Don and Deby Elliott were our Untourists of the week last Monday. When we saw all the amazing photos that they’d sent (unsolicited, from their Iphone, back las summer during their trip) we decided we’d just have to do two postings on the Elliotts. So the last week’s was a general overview of their trip,…
Here’s Hal in 2010 with Bart Houlahan and Jay Gilbert of B Lab, which certifies B Corporations. This photo captures Hal just after winning the first annual B Lab “Hal Taussig Award”. One of our aims at the UnTours Foundation is to invest in businesses with great values, that give back, and that don’t “take”…
Of all the provinces in Canada, Quebec has the deepest love affair going with food. Thanks, no doubt, to their French cultural heritage, the Quebecois are intensely interested in the art of eating well. How does this manifest itself? Small, elegant cafes and bistros all over the city, and sumptous country inns in the rural…
From its beginnings as the capital of New France (back in the early 1600s), to its current day sobriquet of the National Capital (to the Québecois), Quebec City is a wonder to behold and a dream to vacation in. Its remarkable history has made Vieux-Québec (Old Québec) a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985. There…
Don and Deby Elliott took their very first Untour, to Quebec, in 2011. How did it go? We think Don’s quote, when he sent us the pictures from his Iphone, says it best: “It’s tough looking at the pictures and not being there. That’s when you know you had a good vacation!’ 1.”Tell us a…
All of our foundation board members are amazing, of course, and that includes Mary LeFever, who first met Hal and Norma when her husband, Harry, taught with Hal at Springfield High School in southeastern Pennsylvania. When Hal and Norma formed the UnTours Foundation in 1993, they asked Mary to be a founding board member. Mary…
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…
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…
Photo courtesy of wackybadger (license) There is no end to the splendor of Paris. The Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur, the Louvre…the list goes on and on. One place that we love to visit, and that may not get as much press as those other sites, is the Place des Vosges….
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…