Mariana Lamaison Sears, our guest Blogger this week, attends our weekly Fair Trade Committee meetings along with her adorable daughter, Mora, pictured here. In addition to believing in trading fairly, Mariana, originally from Argentina, loves the outdoors, practicing yoga, writing, and staying home with her kids! Mariana just wrote a Blog on Fair Trade clothing…
UnTours’ TAKE: Before Sunrise (1995), directed by Richard Linklater, and starring a very young Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy, is the first in a series of three films, all very well reviewed. Central to each movie is the romance between Hawke and Delphy’s characters. This, the first of these movies, is set in Vienna. Essentially,…
Ellie & John have been on more than 16 UnTours and, most recently, have stayed at our Vaclav apartment in Prague, Wess apartment in Budapest, and Vermeer apartment in Leiden. 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Prague and Budapest May 2012…the thing that stands out still is the history that…
Photo by NS Newsflash CC My father-in-law is a diehard newspaper reader. The Washington Post, specifically. He reads that thing every day from cover to cover and then thoughtfully clips articles to send us that he thinks we will enjoy (i.e. should read). I, on the other hand, get my amalgamation of news through various…
The Book: The Italian Affair by Laura Frazer What our recommending UnTourist, Whitmel Swain, says about it: Tell us in a sentence or two what it is about?: When the author’s husband leaves her, she goes to Ischia to nurse her wounds & discovers a number o wonderful things including, of course, love Why did…
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour.: Our most recent UnTour was Rome, one of our favorite cities that we have visited many times, always staying in an apartment. The UnTours apartment near Piazza Navona was great and the transportation pass encouraged us to use all forms of public transportation, more than…
Our guest blogger this week, Aimee Ralph, is the wonderful intern for our Fair Trade Committee here in our hometown of Media, PA. She’s a Corporate Communications major with a minor in Civic and Community Engagement at Penn State Brandywine. She’s also an intern at the National MS Society in Philadelphia. She hopes to have…
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour.: My last one was to Umbria and loved it. Why did you choose to go there?: I had done Tuscany twice near Buonconvento at Poggio alla Rosa farmhouse. We had explored much of the region and Umbria was a new experience What is your favorite…
While our foundation invests in green businesses, we at the UnTours office try to walk lighter and greener on the planet. Worms compost our veggie scraps in our kitchen, solar panels generate a lot of our electricity, and we turn to places like Green America to give us guidance on easing up on our carbon…
Under the Tuscan Sun is well-known as a book and a movie. In our recent poll, readers rated Under the Tuscan Sun, the movie, as one they’d like to hear more about, so we will review both, Under the Tuscan Sun, the book and the movie. Here are our observations: About the Book: 1. The…