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Untourists of the Week: Elsa and Raymond Heald

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March 21, 2013 by Mtaussig

Ray leaving old Chapel with 15th century fresco on Wanda’s farm in Umbria. (inset is their photo of the fresco inside) 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. It was a dream vacation: 8 days on the Variety Voyager, the sleek 73-passenger yacht that put us ashore at the fabled ports…  


TravelNerd makes airports easier to manage

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March 18, 2013 by Nickfortunatus

Photo by Nicola cc I came across TravelNerd last week by way of my favorite travel tech website, Tnooz. As Tnooz stated, “TravelNerd is a much needed application for travelers.” And, unlike my last post, you don’t need a smartphone to use it (although you could download the iPhone app). So, how does TravelNerd make…  


Foundation Fridays: Clothes Encounters

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Untours Foundation

March 15, 2013 by Elizabethkillough

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…  


Film Review: Before Sunrise, Untours Setting: Vienna

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March 14, 2013 by Mtaussig

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,…  


Untourists of the Week: Ellie & John Hagner

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March 12, 2013 by Mtaussig

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…  


Umano lets you listen to your newspaper

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March 11, 2013 by Nickfortunatus

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…  


Warren and Nancy Brakensiek, Untourists of the Week

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March 5, 2013 by Mtaussig

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…  


Foundation Fridays: State of the Art

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March 1, 2013 by Elizabethkillough

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…