The sun is shining on our guests in Amalfi this week. It is a lovely spring on Italy’s most gorgeous stretch of coastline. Our Amalfi Coast UnTour is in full swing. Guests fill cafe tables on the piazza and soak up sun on their terraces. It is stark contrast to my trip in January. Why…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our lastest UnTour was to Paris last spring. We stayed in the Daguerre (sp) apt for two weeks and loved it! The street market around the corner was wonderful and we enjoyed shopping for great things to eat each day. The metro stop was…
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…
The Book: The Italian Affair by Laura Frazer What our recommending UnTourist, Whitmel Swain, says about it: Tell us in a sentence or two what it is about?: When the author’s husband leaves her, she goes to Ischia to nurse her wounds & discovers a number o wonderful things including, of course, love Why did…
We couldn’t resist. After last weeks profile of Jerry and Deena we realized we didn’t have room for any of the photos that they always come home with and post on UnTours Cafe. So this Monday, we wanted to share with you their photos from Holland. There’s something for everybody, from stunning fields of flowers,…
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…
I have a theory that the UnTour way of travel changes how you see things. Pulled out of your routine and placed into a setting of beauty, with some friendly, knowledgeable people to set you out on the right foot, many of us find that this way of travel is not just a good trip. …
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…
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…
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…