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…
This week’s UnTourist of the Week, Doris Matick because of her lovely photos of Spain that you see in the slideshow below. But when we asked her for her UnTour impressions, she went all over the map. Which is not to say, she doesn’t love Spain. Check out her wonderful blog post on UnTours Cafe,…
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…
Here are Larry and Mary Ellen Goldfarb at the Lennon (John) Wall in Prague. Instead of asking Larry and Mary Ellen our standard questions, we just chatted with them. The result is a laundry list of the things they really loved about their trip last year to Budapest and Prague: We loved the locations we…
After every UnTour, we ask our clients which aspects of their trip they would want to share with anyone thinking of traveling to that particular location. As finding a good place to eat is one of the toughest things to do when you’re in a foreign country, I’d like to share with you some of…
Photo credit: zolakoma While Budapest proper offers a veritable bevy of things to do, see and eat, sometimes you just want to see what else is out there – not because you’ve seen all the city has to offer, but just because you don’t want to travel halfway around the world and feel like you…
Pat and Roger apologise that the pictures don’t really show them (that’s Pat on the right and Roger on the left.) They say that when they travel, they’re so interested in what they are seeing, they rarely take pictures of one another. Also, Roger says, that as an architect, he takes way too many pictures…
Jim and Kathy Snyder went to Prague, Budapest and Vienna in 2011. Here are their impressions. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We went to all three cities and they were all great in their own way. Prague highlights were The Charles Bridge (We could walk there in five minutes from…
“Behind the Iron Curtain” is a phrase familiar to Americans past the age of 40. Any trip into the UnTours of Prague or Budapest will surely stir up those blunted, but not forgotten, images. Yet today, Budapest, with its broad boulevards and luxurious spas, often dubbed the little Paris of central Europe, seems a far…
The unforgettable Szechenyi public baths in Budapest The spa culture — going to a hot spring to relax — has been in place in Budapest for millennia. The word spa is often said to derive from the Latin words “Sanitas Per Aquam” which means healing through water. Located on the Danube, at the start of…