1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Two years ago, we visited Frau Von Moos in Giswil. We lucked into a great music festival at Ballenberg, a great concert at a church in Meiringen and, did I mention Shoenbuel, Planplatten, the Aare Gorge and the multitude of spectacular views? In Luzern,…
When I came across this video, I just thought to myself, “Now, this guy is redefining what ‘UnTours-y’ means.” I think anyone who has taken an UnTour, much less thought about it, would enjoy this video. On a 3-year motorcycle world tour he dubbed The Modern Motorcycle Diaries, the man now known on Twitter as…
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…
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…
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…
Photo by UnTourist Thomas Buckhout You may or may not know that I am simply in love with timelapse videos of my favorite travel destinations. I actually didn’t know I was until I came across this one last year. Since then, I’ve been consuming them at an alarming rate. I thought you may be interested…
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…
Cathrin Baumbach has worked for UnTours since 2001 and is a Jill of all trades here. She began her UnTours career on the Swiss Team and has gone on to run what we affectionately call the Boho (Bohemian) Team, covering our destinations in Austria and Germany, along with Prague and Budapest. She also runs the…
Photo by Allen Watkin cc If I could travel more often, I would be thrilled. And, I’m pretty sure I’m not the only person who feels that way. I should just get up and go, right? Well, there’s work, of course. There’s being a husband, and trying to be a good one, at that. And,…
Elizabeth and I had a wonderful visit this week from Molly Hayward, founder of Cora. Molly is a passionate young entrepreneur from the Philadelphia area who really believes in changing how capitalism works. As Elizabeth remarked to Molly, “Hal will love you!” Cora offers an empowering perspective on women’s menstrual health, both for women here…