Back in August, Dodge Amaral, Director of the Buenos Aires UnTour, made a trip to Argentina to contract new apartments and connect with our local staff person, Graciela Nealon. At the time, the seasons were the reverse of now. “Though being there in early August meant relatively cool temperatures, it was honestly a lovely respite…
Brian and Jan, the ultimate pros for the Swiss Heartland, on one of their many train trips throughout Switzerland. Brian and Jan nearly always stay at the Buetikofer chalet up on the Hasliberg in the village of Reuti on their Swiss UnTours. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our favorite…
Tosheka Designs has won our hearts for its job training and job creation in Kenya, its recycling program, and its beautiful purses created out of plastic bags. Nyokabi Mwangi, Tosheka’s associate director, was recently interviewed on a Kenyan television arts program. Here are the first two five-minute segments of that interview. Here’s segment one of…
Photo by Pit Thompson It is hard to think of tango without conjuring images of Buenos Aires, the dance’s birthplace. Indeed the culture of the dance and the national identity are intertwined like, well, like dance partners in a smoldering embrace. Though danced around the globe, the development of tango weaves in and out of…
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…