Meet Adriana, our local UnTours staff representative on the Barcelona UnTour. She is a great resource for our guests in Barcelona, resourceful, smart, full of city knowledge, and quick with a friendly smile. Like so many of our European staff members, Adriana has a fascinating background and a very rich professional life beyond her work with us….
It’s no secret that we love Europe. We’ve been hosting guests on apartment-based vacations in Europe for 40 years! But we’ve also fallen in love with Europe’s waterways over the years. The rivers of Europe cut through some of its most beautiful countryside and string together majestic cities and chaming smaller towns. A river cruise…
In part three of her series on Alsace, Sandra Kohler writes about Alsace’s history during the first and second world wars. She and her husband Walt (whose photos are featured here) have been on many UnTours, but Alsace was an especially captivating region for them. The photos above and just below are of the memorial…
The light in Tuscany has inspired painters and artists going back to the Renaissance. Indeed you will feel like you are moving through a painting most days, the landscape and setting are so lovely. We have hosted several painter groups in the area near Montalcino, on the Tuscany UnTour. Our farmhouse apartments there provide a…
We are continuing our tour of Ireland’s most beautiful peninsulas with a visit to the Beara, an easy drive from Kenmare, homebase to the Ireland UnTour. Less traveled than the other two peninsulas, the Beara Peninsula is a hidden paradise of quiet, winding roads through beautiful country dotted with small colorful villages and beaches….
When opting to vacation in an apartment instead of a hotel there are many advantages. Firstly, it makes it easier to immerse in the culture if you’re not returning to a sea of other tourists every evening, to a large, corporate-feeling hotel. Secondly, nothing can replace the warmth and welcoming environment an apartment can have…
This is the second post in a series by author and UnTourist Sandra Kohler on her eye-opening travels on an Alsace UnTour. Read her first post, about the vineyards and wines of Alsace, here. So much of what we saw and I have written about could be described as “things we’d expected to find…
Helen Graves has just joined our European team as the new UnTours host in Florence, Italy. Here she writes about her enduring love for the city she’s lived in for 30 years. You could say I’ve done my fair share of travelling. I was born in India, grew up in Scotland, and moved to…
In 2013 Steve Somerville returned to Greece for his second UnTour there. He has enjoyed many UnTour destinations over the years. Here is his account of Greece the second time around, along with some of his photos from the trip. Not long ago, my friend Lynne and I returned to Nafplio, Greece, for our…
This is our second post on the Iveragh Peninsula, better known as the Ring of Kerry. Read our first post here. Our series will continue, with features on the Dingle and Beara Peninsulas. Again, this post is based on travel by car from Kenmare, homebase of the Ireland UnTour. Visit the Skellig Ring to venture…