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Untourists of the Week: Elsa and Raymond Heald

March 21, 2013 by Mtaussig

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…

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February 18, 2013 by Andic

This is the final of 6 posts in a series covering my 5 weeks in Greece, Istanbul and Italy. The other posts are linked at the bottom of this post. On a rather dreary Monday morning in early October I packed up the car, stopped for a coffee with a friend and then took my…

Florence Italy Venice

January 29, 2013 by Andic

This is post number 5 of 6 in a series covering my 5 weeks in Greece, Istanbul and Italy. The other posts are linked at the bottom of this post. Florence has always been one of my favorite stops when in Italy, even before we had an Untour there, even before I started working at…

Untourists of the Week: Pat and Jack Cruser

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December 12, 2012 by Mtaussig

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…

Italy, myth and reality

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September 26, 2012 by Andrea Szyper

Editor’s note about the photo: We thought a perfect complement to Andrea’s essay about getting beyond the stereotypes of a culture was one of Glenn McClure‘s many amazing portraits he takes while on Italian UnTours. See more of Glenn’s photos here at his website, or on this blog. The thoughtfulness he puts into his photographs…

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September 19, 2012 by Andrea Szyper

Who goes to Italy to drink beer? Those in the know. Italians have long enjoyed beer with their pizza, but refined and complex micro brews have replaced the old Peroni. Indeed birra artiginale (Italian craft beer) is putting Italy on the world brewing map. Unlike their northern European counterparts, Italian brewers are not bound by…

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September 17, 2012 by Mtaussig

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…

Caffé rules: Feel at home in the Italian coffee bar

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September 12, 2012 by Andrea Szyper

Italian coffee rules. We don’t need to tell you that. We’ve gotten much more sophisticated as a coffee-drinking people ourselves. Surely most of us know our cappuccino from our macchiato well before we set foot on a plane. (We may have even gotten a twenty ounce latte at the drive-thru coffee shop on the way…

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September 10, 2012 by Mtaussig

Glen and his wife, Marshall, have been on 5 UnTours, travelling with us first in 1999: Tuscany (1999,2005), Umbria (2006), Venice-Umbria (2007), Tuscany- Umbria (2011). Tell us a little bit about your most recent Untour. We spent one week in Tuscany and one week in Umbria. I am a professional photographer and I love to photograph…

A roadmap for some of Italian culture’s more noteworthy features

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September 6, 2012 by Andrea Szyper

A festival at one of UnTours’ home villages, Murlo is one way that you can see the strong bonds of community that are typical in an Italian community; it’s one hallmark of the Italian culture. In an attempt to better understand Italy, today’s culture clue is an overview of some of Italian culture’s more famous…

Category Archives: Venice

Untourists of the Week: Elsa and Raymond Heald

La Serenissima…the most serene

Firenze, la bella

Untourists of the Week: Pat and Jack Cruser

Italy, myth and reality

So You Thought Italians Only Drank Wine: Italian Microbrews

Vickie Kelber, Renaissance Woman

Caffé rules: Feel at home in the Italian coffee bar

Glen McClure: Photographer & Untourist Extraordinaire!

A roadmap for some of Italian culture’s more noteworthy features