The Nafplio UnTour in Greece is one of my favorites. It’s the perfect example of what our founder Hal Taussig had in mind when he came up with the UnTour concept. The town is big enough to offer interesting museums and sights, a vibrant restaurant scene, lovely waterfront walks, two beaches and enchanting alleys. Yet…
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Travels with Anna: Rediscovering Greece
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Friendly dogs and sandy beaches aren’t the first things that come to mind for me when I think of Nafplio and our Greek UnTour. My 14-year-old daughter opened my eyes to new sides of this lovely seaside town when we visited Greece this summer. Anna didn’t join me on a work trip to Greece to see…
Jane and Curtiss Conrad, Untourists of the Week: Let’s Go Again
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1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our last UnTour was to Greece. We had a spacious apartment in a square across from the steps to Napflio’s castle. 2. Why did you choose to go there? Poppy—where they stayed We chose Greece because we loved Barcelona and Amalfi and wanted to…
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…
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…
The DeWoody Family, Untourists of the Week
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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…
Untourist of the Week: Edythe Salzman
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Edythe Salzmann and Jean Weisel take UnTours with us nearly every year. This week they share the spotlight together as UnTourists of the Week. We asked them for one picture. They sent four, and they were all so good, we couldn’t choose! Don’t they just look like the best of friends having the best of…
Untourists of the Week: Elsa and Raymond Heald
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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…
Dawna Warren and Jim Moore, Untourists of the Week
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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….
Mary Ann Miller: Untourist of the Week and Untour Artist extraordinaire
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Welcome to December….Potluck month on the UnTours Blog! Instead of our normal practice of featuring one particular UnTour Destination for the month, during the last month of 2012, we’re going to skip around a bit, hoping to catch a few of the real stars of our UnTour community that may have been missed. Today, we’d…