1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We experienced a Spain Sampler: we spent one week in Barcelona and one week in Andalusia, outside the tiny town of Carcabuey. 2. Why did you choose to go there? Although we had taken four previous UnTours, we had never taken a Sampler trip….
Sometimes we like to vary the format of the UnTourist of the Week. When we asked Emily Kauppi if she’d like to be featured on our blog, she replied” “You undoubtedly don’t remember, but we met MANY years ago. My first Swiss UnTour was 1986. One of my priorities this UnTour is to write Hal,…
Jim & Dawna are celebrating their 25th anniversary next year and UnTours is proud to be helping them to gather family and friends in Siena, Italy for the occasion. They’ll be occasional guest bloggers this year, letting us eavesdrop on the challenges and delights of organizing a “big trip.” This is their second post so…
Today and tomorrow, we feature a little variation on the UnTourist of the Week theme. Jim Moore and Dawna Warren were featured on this blog earlier this year. (And can offer only these quite blurry photos of themselves. Their excuse? They say they are too busy appreciating where they are to get better photos of…
Woops, we were a little topsy-turvy this week. Our excerpts of Susan Umberger’s delightful account of her Venice-Tuscany UnTour Sampler came to you backwards, as she was in Venice (today’s entry) first, and Tuscany (last week’s entry)afterwards . But you can read her entire triplog here, in the proper order! My husband and I arrived…
Excerpts from Susan Umberger’s: Easter in Tuscany April 2011. Susan has kindly offered to let us excerpt some of her Italian wanderings from 2011. If you like this, see more here. We made the long drive from Venice to Buonconvento not without a couple of incidents—getting lost in Florence (what a crazy city to drive in!)…
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour and why you chose that particular destination? It was a delayed honeymoon for us. I love Switzerland and this was my 7th trip but the 1st for my husband, David. I really wanted to go while our legs and knees “worked!” Why did you choose…
Bob & Doris Miller are some of our most active members in the UnTourist community (even though, in their nineties, they say their European wanderings are behind them.) In the years between 1994 and 2007, they regularly led trips of their hiking Club to Switzerland. Bob still contributes regularly and enthusiastically to Idyllchat, our email…
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent UnTour was a three week sampler to Paris, Rome and Florence. We saw many of the highlights in all three places but would have loved to stay three weeks in each location. We enjoy the Impressionists so Paris was a wonderful spot;…
Alan’s picture of Jo, in Amalfi last year Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. In Austria, we stayed in the comfortable Seiwald apartment in Kuchl. The Kuchl location was ideal for visiting Salzburg and numerous nearby small villages. The town evoked memories of the Sound of Music. The lake and mountain…