Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent UnTour was a three week sampler to Paris, Rome and Florence. We saw many of the highlights in all three places but would have loved to stay three weeks in each location. We enjoy the Impressionists so Paris was a wonderful spot;…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our lastest UnTour was to Paris last spring. We stayed in the Daguerre (sp) apt for two weeks and loved it! The street market around the corner was wonderful and we enjoyed shopping for great things to eat each day. The metro stop was…
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…
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…
As we March ahead with 2012, I feel it is important to introduce you to the terrific two that make UnTours France and UnTours Quebec City so incroyable and filled with that, how do you say?, je ne sais quoi. Meet Dodge Amaral and Mia Lehmann! If you’re even entertaining the thought of going to…
There are two kinds of travellers: some take trips, while others are really “tryin on a new life” on each journey This second kind of traveler dreams of moving abroad, dropping everything, and truly inhabiting a locale they’ve fallen in love with on a trip. One might compare this to daydreaming,while you’re on a…
When planning today’s blog post about getting around Paris by bus, Dodge Amaral (our resident Paris Expert) shared this piece he received a few years ago from longtime UnTourist Judith Wagner. She writes of a trip to Paris with her mother and how taking the buses gave her a much more Parisian experience. Enjoy! Riding…
It may be true what they say: “In Europe, one speaks with one’s hands and feet!” and it is certainly true in the gestures that accompany the beautiful French language. Of all the gestures, one has its own name: the Gallic shrug. It gets our vote for one of the most versatile and subtle ways…
Paris just feels right, doesn’t it? I was there this past fall for work and just fell in love with La Ville-Lumière all over again. In fact, in this month’s UnTours Eurozine, I wrote about how Paris makes me feel. Here’s an excerpt: “The first time I went to Paris, I was barely out of…
1 and 2. We asked Bill two questions:”Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour.” and “What is your favorite UnTours memory?” and here’s his answer: Late in October 2009, we took an Air France flight out of Dulles to Paris. My wife needs assistance in walking, so we were placed on the…