Photo credit to Cha già José (license) Although UnTours are about so much more than the great apartments you stay in, we want to give you an idea of the types of apartments we have to help you make more informed decisions when choosing your Untour. So, each week, we’ll be featuring a property for…
“Behind the Iron Curtain” is a phrase familiar to Americans past the age of 40. Any trip into the UnTours of Prague or Budapest will surely stir up those blunted, but not forgotten, images. Yet today, Budapest, with its broad boulevards and luxurious spas, often dubbed the little Paris of central Europe, seems a far…
Photo courtesy of Prague Municipal House Whether you like to peer at passers-by, awe at architecture or just savor some strudel, Kavarna Obecni dum is a must-stop the next time you’re in Prague and feel a rumble in your tummy. Its name literally means Common House Café and, since it’s housed in Prague’s historic Municipal…
This week we depart from our normal question and answer format to let the Halls tell you about their trip in their own words. In June of 2011 my husband and I took a Prague/Vienna Untour, and were very happy with the whole UnTours approach. The best thing was the accomodations! In Prague we…
When a cocoa farmer visited from Ghana, she told us how the men had to do more work under the Fair Trade system. Before Fair Trade, women and children harvested the cocoa while many men saw their roles as selling the cocoa and controlling the funds from the cocoa sales. With Fair Trade, children go…
Although UnTours are about so much more than the great apartments you stay in, we want to give you an idea of the types of apartments we have to help you make more informed decisions when choosing your Untour. So, each week, we’ll be featuring a property for you. Enjoy! VlasskaWhen I reminisce about my…
The unforgettable Szechenyi public baths in Budapest The spa culture — going to a hot spring to relax — has been in place in Budapest for millennia. The word spa is often said to derive from the Latin words “Sanitas Per Aquam” which means healing through water. Located on the Danube, at the start of…
Photo courtesy of DPP If you’ve been reading this blog, you probably know that we’re covering UnTours regions on a monthly basis. And, as today is the 1st of May, we’re starting a new region: Eastern Europe, which, for the purposes of this month’s blog, is comprised of Prague and Budapest. And, if you’ve been…
The Douglas Dynasty (l to r., Carey Breon, Francy Douglas-Breon, Fran & Doug Douglas In place of our normal Untourist of the week profile, I’d like to introduce you to the heart and soul of the Swiss Untour program. Francy Douglas (2nd from left, above) has worked here at UnTours for 20 years. She is…
The UnTours Foundation invests in microlending in the Global South, where not all microlending is created equal. Many projects supported by microlending help individuals along the unsustainable and destructive path of Western development assisting in the purchase of dangerous pesticides, GMO seeds, cars, and the like. Instead, we look for projects that offer the Global…