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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Untourists of the Week: Jackie Prince and Lilly Price
We don’t have a picture of our UnTourists of the Week this week, but we do have a shot of their favorite memory, the ‘dancing waters’ at the National Art Museum in Barcelona. Jackie travelled with her sister Lillys on our Spanish UnTours, Barcelona and Andalusia, and recently, when they were together on a family…
Untourists of the week: Joann and Gordon Pitz
Joann and Gordon Pitz, in front of the National Museum of Art in Barcelona How is taking an UnTour different from other ways of traveling? For many years we traveled independently of any tour group. This gave us maximum freedom, and enabled us to develop a sense of how people in other countries live. But…
Untourists of the week: Bob Crossley and Monica McAlpine
Monica and Bob….and the endless olive trees of Andalusia in the background. 1.Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our two weeks in Andalusia last September may have been our most unique UnTours trip so far. (This was our fourth UnTours experience;…
Untourist of the Week: Pam Nesbit
About the picture, Pam says: ” The picture is taken on The Sacred Way in Athens. I was pretty thrilled to be on the Sacred Way having read about Greece for years, so I was doing a little “Sacred Way” dance and my husband got hold of the camera…” 1. Tell us a little bit…
Brian Taussig-Lux: Untourist of the Week, Untourist-in-Chief
In a small change of pace, this week’s “UnTourist of the Week” is our General Manager here at UnTours, Brian Taussig-Lux. We thought our feature this month — Austria — couldn’t be complete without hearing from Brian. Back in 1983, when Brian (Hal Taussig’s nephew) joined the firm, his first assignment was to start the…
Untourists of the Week: Dian & Bob Reid
Here’s why there’s no picture of Bob & Diane in Vienna: “…none of our travel photos include the two of us. We are more interested in a uncluttered photo of the object of interest, I guess. Can you run a stock photo of one of our favorite sites in Vienna such as a beautiful park,…
Meet the Nemeceks: Untourists of the Week
Above is Al, happily ensconced in the Seiwald apartment, and Babs, happily capturing the beauty of Halstadt, one of the great daytrips recommended on our Austrian UnTour Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We stayed at the Seiwald apartment in Kuchl, Austria for three weeks. We found out about UnTours a…
Untourists of the week: Anne and Jack Newton
Here are Anne and Jack in one of our UnTour villages. The terrain is ideal as you have fabulous mountain scenery, but the terrain under your feet is flat! 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent UnTour experience was in the late spring of 2011 when we participated…
Untourists of the Week: Mary Ellen and Larry Goldfarb

Here are Larry and Mary Ellen Goldfarb at the Lennon (John) Wall in Prague. Instead of asking Larry and Mary Ellen our standard questions, we just chatted with them. The result is a laundry list of the things they really loved about their trip last year to Budapest and Prague: We loved the locations we…