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…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…