This week, Hal headed back to Springfield High School, where he taught American Studies in the 1Elizabethkillough0’s while working on his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He was one of 19 this year inducted into the school’s Achievers Hall of Fame. We were told that Hal could have up to 15 words describing his…
As we move from May’s focus on Prague and Budapest into June’s insights on Austria, I want to introduce you to the dynamic duo delivering these delicious UnTours – meet Cathrin Baumbach and Sue Baker! If you know either of these brilliant women, you know that they know their stuff when it comes to anything…
We’re just about to the end of May, our month for featuring content on the UnTours of Central Europe. As you may know from our featured UnTourists , many people choose a trio of cities — Prague, Budapest and Vienna — as a way to explore this region. In June, we will be featuring Austria…
Last week, I shared some of our clients’ feedback with you, in regards to their top restaurant recommendations in Budapest. Since I’ve gotten some good feedback on those suggestions, I’d like to share with you some of the restaurant recommendations we’ve received from 2011’s Prague UnTourists. Bon appétit! Or, as they say in Prague, “dobrou…
Here are Larry and Mary Ellen Goldfarb at the Lennon (John) Wall in Prague. Instead of asking Larry and Mary Ellen our standard questions, we just chatted with them. The result is a laundry list of the things they really loved about their trip last year to Budapest and Prague: We loved the locations we…
Kent Davidson is a member of the Media Borough Council, the government body that passed the resolution in 2006 making Media, PA, the First Fair Trade Town in the US. Citizens of Media, including our own beloved Hal, have traveled to international Fair Trade events and cooperatives in the past, but Kent’s recent travels mark…
After every UnTour, we ask our clients which aspects of their trip they would want to share with anyone thinking of traveling to that particular location. As finding a good place to eat is one of the toughest things to do when you’re in a foreign country, I’d like to share with you some of…
Right now. through June 1, one of the biggest celebration in the world, the Prague Beer Festival, is taking place. In an enormous tent, the size of a soccer field, seating 10,000, people from all over the world are celebrating the glorious history of this fabled fermented beverage, It’s probably a bit too late to…
Photo credit: zolakoma While Budapest proper offers a veritable bevy of things to do, see and eat, sometimes you just want to see what else is out there – not because you’ve seen all the city has to offer, but just because you don’t want to travel halfway around the world and feel like you…
Pat and Roger apologise that the pictures don’t really show them (that’s Pat on the right and Roger on the left.) They say that when they travel, they’re so interested in what they are seeing, they rarely take pictures of one another. Also, Roger says, that as an architect, he takes way too many pictures…