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…
Sarah & Clay have been on UnTours to Tuscany and Rome in 2011 and took the Portraits of Southern France cruise in 2012. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour cruise. Sarah and I enjoyed a Viking River Cruise in concert with UnTours. We flew from Kansas City to Marseilles, France via…
If you’re scrambling (like I am) to get your Valentine’s gift(s) in order, we’re trying to make it a bit easier on you by giving you the chance to get up to 14% off any UnTour. Head on over to our main site and check it out. Trust us, an UnTour is the right gift….
When Hal suggested in 2005 that we make our hometown of Media, PA, a Fair Trade town, I responded by laughing! But alas, it proved to be an idea whose time had come. Media was ready for that vision and 23 towns and cities from Boston to San Francisco have followed suit. Our foundation’s loans…
Photo by Alan Levine cc Vacations were invented as a way to spend more time with the ones we love. While there’s absolutely no truth to that, I do believe that that’s what vacations have become about, and thankfully so. When we decide to take a break from our daily lives and unwind, many times…