1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We took a three week tour of Italy, in this order: Amalfi, Umbria and Tuscany. Our apartment in Amalfi was on the waterfront, with a balcony overlooking a delightfully Italianate traffic circle filled with life and a view of the sea. In Umbria, we…
How many members of the Swiss team do you recognize?Extra credit if you can name the three current staff members not pictured! The sun and gray clouds were battling it out as I boarded the train to Lucerne from Meiringen on October 20. After winding up the mountain to the Bruenig Pass, my colleague Margrit…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We chose to experience an UnTour Sampler of Provence and Paris with an added week in Alsace. In Provence, we stayed at Margaillon 1 near Le Thor. Then onto Paris to the Lescot apartment. We finished out our three weeks in France in Ribeauvillé…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. This was our third trip to Tuscany, and I think we may have got it right this time. The first time we were in awe of the area. Everywhere you looked was another postcard scene. We tried to do everything suggested in the UnTours…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. In September, 2010, Bridget and I and our niece Elizabeth Murphy went to Pernes-les-Fontaines in Provence for two weeks and drove to Ribeauvillé in Alsace for the wine harvest during the third week. 2. Why did you choose to go there? Our love of…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We spent 1 week in Vienna and 1 week in Paris. However, our most memorable was the month we stayed in Paris to celebrate our 50th anniversary. Truly outstanding trip 2. Why did you choose to go there? Vienna was always a place we…
Our UnTourists of the Week, Andrew & Diana Stevens mentioned some of the more unforgettable aspects of their latest UnTour, including the glories of walking (“The Walk of the Gods” is an unforgettable one) the allure of the ubiquitous lemon orchards, We’ve curated a few gems from the internet to illustrate what the Stevens were…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent UnTour took us to the village of Amalfi on the Amalfi Coast. This vacation spot provided us with an unexpected mixture of local/tourist, hustle/serenity, activity/rest and nature/architecture. Our apartment faced the sea but the traffic circle, complete with bus stops, was…
This week’s Monday Memory is from UnTourist Linda Bonin. During our second two week stay in Paris, we stumbled upon this lovely passage while observing large groups of people wander through its entrance. After viewing the passage with hordes of others, we returned early the following morning to capture this shot of an empty Princess…
In addition to lots of good things, like children going to school and land farmed sustainably, Fair Trade requires Fair Trade importers to pay farmers a “premium” at the end of the growing season. Fair Trade farmers then decide as a community how to spend the premium often investing in schools and health clinics. Here’s…