Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour? When Marilee asked me some questions about our experiences with UnTours, the review of memories turned out to be fun for the most part, funny in some aspects, and always enlightening. A bit of background: we have completed 19 UnTours, with the 20th to be…
To continue our “meandering month” on the UnTours Blog, Wednesday finds us plucking a “Culture Clue” from the wonderful tripblog written by Norm and Barbara Graca on the UnTours Cafe of their Quebec UnTour. This excerpt is from is their Day 7 entry. We particularly like this day because they highlight how the dramatic geography…
Welcome to December….Potluck month on the UnTours Blog! Instead of our normal practice of featuring one particular UnTour Destination for the month, during the last month of 2012, we’re going to skip around a bit, hoping to catch a few of the real stars of our UnTour community that may have been missed. Today, we’d…
Along with this “Un-map”* of the cultural delights of Nafplio, here are excerpts from one of our more delighted Greek UnTourists on the joys of eating in Nafplio, Kaye Norman. To read more of her Nafplio adventures, click here. from Kay Norman’s UnTours Cafe Blog: Nafplio Greece, October 2010 “The town of Nafplio –…
Marcia and Oded on their three week adventure in their favorite place: Greece 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We spent a little over 3 weeks in Greece – – in THE PERFECT LITTLE TOWN of Nafplion. We had both been to Greece before several times, mostly separately and…
This is post number 2 of 6 in a series covering my 5 weeks in Greece, Istanbul and Italy. The other posts are linked at the bottom of this post. I had no idea what to expect of the city that spans two continents, neither as I was planning nor as we made our bumpy…
Ann Cockerill’s little boat that “begged to have it’s portrait painted.’ From an answer Ann gave to a question someone on the UnTours Cafe asked here about the lovely paintings she makes while on UnTours, and in this case, about this boat, that she found while on a Greek UnTour. We think it speaks very…
IceStone is still recovering from hosting five feet of Hurricane Sandy’s salty water in its factory. Here’s a short video on escorting the last bit of this unwanted guest off the premises. IceStone still has no electricity. However, between the natural lighting of its green factory and the delivery of electricity via a very long…
A recent testament to the healthy properties of the Mediterranean Diet, specifically the Greek diet, has inspired us here at UnTours. (Read the entire article in last week’s NY TImes magazine here: The Island Where People Forget to Die) This article profiles a Greek WWII veteran, Stamatis Moraitis, who came to the US in 1943,…
This is post number 1 of 6 in a series covering my 5 weeks in Greece, Istanbul and Italy. The other posts are linked at the bottom of this post. What is an Italo-phile like me to do when planning a vacation outside of Italy? Go to Greece! Prior to my overseas work assignment (more…