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February 23, 2014 by Nickfortunatus

Since I started working here way back in 2011, the UnTours regions have been calling on me to give them some attention. Actually, not just attention, but distinction. Now, I know they are all big enough to speak for themselves. They don’t need you to tell them they’re great; we all already know that. What…  

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Monday Memories: Lost and Found in Andalusia

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Andalusia Spain

October 21, 2013 by Nickfortunatus

This week’s Monday Memory is from UnTourist Laura Morris. We did a two-week UnTour in Andalusia in May 2013 with two friends. It was wonderful. We stayed with Maria in a marvelous 4-bedroom house in the middle of an olive grove outside Fuente Tojar. The one mistake we made was thinking we would be able…  

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Untourists of the Week: Elizabeth & Jeff Rinck

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Andalusia Spain UnTourist Stories

October 9, 2013 by Mtaussig

1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We experienced a Spain Sampler: we spent one week in Barcelona and one week in Andalusia, outside the tiny town of Carcabuey.  2. Why did you choose to go there? Although we had taken four previous UnTours, we had never taken a Sampler trip….  

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Untourists of the Week: Elsa and Raymond Heald

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March 21, 2013 by Mtaussig

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…  

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Vickie Kelber, Renaissance Woman

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September 17, 2012 by Mtaussig

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…  

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Our Untourist of the Week, Doris M! (her Untours Cafe moniker)

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July 30, 2012 by Mtaussig

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,…  

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Culture Clue: Barcelona had OTHER amazing architects!

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Barcelona Spain

July 25, 2012 by Mtaussig

 I am surprisingly obsessed with Antoni Gaudi and his wonderful fanciful buildings, for someone who isn’t a big architecture buff and who’s never actually seen a Gaudi building. My Gaudi obsession is quite recent so, when Gordon and Joann Pitz’s (our UnTourists of the Week last week) wonderful travel logs pointed out that he had…  

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The Most Unforgettable 7 Minutes in Barcelona

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Barcelona Spain Travel Tips

July 24, 2012 by Nickfortunatus

Photo by Jaume Meneses Just to make sure we’re starting off on the right foot here, no, I’m not talking about that old high school party game, 7 Minutes in Heaven. However, the seven minutes I am referring to do have a bit of rarefied air about them. If you’re in Barcelona and are looking…  

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