This week’s Monday Memory is from UnTourists Vickie Kelber and George Wilhelm. I have no idea who these two people are! Seriously, this is us in front of our first UnTours apartment in Kaiserstuhl, Switzerland in 1991. We felt so fortunate to have found this apartment and UnTours. Our landlady and landlord, Sepp and Rosemarie…
Category Archives: Switzerland
Untourist of the Week: Emily Kauppi comes “home” to Switzerland
Sometimes we like to vary the format of the UnTourist of the Week. When we asked Emily Kauppi if she’d like to be featured on our blog, she replied” “You undoubtedly don’t remember, but we met MANY years ago. My first Swiss UnTour was 1986. One of my priorities this UnTour is to write Hal,…
Untourists of the Week: Cherie & David Fleenor
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour and why you chose that particular destination? It was a delayed honeymoon for us. I love Switzerland and this was my 7th trip but the 1st for my husband, David. I really wanted to go while our legs and knees “worked!” Why did you choose…
Robert & Doris Miller, Untourists of the Week
Bob & Doris Miller are some of our most active members in the UnTourist community (even though, in their nineties, they say their European wanderings are behind them.) In the years between 1994 and 2007, they regularly led trips of their hiking Club to Switzerland. Bob still contributes regularly and enthusiastically to Idyllchat, our email…
Untourist of the Week: Edythe Salzman
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…
Mary & Bill Martin: Untourists of the Week
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Mary and I love Switzerland and UnTours. Our most recent trip was in Aug/Sep 2010 to Hasliberg-Reuti in Switzerland. We spent 2 weeks at the Pollux apartment with its incredible views of the Wetterhorn mountain group, the Eiger, and our local village (Reuti). Shortly…
Donna and Chuck Beck, Untourists of the Week
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent UnTour was at the Hastalska apartment in the Jewish Quarter in Prague. This was a great location for exploring the city both on foot and by public transportation. The apartment was delightful, well furnished and equipped, and we enjoyed the small…
Harold & Ruthie McLeod: Untourists of the Week
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent trip was our 10th UnTour. Of these, it was our 8th UnTour to Switzerland and our 7th to stay in Meiringen. As usual we did some of our favorite hikes: Grandmother’s Walk; Grandfather’s Walk; Giessbach Falls to Iseltwald; Brunig Pass to…
Untourist of the Week: Helen Dorangrichia, Grandmother Extraordinaire
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….
Untourists of the Week: Elsa and Raymond Heald
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…