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….
Editor’s note about the photo: We thought a perfect complement to Andrea’s essay about getting beyond the stereotypes of a culture was one of Glenn McClure‘s many amazing portraits he takes while on Italian UnTours. See more of Glenn’s photos here at his website, or on this blog. The thoughtfulness he puts into his photographs…
I have a theory that the UnTour way of travel changes how you see things. Pulled out of your routine and placed into a setting of beauty, with some friendly, knowledgeable people to set you out on the right foot, many of us find that this way of travel is not just a good trip. …
Who goes to Italy to drink beer? Those in the know. Italians have long enjoyed beer with their pizza, but refined and complex micro brews have replaced the old Peroni. Indeed birra artiginale (Italian craft beer) is putting Italy on the world brewing map. Unlike their northern European counterparts, Italian brewers are not bound by…
Italian coffee rules. We don’t need to tell you that. We’ve gotten much more sophisticated as a coffee-drinking people ourselves. Surely most of us know our cappuccino from our macchiato well before we set foot on a plane. (We may have even gotten a twenty ounce latte at the drive-thru coffee shop on the way…
Glen and his wife, Marshall, have been on 5 UnTours, travelling with us first in 1999: Tuscany (1999,2005), Umbria (2006), Venice-Umbria (2007), Tuscany- Umbria (2011). Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We spent one week in Tuscany and one week in Umbria. I am a professional photographer and I love to photograph…
A festival at one of UnTours’ home villages, Murlo is one way that you can see the strong bonds of community that are typical in an Italian community; it’s one hallmark of the Italian culture. In an attempt to better understand Italy, today’s culture clue is an overview of some of Italian culture’s more famous…