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February 23, 2014 by Nickfortunatus

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…  


Monday Memories: Erika

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Austria Heartland Switzerland Vienna

November 11, 2013 by Nickfortunatus

This week’s Monday Memory is from UnTourists Margaret and Pete Haggart. In 2007, we visited Vienna for a week as an add-on to our two weeks in the Heartland of Switzerland. I taught film history for many decades at the University of Idaho and Vienna provided an opportunity to get my picture taken in front…  


Untourists of the Week: Elsa and Raymond Heald

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March 21, 2013 by Mtaussig

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…  


Film Review: Before Sunrise, Untours Setting: Vienna

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Austria Vienna

March 14, 2013 by Mtaussig

UnTours’ TAKE: Before Sunrise (1995), directed by Richard Linklater, and starring a very young Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy, is the first in a series of three films, all very well reviewed. Central to each movie is the romance between Hawke and Delphy’s characters. This, the first of these movies, is set in Vienna. Essentially,…  


Garth and Barbara Radley, Untourists of the Week

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Austria Salzburg UnTourist Stories

February 19, 2013 by Mtaussig

Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour.: Our UnTours experience is limited but by no means finalized. We have been to Switzerland & Austria & are currently considering plans to venture into Tuscany & Rome. The Austrian trip was our most recent. We were lodged in a great two bedroom apartment in…  


Dawna Warren and Jim Moore, Untourists of the Week

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January 29, 2013 by Mtaussig

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….