1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. In the fall of 2012, we took a 3-week UnTour in Italy: one week at the Poggiarellino wine farm in Tuscany, one at an olive farm in Umbria, and a third in Rome, where our apartment (Zingari) was close to the Colosseum. We had…
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Paul and Michaela Gardiner, Untourists of the Week, three generations in Kandersteg
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. All our UnTours have been fabulous, but our favorite was the time we took our children, their spouses and our grandchildren to Kandersteg. 2. Why did you choose to go there? We wanted to share our favorite memories with our children. Plus, Switzerland has…
Timelapse of the week: Paris
Photo by UnTourist Thomas Buckhout You may or may not know that I am simply in love with timelapse videos of my favorite travel destinations. I actually didn’t know I was until I came across this one last year. Since then, I’ve been consuming them at an alarming rate. I thought you may be interested…
Ted and Margaret Ricks, Untourists of the Week, join up with their “Roman son”
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. My wife, Margaret, and I spent a glorious and unhurried week in Tuscany staying in an apartment on a farm with views of the rolling countryside dotted with terracotta roofed homes, olive orchards, and vineyards with carpets of wild mustard and red poppies. We…
Prague Q&A with Cathrin Baumbach
Cathrin Baumbach has worked for UnTours since 2001 and is a Jill of all trades here. She began her UnTours career on the Swiss Team and has gone on to run what we affectionately call the Boho (Bohemian) Team, covering our destinations in Austria and Germany, along with Prague and Budapest. She also runs the…
Hopper: A new tool to save you hundreds on airfare
Photo by Allen Watkin cc If I could travel more often, I would be thrilled. And, I’m pretty sure I’m not the only person who feels that way. I should just get up and go, right? Well, there’s work, of course. There’s being a husband, and trying to be a good one, at that. And,…
Foundation Fridays: Empowering women with Cora
Elizabeth and I had a wonderful visit this week from Molly Hayward, founder of Cora. Molly is a passionate young entrepreneur from the Philadelphia area who really believes in changing how capitalism works. As Elizabeth remarked to Molly, “Hal will love you!” Cora offers an empowering perspective on women’s menstrual health, both for women here…
Jean and William Tarr, Untourists of the Week, love the “small village” experience
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We arranged a visit to Bettona, Umbria, in Italy for one week and then to Vienna for the second week. We needed to make our own air arrangements but it was easy enough to do. We loved being in the hilltop village with access…
Jane and Curtiss Conrad, Untourists of the Week: Let’s Go Again
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our last UnTour was to Greece. We had a spacious apartment in a square across from the steps to Napflio’s castle. 2. Why did you choose to go there? Poppy—where they stayed We chose Greece because we loved Barcelona and Amalfi and wanted to…
This year’s Untour Giveaway winner is…
Over the past 7 months, we have received hundreds of very deserving nominations for a free UnTour in our second UnTour Giveaway. As of right now, that list of nominees is inhabited by only one person: Joanne. She is the winner of a free 2015 UnTour! Joanne was nominated by her sister (Sue), who was…