Kurt and Jean Struckmeyer have been on five UnTours. (Alsace, Quebec, Andalusia, Holland, Tuscany). Four of their five UnTours have been with their very good friends, the McKinneys. Tell us a little bit about your Québec Tour. Our Québec UnTour in 2009 was one of our favorites. We traveled with our good friends, Jill and…
Stanley T. “Tom” Hibberd, III, and his then future wife, Wendy, were students of Hal’s in 1Elizabethkillough3 at Springfield High School in Pennsylvania. It was this relationship with Hal along with the foundation’s work to make Media, PA, a Fair Trade town, that drew Tom to the foundation board. What Tom likes most about the…
Like almost any cultural phenomenon, the French language you find in Canada has a many-layered story behind it. For one thing….it’s not really Canadian French at all. Admittedly, the lion’s share of Francophones are in Quebec provence (6 million of the 7 Million French speakers (about 22% of the Canadian population.) Canadian French is, rather,…
Photo by LWY (license) Although I’ve touted the things to do, ways to get around and places to stay in Québec City, I want to jump on the cuisine bandwagon that my good friend Marilee has been focused on (see here and here). The food in Québec can easily be overshadowed by the city’s visual…
Tom and Pat Low, our UnTourist of the week, have been on 15 UnTours! The latest was Quebec in 2011. 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We just loved staying on the Rue de St. Jean. It’s the main shopping street and so lively. We loved going to the park…
Andy Paminger got to know Hal and Norma Taussig in 2010 when he began working as the Marketing Director at UnTours. Personal circumstances pulled him back to Boston in 2011, but when asked to join the UnTours Foundation board – and take on a long board meeting commute! – he graciously said Yes! It was…
Photo by Friejose (license) By now, you’ve hopefully realized that there is more to Québec City than meets the eye. Posts like Marilee’s wonderful tips on Québec cuisine and the Québec adventures of UnTourists Don & Deby Elliott have already shed light on things to do and foods to eat in the Old Capital. Today,…
Don and Deby Elliott were our UnTourists of the week last Monday. When we saw all the amazing photos that they’d sent (unsolicited, from their Iphone, back las summer during their trip) we decided we’d just have to do two postings on the Elliotts. So the last week’s was a general overview of their trip,…
Here’s Hal in 2010 with Bart Houlahan and Jay Gilbert of B Lab, which certifies B Corporations. This photo captures Hal just after winning the first annual B Lab “Hal Taussig Award”. One of our aims at the UnTours Foundation is to invest in businesses with great values, that give back, and that don’t “take”…
Of all the provinces in Canada, Quebec has the deepest love affair going with food. Thanks, no doubt, to their French cultural heritage, the Quebecois are intensely interested in the art of eating well. How does this manifest itself? Small, elegant cafes and bistros all over the city, and sumptous country inns in the rural…