Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We combined a Viking River Cruise (from Amsterdam to Basel) with a one week UnTour on the Rhine, in St. Goar. It really was a great combination. Our Viking Cruise was enjoyable, the times were well-organized and the excursions off the boat were interesting and…
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Susan Croll: Untourist of the Week…at the Castle in Bavaria
Tell us about your most recent UnTour: In August 2011, my daughter and I returned to the German Castle for a week. It felt as if we were coming home. The Baron and Moritz greeted us upon arrival, treating us like old friends stopping for a visit. We stayed in the Carola Apartment, as we…
Castle Untourists of the Week: Paula and Sid Rueter
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Last year we took the Germany Castle Tour. After our experience last year, we will definitely take another UnTour vacation and are happy to see them include the new river cruises. Prior to taking our UnTours trip, we had taken one bus tour (which…
Jim & Meg Griffin: Rhine Untourists of the Week
Nothing quite whets the appetite for a trip more than memories of a gorgeous cafe with a gorgeous view. Thanks to Jim and Meg for these great pictures, and their great memories of their Rhine UnTour, which in turn was a way for them to relive the time they lived in Germany. Tell us a…
Our Untourist of the Week, Doris M! (her Untours Cafe moniker)
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,…
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…