Along with this “Un-map”* of the cultural delights of Nafplio, here are excerpts from one of our more delighted Greek UnTourists on the joys of eating in Nafplio, Kaye Norman. To read more of her Nafplio adventures, click here. from Kay Norman’s UnTours Cafe Blog: Nafplio Greece, October 2010 “The town of Nafplio –…
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Untourists of the Week: Marcia and Oded Borowski
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Marcia and Oded on their three week adventure in their favorite place: Greece 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We spent a little over 3 weeks in Greece – – in THE PERFECT LITTLE TOWN of Nafplion. We had both been to Greece before several times, mostly separately and…
Memories of an Untourist Artist in Greece: Ann Cockerill
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Ann Cockerill’s little boat that “begged to have it’s portrait painted.’ From an answer Ann gave to a question someone on the UnTours Cafe asked here about the lovely paintings she makes while on UnTours, and in this case, about this boat, that she found while on a Greek UnTour. We think it speaks very…
Mediterranean Diet & Greece: Where People Forget to Die
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A recent testament to the healthy properties of the Mediterranean Diet, specifically the Greek diet, has inspired us here at UnTours. (Read the entire article in last week’s NY TImes magazine here: The Island Where People Forget to Die) This article profiles a Greek WWII veteran, Stamatis Moraitis, who came to the US in 1943,…
An Italian in Greece (and Istanbul…and finally in Italy)
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This is post number 1 of 6 in a series covering my 5 weeks in Greece, Istanbul and Italy. The other posts are linked at the bottom of this post. What is an Italo-phile like me to do when planning a vacation outside of Italy? Go to Greece! Prior to my overseas work assignment (more…
Untourists of the Week: Enid & Bob Phreaner and their story of Christos as “Spiderman”
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Have you ever seen a face more likely to be someone you could make friends with? This is Christos, and Enid and Bob happily got the chance to see just how handy a friend can be. 1. Our most recent UnTour was two weeks of hiking, sightseeing and immersing ourselves in the beauty of…
Culture Clue: Philotimo: def. (through a non-Greek lens): CRAZY nice
UnTourists & Christos’s family, at their home for a dinner. (that’s me on the far right) Many of our Greek UnTourists comment on the extraordinary warmth of the Greek people they meet. (To be clear, many UnTourists comment on the warmth and friendliness of the people they meet on all their UnTours. We try to…
Michele & John Bohannon, our Untourists of the week
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Michele & John Bohannon, our UnTourists of the week, went on their Greece UnTour in 2010 (November is Greece month here at the Blog) and here are their answers…..sometime you don’t need a lot of words to say exactly what you think. 1. Tell us about your most recent UnTour: We spent 14 days in…
Vickie Kelber, Renaissance Woman
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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…
The wise women behind Untours Prague, Budapest and Austria
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As we move from May’s focus on Prague and Budapest into June’s insights on Austria, I want to introduce you to the dynamic duo delivering these delicious UnTours – meet Cathrin Baumbach and Sue Baker! If you know either of these brilliant women, you know that they know their stuff when it comes to anything…