1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Carl and I and two dear friends had a marvelous experience in April in Leiden, the Netherlands. We loved the country and our UnTours guides for the week. As was our experience with our last UnTours to Tuscany and Rome, we were met at…
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour and why you chose that particular destination? Our last UnTour experience took us to Atrani on the Amalfi Coast for two weeks and then for another two weeks to Locarno, Switzerland to enjoy the beautiful Ticino Region. Both areas suited our needs to for a…
A note from Helen: The family pix do not include me since I was the photographer. I am looking forward to a Swiss UnTour with a friend in August of 2013 and another visit to Kandersteg with grandsons in 2014. UnTours does it right!!! 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour….
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 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….
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour? When Marilee asked me some questions about our experiences with UnTours, the review of memories turned out to be fun for the most part, funny in some aspects, and always enlightening. A bit of background: we have completed 19 UnTours, with the 20th to be…
One of my favorite definitions of culture is “Groups of people solving problems over time.”. It’s an interesting puzzle to take a glance at Dutch ‘problems’ throughout their history, and deduce from the solutions they found, what sort of culture is the result. Wikipedia, described the Dutch, in its first paragraph as ‘a seafaring people…
A Leiden canal under Holland’s ever-changing skies (Photo by Daniel Yett) This Monday, the UnTour bloggers (here in our suburban Philadelphia offices) have a certain lady in mind…..Sandy. As in Hurricane Sandy. We hope everyone is battened down properly, if you are in the large lady’s path. If by some chance, you find our…
A bicycle bridge in the background, just one display of the awesome infrastructure Holland has created for the bicyclist citizen. While biking has been prevalent in Holland since the advent of the bicycle, Holland has not always had the bike friendly culture is it now. That was a surprise. I had always been under the…
Jack, Lila and Jack (the grandson!) in where else? Holland! If there was only one family that could be the “UnTourists of the Week” for Holland, it might just have to be Jack and Lila Korvink. Jack and Lila come to the Holland UnTour by a slightly UN-typical route. Jack was born in Holland. As…