Photo by lenngrayes cc I recently heard that we in the US spend more time watching cooking shows than actually cooking. So, why swim upstream! Here’s a great and amusing 3 and a half-minute cooking video from a favorite foundation investment: IceStone. Here’s to Chef JFab at IceStone for keeping a sense of humor in…
Long-time UnTourists Steve and Karen Savel recently returned from our new Istanbul UnTour. This marked their 21st UnTour! How did Istanbul compare? Read what Steve had to say about their exciting time in a city they adore. Q: You were an early advocate for an Istanbul UnTour, asking us to add it to our offerings…
Bob & Doris Miller are some of our most active members in the UnTourist community (even though, in their nineties, they say their European wanderings are behind them.) In the years between 1994 and 2007, they regularly led trips of their hiking Club to Switzerland. Bob still contributes regularly and enthusiastically to Idyllchat, our email…
Photo from Wesleyan University In late June, President Obama gave a speech on climate change, which has received little media attention since. In his speech, the president suggested that citizens and communities consider investing in things that help the planet and divesting in things that don’t. Our guest blogger, Dr. Alan Wright, takes on the…
Subject and portrait. This and all photos below by Glen McClure. If you have been reading the UnTours Blog, you are already acquainted with Glen McClure, a loyal UnTourist and brilliant photographer. You may have seen the images from his spring trip to Vence, France. But what you may not know is that this trip…
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent UnTour was a three week sampler to Paris, Rome and Florence. We saw many of the highlights in all three places but would have loved to stay three weeks in each location. We enjoy the Impressionists so Paris was a wonderful spot;…
Last time, we introduced you to EcoZoom, makers of efficient cookstoves. Here’s an update from Amanda West, one of the company’s founders. We just opened our second office in Nairobi, Kenya and are introducing a new cookstove there that we designed WITH cooks. Meet the Zoom Jet! It’s a charcoal only cookstove that reduces fuel…
Alan’s picture of Jo, in Amalfi last year Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. In Austria, we stayed in the comfortable Seiwald apartment in Kuchl. The Kuchl location was ideal for visiting Salzburg and numerous nearby small villages. The town evoked memories of the Sound of Music. The lake and mountain…
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour and why you chose that particular destination? Our last traditional UnTour was to the Rhine, staying in St. Goar in September 2007. Since then, we have stayed in Beaune, France with The Right Vacation Rental program, and we are booked on a Russian River Cruise…
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour and why you chose that particular destination? We enjoyed two UnTours in Spain in 2008. First, we spent two weeks in Fuente Tojar (near Priego de Cordoba), enjoying auto trips to Granada, Cordoba, Sevilla. Then to Malaga, where we turned in the car, and flew…