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…
Here’s former foundation intern extraordinaire, Ashley Fessler, in Honduras. Today, we have our first guest blogger: Ashley Fessler, a dynamite young woman, who worked with us at the foundation in 2010. Ashley spent the year with us leading much of our local work surrounding America’s First Fair Trade Town, Media, PA. We shared the ups…
Photo: “Piazza Santa Croce” © 2008 John Spooner, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Domenico The next time you vacation in Florence, make sure you stay in the Santa Croce section of the city. Here, you’ll not only find our lovely Domenico apartment, you’ll also find some relaxation – if you want to…
Here are the most common coffees you’ll find in an Italian bar; most of these should be available in the ubiquitous “bar” no matter where you are in Italy: Caffè In Italy the word “caffè’” naturally implies an espresso. There is no need to specify “espresso” when ordering. Served in a demitasse cup. Caffè macchiato:-…
It’s no accident that there are few if any Starbucks in Italy. Arguably, Italy (in our humble opinion) invented the concept that Starbucks shoots for. In Italy there often are two or three bars per city block, staffed by a skilled “barista” who knows their customer personally and serves even the quickest, cheapest coffee with…
Whether it’s the gripping history of the Medici family, the inescapable allure of the Duomo or the seemingly endless string of artistic masters that lived and worked there (Dante, da Vinci, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo…and on and on and on), Florence presents you with innumberable excuses to stay “just one more night.” In fact, when I first…