This post comes to us from Swiss UnoTur alumnus Jerry Nolan. Because my wife Sandy and I went to Switzerland summer after summer for many years before age and circumstance grounded us, I often find myself pining over memories of Swiss food. We always traveled with UnTours, that estimable travel company founded on the idea…
Jonathan Coleman is the Co-CEO of the UnTours Foundation. He just returned from his first trip to Switzerland, on a Swiss UnTour. Here are his impressions. When traveling, one meets interesting people. It’s an inevitable truth and an undeniable draw for those of us who feel the need to travel deep within our souls. When…
Our Castle UnTour in Bavaria is a unique program, where guests stay in comfortably furnished apartments in a medieval castle. They are hosted by the baron and his wife, and generally treated regally. Manfred and Lilo reported missing their guests when travel was shut down. (They are photographed below.) So they were delighted to host…
Recently our colleague Joao, from Sintra, Portugal, was cleaning out some old paperwork and stumbled upon a thank you note from UnTourists whom he had hosted during the tragic events of 9/11, back in 2001. Joao hosted the first iteration of our Sintra UnTour back then (which was simply the Portugal UnTour, as we had…
…And we’re back! Italy was the first country in Europe to shut down, so it felt particularly satisfying and a little poetic that it was one of our first countries to welcome UnTourists this summer. The Lorenzis and the Moormans were our first guests in Italy, the first UnTourists to return to Italy since 2019….
The Gordons and Boicourts recently joined us in Meiringen, Switzerland, on our Swiss Heartland UnTour. Three generations of their family stayed in one of our favorite towns in central Switzerland and made amazing memories together against the timeless backdrop of Alpine peaks, lush valleys, and clean blue lakes. It was a trip that will no…
UnTourist Emeritus and regular blog contributor Jackie Johnson recently returned from another UnTour to Ireland. Here’s her report in photos, including an emergency trip to the hospital. Read all about it. This was my third trip to Ireland; the last two trips were with UnTours. UnTours is the only way to travel to Europe in…
Central Scotland is a favorite summer destination. Here is the review of a recent guest of ours, who joined friends on our Central Scotland UnTour; he lays out some of the places they were able to visit on their stay. All arrangements made beforehand were exactly as described and connections were on time. Val and…
Provence is a special place, and the Provence UnTour has remained one of our most popular UnTours since its inception in the early 1990s. If you love good food and wine, warm people, natural beauty, small town charms, and deep history, it is easy to understand the appeal. Our local host, Anne, takes an active interest…
Our Tuscany UnTour is a perennial favorite, and ranks among our most popular UnTour destinations. It is hard to beat the views here in the Orcia Valley, south of Siena. With its stark rolling green hills, cypress trees, and vineyards, its landscape is so distinctive that the area was named a UNESCO World Heritage site…