalks of the old city, you’re constantly…
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