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Untourists of the Week: Elsa and Raymond Heald

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March 21, 2013 by Mtaussig

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…  

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Bruce and Marlene Bauman, Untourists of the Week

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February 19, 2013 by Mtaussig

Bruce and Marlene have been travelling with us since 19Elizabethkillough: Swiss Heartland six times, Swiss Oberland four times, Tuscany, the Rhine and Provence last year. They are booked to go back to Swiss Heartland and Oberland this year! Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. We took a Viking ship down the…  

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Dawna Warren and Jim Moore, Untourists of the Week

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January 29, 2013 by Mtaussig

Dawna and Jim have taken UnTours to Tuscany (1999), Swiss Heartland (2000), Umbria (2002), Greece (2005), Tuscany (2008), Swiss Ticino (2008), Rhine and Holland (2010), Provence (2012) and Alsace (2012). In this picture, they are walking in Greece. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our all-France visit. Two weeks in St….  

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Untourists of the Week: Pat and Jack Cruser

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December 12, 2012 by Mtaussig

Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour? When Marilee asked me some questions about our experiences with UnTours, the review of memories turned out to be fun for the most part, funny in some aspects, and always enlightening.  A bit of background:  we have completed 19 UnTours, with the 20th to be…  

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Mary Ann Miller: Untourist of the Week and Untour Artist extraordinaire

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France Greece Nafplio Provence Untourist of the Week

December 4, 2012 by Mtaussig

Welcome to December….Potluck month on the UnTours Blog! Instead of our normal practice of featuring one particular UnTour Destination for the month, during the last month of 2012, we’re going to skip around a bit, hoping to catch a few of the real stars of our UnTour community that may have been missed. Today, we’d…  

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Our Untourist of the Week, Doris M! (her Untours Cafe moniker)

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July 30, 2012 by Mtaussig

This week’s UnTourist of the Week, Doris Matick because of her lovely photos of Spain that you see in the slideshow below.  But when we asked her for her UnTour impressions, she went all over the map. Which is not to say, she doesn’t love Spain.  Check out her wonderful blog post on UnTours Cafe,…  

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Adam Gopnik, and other love-hate phenomena related to France.

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February 29, 2012 by Mtaussig

There are two kinds of travellers: some take trips, while others are really “tryin on a new life” on each journey   This second kind of traveler dreams of moving abroad, dropping everything, and truly inhabiting  a locale they’ve fallen in love with on a trip. One might compare this to daydreaming,while you’re on a…  

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A Fabulous Escape by Larry Kueneman, Untourist

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February 23, 2012 by Nickfortunatus

Today’s post was written by Larry Kueneman, an UnTourist who spent 2 weeks in Alsace and 2 weeks at a Bavarian castle in Germany with UnTours. The following is his account of his trip. A Fabulous Escape Most of us have heard people complain after spending tons on a port-to-port cruise ship where things went…  

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