The UnTours Foundation has begun 2014 with a new loan recipient, Philly Compost. Why commercial compost, you might ask? The food waste problemOver 36 million tons (72 billion pounds!) of food waste reached landfills in 2011 in the United States, according to the EPA. That’s an estimated 1,400 calories per person, per day. Meanwhile food…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We enjoyed the Bavarian Castle/Salzburg sampler. 2. Why did you choose to go there? We saw a bit of Bavaria and northern Austria of a bus tour in 2006 and promised ourselves then to return and enjoy the area at a more leisurely pace….
Since I started working here way back in 2011, the UnTours regions have been calling on me to give them some attention. Actually, not just attention, but distinction. Now, I know they are all big enough to speak for themselves. They don’t need you to tell them they’re great; we all already know that. What…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Paris/Provence, September-October 2012. We are “going Dutch” in just three weeks, also! Gracieuse—where they stayed 2. Why did you choose to go there? Paris had always been on our must-see list. The opportunity to combine this with Provence was too good to pass by….
Shannon was a gift to me from my board, which saw better than I that I was drowning in work after Hal retired. Shannon was hired to be my amazing colleague, which she is indeed! A film editor by training, Shannon worked on several of Ken Burns’ film projects. You can see some of her…
M is for minarets, a dramatic part of Istanbul’s skyline, especially at night. Istanbul marks UnTour number ten for Sandra Kohler and Walt Hagenbuch. They were captivated (and occasionally overwhelmed) by their experiences in Istanbul. As a poet, Sandra has a keen eye for detail, and here her experience finds an outlet in this thoughtfully…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. The Amalfi Coast October 2012. 2. Why did you choose to go there? We love, love, love Italy!!! We had gone to Tuscany on an earlier UnTour adventure a few years before & had visited Venice, Rome, & Florence. So, we had heard how…
Photo by Samrat Mondal cc Every now and then, I get a chance to take a look at a travel app out there. As I’m an iPhone guy, I typically experience most of my travel apps through my phone: AirBnb, TripTracker, Hipmunk, Google Field Trip (review upcoming on this). It’s just so easy to find…
Castelluccio, the lentil capital of Italy, and an easy day trip on the Umbria UnTour There are so many ways to enjoy Italy, and our UnTour offerings there are an embarrassment of riches: major cities, gorgeous countryside, placid mountains, and dramatic seaside. You could run around for months and not see it all. But…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We went for a month: two weeks in Tuscany and two weeks in Switzerland Oberland. We have made several UnTours to these places as we cannot seem to get these beauties out of our system! From the minute we arrive in Montalcino to Le…