This piece originally ran in our UnTours Quarterly newsletter. (You can sign up for all of our newsletters here.) We got a lot of interesting comments from readers. We’ve included the best of them at the bottom of my post. After watching my own daughter’s obsession with the film in the years since I lived…
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Sound of Music Reboot: My Favorite Things
Navigating life’s ups and downs, photo by Cathrin Baumbach At some point in my 20s, I learned to sing away the blues. One rough winter, I took to rewriting the lyrics to My Favorite Things. My list of favorites was a lot different back then, but singing about them is an uplifting habit that has…
Top 10 Vienna: The Sights and Experiences You Can’t Miss!
There are few cities in the world that are as regal and majestic as Vienna. Filled with stunning palaces, lovely coffee houses, and splendid churches, the architecture and ambiance is hard to top. This old world city is alive with museums and concert halls, an essential stop for fans of fine art and classical music….
Rebecca Goodspeed, Untourist of the Week: Castle hunting with her son
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour and why you chose to go there? My son and I did one week on the Rhine and one week at the Castle in Germany and one week in Salzburg in Austria. Our most exciting thing we wanted to see was Neuschwanstein Castle and…
Jim and Marlene Cable, Untourists of the Week: Two weeks are better than one
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. This was the Swiss Oberland tour which offered and fulfilled the hope of covering points west and south that seemed a bit out of reach on our other Swiss visits. 2. Why did you choose to go there? We had done the Swiss Heartland…
Jean and William Tarr, Untourists of the Week, love the “small village” experience
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We arranged a visit to Bettona, Umbria, in Italy for one week and then to Vienna for the second week. We needed to make our own air arrangements but it was easy enough to do. We loved being in the hilltop village with access…
Russell & Barbara Crum, Renaissance Untourists of the Week (Umbria..Switzerland and Austria!)
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1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent UnTour was to Kuchl, Austria in May 2012. We chose the Seiwald apartment for two weeks. We found this to be a charming small town to base in with great scenery. It was interesting to sit on our balcony and watch…
And the Unny winners are…
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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…
Stephen and Sandra Aylward, Untourists of the Week
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We enjoyed the Bavarian Castle/Salzburg sampler. 2. Why did you choose to go there? We saw a bit of Bavaria and northern Austria of a bus tour in 2006 and promised ourselves then to return and enjoy the area at a more leisurely pace….
Here come the Unny Awards!
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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…