Photo by UnTourist Ellen Fusco Before we get started on our new 2013 content, we wanted to ask YOU, our reader, to join us. If you’d like to see what we’re talking about, go check out last year’s UnTourist of the Week posts. It’s a very simple (and painless) process. We ask you to give…
Brian and Jan, the ultimate pros for the Swiss Heartland, on one of their many train trips throughout Switzerland. Brian and Jan nearly always stay at the Buetikofer chalet up on the Hasliberg in the village of Reuti on their Swiss UnTours. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our favorite…
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…
Welcome to December….Potluck month on the UnTours Blog! Instead of our normal practice of featuring one particular UnTour Destination for the month, during the last month of 2012, we’re going to skip around a bit, hoping to catch a few of the real stars of our UnTour community that may have been missed. Today, we’d…
Marcia and Oded on their three week adventure in their favorite place: Greece 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We spent a little over 3 weeks in Greece – – in THE PERFECT LITTLE TOWN of Nafplion. We had both been to Greece before several times, mostly separately and…
Ann Cockerill’s little boat that “begged to have it’s portrait painted.’ From an answer Ann gave to a question someone on the UnTours Cafe asked here about the lovely paintings she makes while on UnTours, and in this case, about this boat, that she found while on a Greek UnTour. We think it speaks very…
Have you ever seen a face more likely to be someone you could make friends with? This is Christos, and Enid and Bob happily got the chance to see just how handy a friend can be. 1. Our most recent UnTour was two weeks of hiking, sightseeing and immersing ourselves in the beauty of…
Michele & John Bohannon, our UnTourists of the week, went on their Greece UnTour in 2010 (November is Greece month here at the Blog) and here are their answers…..sometime you don’t need a lot of words to say exactly what you think. 1. Tell us about your most recent UnTour: We spent 14 days in…
A Leiden canal under Holland’s ever-changing skies (Photo by Daniel Yett) This Monday, the UnTour bloggers (here in our suburban Philadelphia offices) have a certain lady in mind…..Sandy. As in Hurricane Sandy. We hope everyone is battened down properly, if you are in the large lady’s path. If by some chance, you find our…
Jack, Lila and Jack (the grandson!) in where else? Holland! If there was only one family that could be the “UnTourists of the Week” for Holland, it might just have to be Jack and Lila Korvink. Jack and Lila come to the Holland UnTour by a slightly UN-typical route. Jack was born in Holland. As…