Along with this “Un-map”* of the cultural delights of Nafplio, here are excerpts from one of our more delighted Greek UnTourists on the joys of eating in Nafplio, Kaye Norman. To read more of her Nafplio adventures, click here. from Kay Norman’s UnTours Cafe Blog: Nafplio Greece, October 2010 “The town of Nafplio –…
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Untourists of the Week: Marcia and Oded Borowski
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Marcia and Oded on their three week adventure in their favorite place: Greece 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We spent a little over 3 weeks in Greece – – in THE PERFECT LITTLE TOWN of Nafplion. We had both been to Greece before several times, mostly separately and…
Istanbul was Constantinople was Byzantium
This is post number 2 of 6 in a series covering my 5 weeks in Greece, Istanbul and Italy. The other posts are linked at the bottom of this post. I had no idea what to expect of the city that spans two continents, neither as I was planning nor as we made our bumpy…
Memories of an Untourist Artist in Greece: Ann Cockerill
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Ann Cockerill’s little boat that “begged to have it’s portrait painted.’ From an answer Ann gave to a question someone on the UnTours Cafe asked here about the lovely paintings she makes while on UnTours, and in this case, about this boat, that she found while on a Greek UnTour. We think it speaks very…
Foundation Fridays: Down But Not Out
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IceStone is still recovering from hosting five feet of Hurricane Sandy’s salty water in its factory. Here’s a short video on escorting the last bit of this unwanted guest off the premises. IceStone still has no electricity. However, between the natural lighting of its green factory and the delivery of electricity via a very long…
Mediterranean Diet & Greece: Where People Forget to Die
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A recent testament to the healthy properties of the Mediterranean Diet, specifically the Greek diet, has inspired us here at UnTours. (Read the entire article in last week’s NY TImes magazine here: The Island Where People Forget to Die) This article profiles a Greek WWII veteran, Stamatis Moraitis, who came to the US in 1943,…
An Italian in Greece (and Istanbul…and finally in Italy)
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This is post number 1 of 6 in a series covering my 5 weeks in Greece, Istanbul and Italy. The other posts are linked at the bottom of this post. What is an Italo-phile like me to do when planning a vacation outside of Italy? Go to Greece! Prior to my overseas work assignment (more…
Untourists of the Week: Enid & Bob Phreaner and their story of Christos as “Spiderman”
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Have you ever seen a face more likely to be someone you could make friends with? This is Christos, and Enid and Bob happily got the chance to see just how handy a friend can be. 1. Our most recent UnTour was two weeks of hiking, sightseeing and immersing ourselves in the beauty of…
Everything I Need to Know About Travel I Learned From My Toddler
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A good bag, water bottle, wipes and snacks are essentials for travel. OK, so he is a big boy preschooler now. But my son was a toddler when I took him and his daddy to Italy with me for a work trip. And in getting ready for the journey, I felt my travel systems were…
Foundation Fridays: Hurricane Sandy meets some of our loan recipients
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Photo by Maryland GovPics Brooklyn-based IceStone, the producers of countertops and flooring made out of recycled glass, was under 5 feet of water from Sandy. Here is a news story about that. They are still without most of their power. Several other foundation loan recipients, like Cheryl Stevens, who normally work 16-hour days, lost business…