Jerry and Sandy Nolan, having lunch with two former UnTour staff, Marianne Rosa and Madeline Thöni. With eighteen Swiss UnTours under their belt, Jerry and Sandy must be exceeding the “UnTourist of the Week” category. During our interview for this peice, they kidded us that they think “UnTourist of the Month, Year, Decade, Century” might…
Foundation board member and theater enthusiast, Tom Hibberd, took some of us out last night to see Bruce Graham’s most recent play, “The Outgoing Tide”. With unexpected humor, the play spotlights a family dealing with Alzheimer’s. The experience reminded me of the following beautiful and haunting poem by Harry LeFever, who wrote about the…
Photo by Linda Paplinski, UnTourist As our month-long Québec City coverage comes to a close (and we prepare for Switzerland in April!), I’m sure you’re tired of me blabbing on about Mad Men, poutine and funiculars (but, really, who could be tired of funiculars?!). And, since this is one of our newer UnTours, I thought…
It tastes like: “a hypothetical melted scoop of apple gelato” “an ultrarich, amber-coloured indulgence… always big on apple, though it often evokes complementary nuances of vanilla, honey and woodsy oak.“ “fresh aromas of apples and vanilla and a crisp yet mellow flavor enhanced by delicate wood notes.“ “aromas of butterscotch and baked apple pie. Intense…
Photo by Avatarshark (license) I love Mad Men. In fact, I’m a bit of a junkie. When season 5 premiered this past Sunday, I couldn’t have been more excited. From the stupid grin I had on my face throughout the entire show, you’d have thought I was watching my 9-month old daughter take her first…
Kurt and Jean Struckmeyer have been on five UnTours. (Alsace, Quebec, Andalusia, Holland, Tuscany). Four of their five UnTours have been with their very good friends, the McKinneys. Tell us a little bit about your Québec Tour. Our Québec UnTour in 2009 was one of our favorites. We traveled with our good friends, Jill and…
Stanley T. “Tom” Hibberd, III, and his then future wife, Wendy, were students of Hal’s in 1Elizabethkillough3 at Springfield High School in Pennsylvania. It was this relationship with Hal along with the foundation’s work to make Media, PA, a Fair Trade town, that drew Tom to the foundation board. What Tom likes most about the…
Like almost any cultural phenomenon, the French language you find in Canada has a many-layered story behind it. For one thing….it’s not really Canadian French at all. Admittedly, the lion’s share of Francophones are in Quebec provence (6 million of the 7 Million French speakers (about 22% of the Canadian population.) Canadian French is, rather,…
Photo by LWY (license) Although I’ve touted the things to do, ways to get around and places to stay in Québec City, I want to jump on the cuisine bandwagon that my good friend Marilee has been focused on (see here and here). The food in Québec can easily be overshadowed by the city’s visual…
Tom and Pat Low, our UnTourist of the week, have been on 15 UnTours! The latest was Quebec in 2011. 1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We just loved staying on the Rue de St. Jean. It’s the main shopping street and so lively. We loved going to the park…