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…
A while back we had a great UnTours Cafe discussion about books set in UnTour locations. Here were some of your observations: “Reading books prior to a trip is a must for us. Jay tends to read non-fiction of the country…history, current political scene, statistics. Patricia tends to read either personal memoirs of present or…
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour.: Our UnTours experience is limited but by no means finalized. We have been to Switzerland & Austria & are currently considering plans to venture into Tuscany & Rome. The Austrian trip was our most recent. We were lodged in a great two bedroom apartment in…
Bruce and Marlene have been travelling with us since 19Elizabethkillough: Swiss Heartland six times, Swiss Oberland four times, Tuscany, the Rhine and Provence last year. They are booked to go back to Swiss Heartland and Oberland this year! Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We took a Viking ship down the…
This is the final of 6 posts in a series covering my 5 weeks in Greece, Istanbul and Italy. The other posts are linked at the bottom of this post. On a rather dreary Monday morning in early October I packed up the car, stopped for a coffee with a friend and then took my…
Photo by Bloodsworth Film Hal believes that money – and people for that matter! – should be working most of the time. So, when the foundation has funds waiting in the bank for a promised start date of a loan, we look for interim places to put those funds, where they can do some good…
Today marks the second in our series of posts reviewing movies and books that we think the independent traveler, and the UnTourist in particular, will love. Last Wednesday, we reviewed our first movie, A Good Year, and today, we’ll review our first book, or, in this case, introduce you to the inimitable Bill Bryson, an…