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…
From its beginnings as the capital of New France (back in the early 1600s), to its current day sobriquet of the National Capital (to the Québecois), Quebec City is a wonder to behold and a dream to vacation in. Its remarkable history has made Vieux-Québec (Old Québec) a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985. There…
Don and Deby Elliott took their very first UnTour, to Quebec, in 2011. How did it go? We think Don’s quote, when he sent us the pictures from his Iphone, says it best: “It’s tough looking at the pictures and not being there. That’s when you know you had a good vacation!’ 1.”Tell us a…
All of our foundation board members are amazing, of course, and that includes Mary LeFever, who first met Hal and Norma when her husband, Harry, taught with Hal at Springfield High School in southeastern Pennsylvania. When Hal and Norma formed the UnTours Foundation in 1993, they asked Mary to be a founding board member. Mary…
As we March ahead with 2012, I feel it is important to introduce you to the terrific two that make UnTours France and UnTours Quebec City so incroyable and filled with that, how do you say?, je ne sais quoi. Meet Dodge Amaral and Mia Lehmann! If you’re even entertaining the thought of going to…