1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Last September we made a return visit to Paris. We stayed far away from the tourist areas and enjoyed a real Parisian neighborhood. Instead of vendors hawking trinkets we shopped in neighborhood stores and watched children playing and people going about their daily tasks….
Our guest Blogger this week is Suzanne Cotter, who’s promoting the Fair Trade Federation‘s May conference in Raleigh. We are great fans of the Fair Trade Federation and the integrity it brings to the Fair Trade movement. Here’s Suzanne………. Interested in Dedicated Fair Trade Businesses? Across the US and Canada, lots of dedicated, holistic fair…
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…
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…
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…