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…
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Adam Gopnik, and other love-hate phenomena related to France.
There are two kinds of travellers: some take trips, while others are really “tryin on a new life” on each journey This second kind of traveler dreams of moving abroad, dropping everything, and truly inhabiting a locale they’ve fallen in love with on a trip. One might compare this to daydreaming,while you’re on a…
A Unique Paris Hotel: Hotel de la Bretonnerie
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Photo courtesy of wackybadger (license) There is no end to the splendor of Paris. The Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur, the Louvre…the list goes on and on. One place that we love to visit, and that may not get as much press as those other sites, is the Place des Vosges….
Untourist of the Week: Barbara Cheesman aka Francophile & Co.
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1.”Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour.” It was back to Provence yet another time! Having explored much of France over the years, my husband Jerry and I,or my two Francophile friends, Lorraine, Marcia, and I, have returned to Provence to the same apartment (Gamet 2) in St. Didier annually since 2005…
Foundation Fridays: Hal and a young boy’s terror………….
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Here’s Hal with his younger brother, Warren, father of UnTours’ General Manager Brian Taussig-Lux. Hal grew up in an evangelical Christian family that believed in “the Rapture.” He tried hard to share his family’s beliefs, but couldn’t. When he was about 13 years old and found himself alone milking the cows, he thought the Rapture…
A Fabulous Escape by Larry Kueneman, Untourist
Today’s post was written by Larry Kueneman, an UnTourist who spent 2 weeks in Alsace and 2 weeks at a Bavarian castle in Germany with UnTours. The following is his account of his trip. A Fabulous Escape Most of us have heard people complain after spending tons on a port-to-port cruise ship where things went…
A Year in the Merde…and other books to help you figure out the French
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Anyone who’s been to France knows fairly quickly…they are definitely not in Kansas anymore. There’s a pretty hefty bibliography of books that can help you bridge this culture gap you’re bound to hit when you visit France. We’d like to help you get from “what the heck?!” to “vive la difference!” in as short a…
Eating Out in Provence: Our Favorite Restaurant in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
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When you head out on your next (or first, which, in that case, will definitely not be your last) vacation in Provence, after you make sure your bags are packed, your plane is on time, and all your cares in the world are placed neatly in the corner of your closet, remember to make reservations…
Untourist of the week: Steve Savel
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Our UnTourist of the Week is Steve Savel, who with his wife Karen have gone on 20 different UnTours. We feature Steve during our France month, because they’ve gone to Alsace twice, but they really are the definitive Renaissance UnTourists…they do it all! 1. “Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour.” My…
Foundation Fridays: Let the River Run……….
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……….Clean. Lots of our work at the UnTours Foundation is about clean water. And what about those of us in the Global North, who have plenty of water? (I do realize that more and more of us in the North don’t in fact have enough!) What can we do to help the problem in addition…