Since I started working here way back in 2011, the UnTours regions have been calling on me to give them some attention. Actually, not just attention, but distinction. Now, I know they are all big enough to speak for themselves. They don’t need you to tell them they’re great; we all already know that. What…
Category Archives: Alsace
Ray and Lillian Nagle, Untourists of the Week, do a French triple play!

1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We chose to experience an UnTour Sampler of Provence and Paris with an added week in Alsace. In Provence, we stayed at Margaillon 1 near Le Thor. Then onto Paris to the Lescot apartment. We finished out our three weeks in France in Ribeauvillé…
James & Bridget Joy, Untourists of the Week: Alsace + Provence + Niece!

1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. In September, 2010, Bridget and I and our niece Elizabeth Murphy went to Pernes-les-Fontaines in Provence for two weeks and drove to Ribeauvillé in Alsace for the wine harvest during the third week. 2. Why did you choose to go there? Our love of…
Amy & Laurie Calhoun, the Sisterhood of Traveling Untourists – Our Untourists the Week

Amy & Laurie are sisters who travel together a lot. The photo is of Amy and the words are Laurie’s. 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent trip was to Provence, though we’ve been there twice and cannot wait to return for a third time! This is one…
Untourists of the Week: Elsa and Raymond Heald

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…
Dawna Warren and Jim Moore, Untourists of the Week
Dawna and Jim have taken UnTours to Tuscany (1999), Swiss Heartland (2000), Umbria (2002), Greece (2005), Tuscany (2008), Swiss Ticino (2008), Rhine and Holland (2010), Provence (2012) and Alsace (2012). In this picture, they are walking in Greece. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our all-France visit. Two weeks in St….
Untourists of the Week: Pat and Jack Cruser
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…
Our Untourist of the Week, Doris M! (her Untours Cafe moniker)
This week’s UnTourist of the Week, Doris Matick because of her lovely photos of Spain that you see in the slideshow below. But when we asked her for her UnTour impressions, she went all over the map. Which is not to say, she doesn’t love Spain. Check out her wonderful blog post on UnTours Cafe,…
The Brains Behind French (and French Canadian) Untours
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…
A Fabulous Escape by Larry Kueneman, Untourist
Today’s post was written by Larry Kueneman, an UnTourist who spent 2 weeks in Alsace and 2 weeks at a Bavarian castle in Germany with UnTours. The following is his account of his trip. A Fabulous Escape Most of us have heard people complain after spending tons on a port-to-port cruise ship where things went…