At UnTours, along with sending you on trips that are especially good for living like a local, we also like to provide you with a handy ‘roadmap of the culture’. We think if we can provide you with a few rules of thumb, we can fast forward you into a place where you understand the…
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Jim & Meg Griffin: Rhine Untourists of the Week
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Nothing quite whets the appetite for a trip more than memories of a gorgeous cafe with a gorgeous view. Thanks to Jim and Meg for these great pictures, and their great memories of their Rhine UnTour, which in turn was a way for them to relive the time they lived in Germany. Tell us a…
Foundation Fridays: TLC
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If they can handle it, the UnTours Foundation loan recipients receive as much technical assistance and TLC as we can muster. Frequently, we call on experts for additional help. Today, Media, PA, retailer, Andrew Britton, offered several hours of time to Lucy Lau Bigham, co-owner of Tosheka Designs, producer of beautiful bags and purses made…
Germany: A Roadmap for a Culture
The first Wednesday of the month, the UnTours Blog will give you an overview of a culture in an UnTour destination. Think of it as a bird’s eye view, or a roadmap to the places you’ll visit on your UnTour. Generalizations about people are usually a bad idea. There are some generalizations about cultures, however, …
Our Untourist of the Week, Doris M! (her Untours Cafe moniker)
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This week’s UnTourist of the Week, Doris Matick because of her lovely photos of Spain that you see in the slideshow below. But when we asked her for her UnTour impressions, she went all over the map. Which is not to say, she doesn’t love Spain. Check out her wonderful blog post on UnTours Cafe,…
Foundation Fridays: Dogs Allowed
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Garstang, UK, the World’s First Fairtrade Town, is one of Media, PA’s sister cities. The fairtrade town concept is the brainchild of Quaker and veterinarian, Bruce Crowther, a Garstang resident. Bruce has now inspired over 1,000 towns and cities in 22 nations on 5 continents to go Fair Trade. Bruce tries every which way to…
Culture Clue: Barcelona had OTHER amazing architects!
I am surprisingly obsessed with Antoni Gaudi and his wonderful fanciful buildings, for someone who isn’t a big architecture buff and who’s never actually seen a Gaudi building. My Gaudi obsession is quite recent so, when Gordon and Joann Pitz’s (our UnTourists of the Week last week) wonderful travel logs pointed out that he had…
The Most Unforgettable 7 Minutes in Barcelona
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Photo by Jaume Meneses Just to make sure we’re starting off on the right foot here, no, I’m not talking about that old high school party game, 7 Minutes in Heaven. However, the seven minutes I am referring to do have a bit of rarefied air about them. If you’re in Barcelona and are looking…
Untourists of the Week: Jackie Prince and Lilly Price
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We don’t have a picture of our UnTourists of the Week this week, but we do have a shot of their favorite memory, the ‘dancing waters’ at the National Art Museum in Barcelona. Jackie travelled with her sister Lillys on our Spanish UnTours, Barcelona and Andalusia, and recently, when they were together on a family…
Foundation Fridays: The Big Cheese
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In profiling the UnTours Foundation Board, there is of course the big cheese, Hal Taussig. The fact that Hal is co-founder and president of this almost 20-year old foundation is a bit odd in that Hal doesn’t believe in non-profits as a serious tool for addressing real change in the world. But Hal had business…