For me, this week’s timelapse of Andalusia is one of the most enlightening I’ve come across, because I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting Spain myself. Not only is it filled with amazing visuals but, because it was created by spain.info, Spain’s official tourism site, every shot is nicely labeled so I can know what…
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Bert and Idabelle Mills, Untourists of the Week: Swiss-o-philes at the core
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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…
Dennis and Anne Carpenter, Untourists of the Week – Support without the mush
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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,…
Around the world in 600 days
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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…
Untourists of the Week: Nancy and Thomas Witom, in Leiden
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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
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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
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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…
Timelapse of the week: Paris
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…
Ted and Margaret Ricks, Untourists of the Week, join up with their “Roman son”
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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…