Joann & Gordon Pitz, our UnTourists of the Week, have written wonderful travelogs of their Spanish UnTours. Here’s just a short excerpt of their observations and experiences in our “honey of a town” Priego de Cordoba. Many Spanish UnTourists find a week here, and a week in Barcelona to be the perfect city-country pairing. We…
Joann and Gordon Pitz, in front of the National Museum of Art in Barcelona How is taking an UnTour different from other ways of traveling? For many years we traveled independently of any tour group. This gave us maximum freedom, and enabled us to develop a sense of how people in other countries live. But…
Dal LaMagna, CEO of our loan recipient, IceStone, traveled to Iraq and Jordan in 2006 to try to negotiate a cease-fire between Iraqi insurgents and the Coalition Forces – alone! I wrote about IceStone in the last UnTours Eurozine, and my colleague, Ellen Peters, spotted Dal’s name and told me she heard his amazing diplomacy…
Anyone who chooses the Spanish UnTour, inevitably wants to see La Alhambra in Granada. We recommend that you purchase your tickets here ahead of time. Then you can collect the tickets by printing your tickets at the collection terminals at the entrance of La Alhambra. (You’ll need the credit card with which you purchased them.)…
A diagram of a hyperboloidal vault, Gaudi’s genius, La Sagrada Familia and other things in Barcelona way over our heads Barcelona is a city unique in all the world for many reasons, but it owes its celebrated singularity more to one man than any other single factor: Antoni Gaudi. While originally classed as a Modernist, …
Our interest in sustainable energy led us in 2005 to ground-breaking work taking place on various Indian Reservations in South Dakota. Hal, foundation board member Mary LeFever, and UnTourists/foundation donors Rod and Shirley DePue visited some of this work in 2006. Their hosts included Patrick Spears, a leader in various capacities including former tribal chairman….
Monica and Bob….and the endless olive trees of Andalusia in the background. 1.Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our two weeks in Andalusia last September may have been our most unique UnTours trip so far. (This was our fourth UnTours experience;…
We hope you had a happy 4th of July. The UnTours Bloggers took the day off too! So you get our usual Wednesday Culture Clue on a Thursday this week! When you’re an UnTourist in Barcelona you automatically receive an Articket, one of the best deals in Europe. It gets you into 7 major museums…
About the picture, Pam says: ” The picture is taken on The Sacred Way in Athens. I was pretty thrilled to be on the Sacred Way having read about Greece for years, so I was doing a little “Sacred Way” dance and my husband got hold of the camera…” 1. Tell us a little bit…
At my house, we park our shoes at the door to reduce our carbon footprints since we don’t have to vacuum as much. Not! It is true that the house stays cleaner and we don’t have to vacuum as often with the shoes-at-door-practice, but the truth is we just don’t like to clean and therefore…