It’s the UnTours Foundation’s 20th anniversary on April 22nd. Yeah!! You didn’t hear about our 1st or 10th anniversaries not because we didn’t have a Blog then, but because Hal kept the foundation a secret. Well, sort of. He just didn’t think you’d necessarily be interested. Hal was busy at that time putting his salary…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our lastest UnTour was to Paris last spring. We stayed in the Daguerre (sp) apt for two weeks and loved it! The street market around the corner was wonderful and we enjoyed shopping for great things to eat each day. The metro stop was…
When foundation board member Bill Wiedmann isn’t working on our behalf or eating tons of veggies from his garden with his family, (his lovely wife, Claire, took this photo), he’s co-directing his Fair Trade company, Singing Dog Vanilla. If you thought vanilla was an insignificant teaspoon in a recipe, you haven’t had really great vanilla….
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Last September we made a return visit to Paris. We stayed far away from the tourist areas and enjoyed a real Parisian neighborhood. Instead of vendors hawking trinkets we shopped in neighborhood stores and watched children playing and people going about their daily tasks….
Our guest Blogger this week is Suzanne Cotter, who’s promoting the Fair Trade Federation‘s May conference in Raleigh. We are great fans of the Fair Trade Federation and the integrity it brings to the Fair Trade movement. Here’s Suzanne………. Interested in Dedicated Fair Trade Businesses? Across the US and Canada, lots of dedicated, holistic fair…
Ray leaving old Chapel with 15th century fresco on Wanda’s farm in Umbria. (inset is their photo of the fresco inside) 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. It was a dream vacation: 8 days on the Variety Voyager, the sleek 73-passenger yacht that put us ashore at the fabled ports…
Photo by Nicola cc I came across TravelNerd last week by way of my favorite travel tech website, Tnooz. As Tnooz stated, “TravelNerd is a much needed application for travelers.” And, unlike my last post, you don’t need a smartphone to use it (although you could download the iPhone app). So, how does TravelNerd make…
Mariana Lamaison Sears, our guest Blogger this week, attends our weekly Fair Trade Committee meetings along with her adorable daughter, Mora, pictured here. In addition to believing in trading fairly, Mariana, originally from Argentina, loves the outdoors, practicing yoga, writing, and staying home with her kids! Mariana just wrote a Blog on Fair Trade clothing…
UnTours’ TAKE: Before Sunrise (1995), directed by Richard Linklater, and starring a very young Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy, is the first in a series of three films, all very well reviewed. Central to each movie is the romance between Hawke and Delphy’s characters. This, the first of these movies, is set in Vienna. Essentially,…
Ellie & John have been on more than 16 UnTours and, most recently, have stayed at our Vaclav apartment in Prague, Wess apartment in Budapest, and Vermeer apartment in Leiden. 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Prague and Budapest May 2012…the thing that stands out still is the history that…