When planning today’s blog post about getting around Paris by bus, Dodge Amaral (our resident Paris Expert) shared this piece he received a few years ago from longtime UnTourist Judith Wagner. She writes of a trip to Paris with her mother and how taking the buses gave her a much more Parisian experience. Enjoy! Riding…
1.”Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour.” Our most recent UnTours trip was two weeks in Alsace last May/June. It was our fourth UnTours, the others being Provence, Andalusia, and Umbria, in that order over the past few years. Each trip was two weeks. They were all marvelous. We selected Alsace with…
When I joined Hal at the UnTours Foundation a number of years ago, I read my way through the filing cabinets as part of my personal orientation program. One of the surprises was the following letter from a friend and fan of Hal’s. “Dear Hal, I am writing to let you know that you now…
It may be true what they say: “In Europe, one speaks with one’s hands and feet!” and it is certainly true in the gestures that accompany the beautiful French language. Of all the gestures, one has its own name: the Gallic shrug. It gets our vote for one of the most versatile and subtle ways…
Paris just feels right, doesn’t it? I was there this past fall for work and just fell in love with La Ville-Lumière all over again. In fact, in this month’s UnTours Eurozine, I wrote about how Paris makes me feel. Here’s an excerpt: “The first time I went to Paris, I was barely out of…
1 and 2. We asked Bill two questions:”Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour.” and “What is your favorite UnTours memory?” and here’s his answer: Late in October 2009, we took an Air France flight out of Dulles to Paris. My wife needs assistance in walking, so we were placed on the…
The feisty and loving personality of our guest blogger, Brenda Davis, is evident in this 2006 PBS television piece for “Boomers! Redefining Life After 50”. When Hal and I need a pick-me-up, we check in with Brenda! And now we have Snow, who’s as much a clone of Brenda’s as she is a granddaughter. The…
From the Alsace region of France, a Tarte Flambée (or Flammeküeche in the Alsatian language, a dialect of German) is unique to this region. That being said, given it’s reliance on heavy cream, bacon and onions, one can discern it’s very French and German roots, like nearly everything else in Alsace! One legend is that…
Editor’s Note: This post was written by guest blogger, Samantha DuBois. She is the author of the blog TravelGirlSeesWorld.com and has recently returned from a semester abroad in Padova (Padua), Italy, where she lived with a host family and took all of her classes in Italian. We hope you enjoy her writing as much as…
As we begin to close out January and, subsequently, our daily features on Italy (France is coming in February!), I wanted to take a moment to recognize our Italian dynamic duo, Andi Cancelliere and Andrea Szyper, for all they do to make UnTours such a great place and this blog chock full of delectable Italian…