Join me in charming Rudesheim on the Rhine, an easy day trip from our German Rhine UnTour. With its vineyard-covered hills, distant castles, and narrow cobbled lanes and courtyards, it is one darling town. So cute, in fact, that we often bring our UnTour guests there for a special tour of the museums in town….
Right around the time those of us on the East Coast are bemoaning the long, cold winter, the Philadelphia Flower Show launches with its colorful blooms promising good things to come. As the world’s biggest and oldest indoor flower show, the Philadelphia Flower Show draws gardeners from all over the country. Cathrin Baumbach, one of…
There’s something supremely unique about Ireland. Maybe it’s the friendly people or the sturdy, homey architecture. Perhaps it’s the variety of landscapes, from mountains, cliffs, rolling hills and forest. Or maybe it’s just the warmth of walking into an Irish pub and enjoying a pint of Guinness with strangers that soon become friends. Whatever it…
One of our favorite day trips on our popular Alsace UnTour is a nice break from the bucolic countryside and wine road. Strasbourg is the biggest city in the Alsace region, with a population of close to 800,000. It has been at an international crossroads for centuries. It wears its rich history in the cabled…
The Amalfi Coast is a place of dramatic beauty, of pastel villages built into cliffs and hillsides overlooking sandy beaches and shining sea. Anyone who has taken our Amalfi Coast UnTour will tell you about its natural beauty. But one thing that surprises some travelers to the region is the quality of the local cuisine!…
We love Nafplio! This lovely ancient seaside town is the homebase of our Greece UnTour and offers the perfect combination of charm, sophistication, views and access to the wider Peloponnese. Nafplio has a population of 12,000, and is considered by many to be Greece’s prettiest town. It is located only two hours south of Athens…
Cities can be a lot of fun to share with kids, with their parks and museums and markets and rich histories. And now that UnTours has added the Italian cities to the Kids Stay Free program, you can tour young travelers though the ancient sites of Rome, the carfree alleys and canals of Venice, and…
As one of the most enchanting cities in Europe, Salzburg exudes a lively air of spontaneity—this despite its rich history as the seat of the sometimes dour, always pompous prince-archbishops. Our Austria UnTour places you on the outskirts of this beautiful burg. Here are nine sights you shouldn’t miss! 1. Hohensalzburg Castle The…
Isle sur Sorgue is a charming town in Provence, one of the hometown villages of our Provence UnTour. It is also well known as a center for the antique trade and for its lovely location, at the foot of the Vaucluse plateau. Isle-sur-Sorgue is known as the Venice of Provence because of the canals that pass…
Photographer David Hessell joined us on the Tuscany UnTour a few years ago and brilliantly captured the region in the full flush of late summer. As we face a cold and drab January, here are some of his beautiful images. We like to think of sunflowers as nature’s antidepressant, a perfect foil for the short,…