Montalcino, Top of your Bucket List So much to see and do in Italy. Of course you will likely start with Venice, Florence and Rome, what we knowlingly call The Big Three. (Wink. Nudge.) You may have gotten into the Tuscan countryside or the Amalfi Coast. If you’re lucky (and/or savvy), you’ve dug more deeply into these places….
Category Archives: Amalfi Coast
And the Unny winners are…
Photo by UnTourist Ron Anderson As you may know, we had the inaugural Unny Awards just recently. These awards are our way of recognizing the regions which have welcomed UnTours all these years. The Unnies are fun and lighthearted and that’s how we like things around here. We like to think of them as the…
Here come the Unny Awards!
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…
Kathy & George Patience (Untourists of the Week) love, love, love Italy
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. The Amalfi Coast October 2012. 2. Why did you choose to go there? We love, love, love Italy!!! We had gone to Tuscany on an earlier UnTour adventure a few years before & had visited Venice, Rome, & Florence. So, we had heard how…
Whitmel and Betty Swain, Untourists of the Week
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We took a three week tour of Italy, in this order: Amalfi, Umbria and Tuscany. Our apartment in Amalfi was on the waterfront, with a balcony overlooking a delightfully Italianate traffic circle filled with life and a view of the sea. In Umbria, we…
Armchair Amalfi-ing
Our UnTourists of the Week, Andrew & Diana Stevens mentioned some of the more unforgettable aspects of their latest UnTour, including the glories of walking (“The Walk of the Gods” is an unforgettable one) the allure of the ubiquitous lemon orchards, We’ve curated a few gems from the internet to illustrate what the Stevens were…
Andrew & Diana Stevens, Untourists of the Week
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent UnTour took us to the village of Amalfi on the Amalfi Coast. This vacation spot provided us with an unexpected mixture of local/tourist, hustle/serenity, activity/rest and nature/architecture. Our apartment faced the sea but the traffic circle, complete with bus stops, was…
Keith and Barbara Lawrence, Untourists of the Week Go Back to Venice
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our first week was a return to Venice, staying in the same apartment as on a prior UnTour vacation so we knew beforehand where to shop, eat, pick up the vaparetto, and how to enjoy the special ambience and memorable sights of that ancient…
The DeWoody Family, Untourists of the Week
The Dewoodys family are a lovely snapshot of the kind of family experience UnTouring together can offer. Check back tomorrow, October 30th for more of their wonderful pictures, as part of the final slideshow on Kids & Grandkids in Switzerland. 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour and why you chose…
Untourists of the Week: Robert Farkas & Barbara Mellerski-Farkas
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour and why you chose that particular destination? Our last UnTour experience took us to Atrani on the Amalfi Coast for two weeks and then for another two weeks to Locarno, Switzerland to enjoy the beautiful Ticino Region. Both areas suited our needs to for a…