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…
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…
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…
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…
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! Photo by Luis Eduardo P…
Joann & Gordon Pitz, our UnTourists of the Week, have written wonderful travelogs of their Spanish UnTours. Here’s just a short excerpt of their observations and experiences in our “honey of a town” Priego de Cordoba. Many Spanish UnTourists find a week here, and a week in Barcelona to be the perfect city-country pairing. We…
Joann and Gordon Pitz, in front of the National Museum of Art in Barcelona How is taking an UnTour different from other ways of traveling? For many years we traveled independently of any tour group. This gave us maximum freedom, and enabled us to develop a sense of how people in other countries live. But…
Dal LaMagna, CEO of our loan recipient, IceStone, traveled to Iraq and Jordan in 2006 to try to negotiate a cease-fire between Iraqi insurgents and the Coalition Forces – alone! I wrote about IceStone in the last UnTours Eurozine, and my colleague, Ellen Peters, spotted Dal’s name and told me she heard his amazing diplomacy…
Anyone who chooses the Spanish UnTour, inevitably wants to see La Alhambra in Granada. We recommend that you purchase your tickets here ahead of time. Then you can collect the tickets by printing your tickets at the collection terminals at the entrance of La Alhambra. (You’ll need the credit card with which you purchased them.)…
A diagram of a hyperboloidal vault, Gaudi’s genius, La Sagrada Familia and other things in Barcelona way over our heads Barcelona is a city unique in all the world for many reasons, but it owes its celebrated singularity more to one man than any other single factor: Antoni Gaudi. While originally classed as a Modernist, …