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Category: Switzerland

Small public park near the Schloss Spiez Castle
Submitted by Special Guest
on January 19, 2023 under SwitzerlandTravel Tips

Taking The Four Pass Tour In Switzerland

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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Swiss Transport Museum
Submitted by Andrea Szyper
on February 23, 2022 under HeartlandOberlandSwitzerlandTrainTrip planning

Swiss Innovation: The Transport Museum in Luzern

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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A guide to Swiss food
Submitted by Special Guest
on November 5, 2021 under BeerCheesesFood and DrinkHeartlandOberlandRestaurantsSwitzerlandTravel Tips

Eating Switzerland: An Alumni Guide to Swiss Food

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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Stay in Switzerland
Submitted by Special Guest
on October 5, 2021 under HeartlandHiking and WalkingOberlandSwitzerland

Jonathan Reports from the Swiss Untour, fall 2021

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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How to plan a Swiss vacation
Submitted by Untours Staff
on July 28, 2021 under CheesesHeartlandHiking and WalkingOberlandSwitzerlandTravel TipsTrip planning

A Video Intro to the Swiss Untour

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 Brian Taussig-Lux
on June 25, 2021 under HeartlandOberlandSwitzerland

Remembering Albert Greutert

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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Swiss cheese guide
Submitted by Andrea Szyper
on March 1, 2021 under CheesesFood and DrinkHeartlandOberlandSwitzerland

Swiss Cheese: A Vocabulary Lesson

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 Andrea Szyper
on February 15, 2021 under HeartlandOberlandSwitzerland

Swiss Yodeling, Yes, But Why? A Brief History

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 Special Guest
on December 21, 2020 under HeartlandOberlandSwitzerland

Swiss-mas Carols, Alpine Snow, and Cinnamon Stars: Holidays with Urs

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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Thun
Submitted by Untours Staff
on October 19, 2020 under HeartlandHiking and WalkingOberlandSwitzerland

Six Things to See and Do in Thun, Switzerland

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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