Here’s the third installment in an 8-week photoblog by Sonia Ratcliffe about her first trip to Andalusia. First Cordoba, then Carcabuey…now on to Zuheros! The main Plaza with the ruins of a Moorish castle behind. Sadly, we missed the opening hours—you have to keep close tabs on them in Southern Spain! The main Plaza looking…
Here’s the second installment in a 9-week photoblog by Sonia Ratcliffe about her first trip to Andalusia. After Cordoba, I made my way to beautiful Carcabuey. Before entering the village: who would have thought that views from a junkyard would be pretty?! You can see the ruined castle in the top-left. View onto the…
This series of posts was written by UnTours staffer Sonia Ratcliffe. I just got back from my first trip to the Andalusia region of Spain and, instead of writing a lengthy description of my travels, I wanted to just show you my favorite pictures from the trip! This week, we’ll start with my first stop…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. My wife, Joanne, and I travelled with our grandson Brian (then age 14) to Spain in June 2012. We decided that the ideal was to experience the Spanish countryside as well as the cities. UnTours has the perfect match for that. We did a…
For me, this week’s timelapse of Andalusia is one of the most enlightening I’ve come across, because I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting Spain myself. Not only is it filled with amazing visuals but, because it was created by spain.info, Spain’s official tourism site, every shot is nicely labeled so I can know what…
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…
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…
This week’s Monday Memory is from UnTourist Laura Morris. We did a two-week UnTour in Andalusia in May 2013 with two friends. It was wonderful. We stayed with Maria in a marvelous 4-bedroom house in the middle of an olive grove outside Fuente Tojar. The one mistake we made was thinking we would be able…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We experienced a Spain Sampler: we spent one week in Barcelona and one week in Andalusia, outside the tiny town of Carcabuey. 2. Why did you choose to go there? Although we had taken four previous UnTours, we had never taken a Sampler trip….
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour and why you chose that particular destination? We enjoyed two UnTours in Spain in 2008. First, we spent two weeks in Fuente Tojar (near Priego de Cordoba), enjoying auto trips to Granada, Cordoba, Sevilla. Then to Malaga, where we turned in the car, and flew…