1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. My last UnTour was to Alsace and Tuscany. Alsace was beautiful and we loved the little villages. Tuscany is simply amazing. 2. Why did you choose to go there? I chose Alsace as I had never been to that region of France. I chose…
Category Archives: UnTourist Stories
Christine Berry, Untourist of the Week: You just don’t have to follow the pack
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. My most recent UnTour was to Quebec. The people, history, scenery, and food were all UnTour-worthy! Quebec is a wonderfully walkable city. One thing I especially liked: all the charm and feel of Europe without the transatlantic flight! 2. Why did you choose to…
Jim and Marlene Cable, Untourists of the Week: Two weeks are better than one
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. This was the Swiss Oberland tour which offered and fulfilled the hope of covering points west and south that seemed a bit out of reach on our other Swiss visits. 2. Why did you choose to go there? We had done the Swiss Heartland…
Phil and Jane King, Untourists of the Week: Kids relive first trip to Switzerland
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent, and I believe our 14th, UnTour was to the City of Light, Paris. This was our fourth trip to Paris and our third UnTour there. It is an unbelievably beautiful city and so enjoyable to walk, both day and night. Plus,…
Bert and Idabelle Mills, Untourists of the Week: Swiss-o-philes at the core
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We stayed at the Esther apartment in Frutigen, hosted by wonderful people. Peter was amused when I asked to see his “bomb shelter!” We selected Frutigen in part because we desired to reach the Valais, Zermatt, and Lake Geneva area yet be close to…
Untourists of the Week: Nancy and Thomas Witom, in Leiden
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We spent two weeks (May 7-22, 2013) on the Holland UnTour. We were in the Frans Hals apartment in Leiden. Leiden is an ideal place to stay: a beautiful university town that didn’t feel the least bit touristy. Wonderful museums, too. 2. Why did…
Jim and Claire Graves, Untourists of the Week: and their wine is so good
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. In the fall of 2012, we took a 3-week UnTour in Italy: one week at the Poggiarellino wine farm in Tuscany, one at an olive farm in Umbria, and a third in Rome, where our apartment (Zingari) was close to the Colosseum. We had…
Paul and Michaela Gardiner, Untourists of the Week, three generations in Kandersteg
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. All our UnTours have been fabulous, but our favorite was the time we took our children, their spouses and our grandchildren to Kandersteg. 2. Why did you choose to go there? We wanted to share our favorite memories with our children. Plus, Switzerland has…
Ted and Margaret Ricks, Untourists of the Week, join up with their “Roman son”
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. My wife, Margaret, and I spent a glorious and unhurried week in Tuscany staying in an apartment on a farm with views of the rolling countryside dotted with terracotta roofed homes, olive orchards, and vineyards with carpets of wild mustard and red poppies. We…
Jane and Curtiss Conrad, Untourists of the Week: Let’s Go Again
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our last UnTour was to Greece. We had a spacious apartment in a square across from the steps to Napflio’s castle. 2. Why did you choose to go there? Poppyβwhere they stayed We chose Greece because we loved Barcelona and Amalfi and wanted to…