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,…
Category Archives: UnTourist Stories
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…
Untourists of the Week: Pat and Roger Roslansky
Pat and Roger apologise that the pictures don’t really show them (that’s Pat on the right and Roger on the left.) They say that when they travel, they’re so interested in what they are seeing, they rarely take pictures of one another. Also, Roger says, that as an architect, he takes way too many pictures…
Jean and Jim Hall: Untourists of the Week
This week we depart from our normal question and answer format to let the Halls tell you about their trip in their own words. In June of 2011 my husband and I took a Prague/Vienna UnTour, and were very happy with the whole UnTours approach. The best thing was the accomodations! In Prague we…
Untourists of the week: the Flynn family
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. In 2011, we visited the Swiss Heartland for three weeks. This was our second UnTour and our second time in Lungern. Both times we stayed at the Gasser-Müggler apartment; the hosts are a lovely older couple, and the property is warm and welcoming to our…
Untourist of the Week: Bill and Marj HIll
Our Bear friend is in the short hallway between the Woodcarvers school and Jobin’s in Brienz Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We stayed four weeks in our favorite place, Chalet Berit in Sachseln in the Swiss Heartland UnTour region. We became so close to the Greuterts and Omlins during our…
Untourist of the Week: John Meyn
Attention, wine and hiking aficionados. John Meyn, our UnTourist of the Week, could be the poster child for the traveling wine and hiking enthusiast. We were delighted to hear of his adventures especially hiking in the under appreciated and truly spectacular Valais, a part of Switzerland treasured by the Swiss but lesser known internationally. John’s…
Jerry and Sandy Nolan…Untourists of the Century?
Jerry and Sandy Nolan, having lunch with two former UnTour staff, Marianne Rosa and Madeline Thöni. With eighteen Swiss UnTours under their belt, Jerry and Sandy must be exceeding the “UnTourist of the Week” category. During our interview for this peice, they kidded us that they think “UnTourist of the Month, Year, Decade, Century” might…