1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Paris/Provence, September-October 2012. We are “going Dutch” in just three weeks, also! Gracieuse—where they stayed 2. Why did you choose to go there? Paris had always been on our must-see list. The opportunity to combine this with Provence was too good to pass by….
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Elaine and Cecilia Hruska (Untourists of the Week), the poster kids of “Sister Travel”
Sometimes our UnTourists of the Week answer our questions with one single answer, like the wonderful travelling twin sisters, Elaine and Cecilia Hruska: Tell us a little bit about your UnTours experiences. As one gets older, it seems like the birthdays that are most important are the ones that occur each decade. So when we…
Kathy & George Patience (Untourists of the Week) love, love, love Italy
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. The Amalfi Coast October 2012. 2. Why did you choose to go there? We love, love, love Italy!!! We had gone to Tuscany on an earlier UnTour adventure a few years before & had visited Venice, Rome, & Florence. So, we had heard how…
Monica & Pete Petersen (Untourists of the Week) Italo-philes extraordinaire
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We went for a month: two weeks in Tuscany and two weeks in Switzerland Oberland. We have made several UnTours to these places as we cannot seem to get these beauties out of our system! From the minute we arrive in Montalcino to Le…
Helen Behrens, Swiss-ophile and Untourist of the Week
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. In 2009, I went to Switzerland with my daughter and son-in-law. We stayed in Reuti with Hans and Behtli. I’ve stayed with them at least five times. From there we could get to most anywhere in Switzerland. And the view from the apartment is…
Eileen & Carl Evers, Untourists of the Week “not-on-our-radar” Holland…unforgettable!”
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Carl and I and two dear friends had a marvelous experience in April in Leiden, the Netherlands. We loved the country and our UnTours guides for the week. As was our experience with our last UnTours to Tuscany and Rome, we were met at…
Whitmel and Betty Swain, Untourists of the Week
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We took a three week tour of Italy, in this order: Amalfi, Umbria and Tuscany. Our apartment in Amalfi was on the waterfront, with a balcony overlooking a delightfully Italianate traffic circle filled with life and a view of the sea. In Umbria, we…
Ray and Lillian Nagle, Untourists of the Week, do a French triple play!
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We chose to experience an UnTour Sampler of Provence and Paris with an added week in Alsace. In Provence, we stayed at Margaillon 1 near Le Thor. Then onto Paris to the Lescot apartment. We finished out our three weeks in France in Ribeauvillé…
The third time in Tuscany is the charm; Joseph & Lynda Wood, Untourists of the Week
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. This was our third trip to Tuscany, and I think we may have got it right this time. The first time we were in awe of the area. Everywhere you looked was another postcard scene. We tried to do everything suggested in the UnTours…
James & Bridget Joy, Untourists of the Week: Alsace + Provence + Niece!
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. In September, 2010, Bridget and I and our niece Elizabeth Murphy went to Pernes-les-Fontaines in Provence for two weeks and drove to Ribeauvillé in Alsace for the wine harvest during the third week. 2. Why did you choose to go there? Our love of…