[Idyllchat] An invitation to the Untours Cafe, and vice-versa

[Marilee Taussig]

HI, Idyllchatters,

As many of you know, we have added a "multimedia" version of Idyllchat over
at www.untourscafe.com.

We invited everybody on Idyllchat to joing the Cafe about a month ago.  Many
Idyllchatters are now also Untours Cafe members.


   - Vance Roy's Matterhorn
Memories<http://www.untourscafe.com/profiles/blog/show?id=676822%253ABlogPost%253A11601>is
a lesson in just how good an "amateur video" can be
   - Bill Kover's "In My Grandfather's
Footsteps"<http://www.untourscafe.com/profiles/blog/show?id=676822%253ABlogPost%253A5740>
   is a beautifully written, heart-felt narration of the exploration of a
   long-held family story
   - Marlene Hench's "Ana Ginotti and the Prayer
Card"<http://www.untourscafe.com/profiles/blog/show?id=676822%253ABlogPost%253A9806>is
a great example of just how nice our hosts (in Tuscany South)  in
Untours
   can be.(also her Ocktoberfest blog post and Digital Photography as a trip
   journal)
   - Doris M's" Alsace for Swiss
Lovers"<http://www.untourscafe.com/profiles/blog/show?id=676822%253ABlogPost%253A7819>is
a triplog with pictures that gives everyone who loves Switzerland a
good
   look at nearby Alsace.
   - Pete Haggart<http://www.untourscafe.com/profiles/blog/show?id=676822%253ABlogPost%253A3626>has
been making great triplogs for a long time; his one on Vienna, with
   pictures aplenty is perhaps my favorite...but he has a bunch and they all
   include his great pictures.....
   - Everybody's best friend when the computer or website is acting up,
   our own Julie
Siebel<http://www.untourscafe.com/profiles/blog/show?id=676822:BlogPost:5987#comment-676822:Comment:6009>(Untours'
computer genius) has written all kinds of cool things, like how to
   find your Untours hometown on Google Earth,
   - Mary Lou Grier <http://www.untourscafe.com/profile/mistylou> is a
   wonderful advocate for all kinds of things, from student exchanges to the
   Wines of Montalcino  ---talk about the Renaissance woman!


Un BELIEVABLE photographers:


   - Kemp whose
pictures<http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A8304>have
me convinced that he may have done a deal with the devil to get the
   kind of color he does...here is the castle at Spiez  -- a heartstopper!
   - Marlene does it all (writing, helping others, taking pictures) , but
   I think I like her pictures of people best...here she
is<http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A2480>with
Frank, and two of my favorite Untours staffers: Johanna (in Paris) and
   Lotta (on the France team here in Media)
   - Bill Kover<http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A1226>(this
guy can take pictures of food like nobody I have seen....)
   - Vance<http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A9402>
   - Vicki K
   <http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A7533>
   - Doris M. when she isn't writing beautful
tripblogs<http://www.untourscafe.com/profiles/blog/show?id=676822%253ABlogPost%253A11854>of
her travels with pictures...she is posting other great
   pictures.<http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A12033>
   ..
   - Jean Agneta
   <http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A997>-
   you haven't lived till you she her shot of her and Fred on a motorcycle at
   the Luzern transportation museum
   - Shirley Thornton<http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=shir2travel>pictures
of old friend's in Switzerland
   - Bob Young's<http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A4931>watercolors
of Poppies
   - Lee Forstie<http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A2113>photos
of wildlfowers
   - Both the Schaffner's (Amy
   <http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A5410>and
   Vann<http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A5189>)
   who travel and take pictures of their kids
   - Ann Peterson<http://www.untourscafe.com/photo/photo/show?id=676822%253APhoto%253A955>in
Ticino

Also, we have extremely talented video makers:

   - Vance (again!) on the Grandfather's Walk in
Switzerland<http://www.untourscafe.com/video/video/show?id=676822:Video:10000>
   - Sallyimp on
Leiden<http://www.untourscafe.com/video/video/show?id=676822:Video:4687>
   - Bill and Eleanor Kover (again!) filming Hal on the Today
Show<http://www.untourscafe.com/video/video/show?id=676822%253AVideo%253A3524>


I am still missing a bunch of people.....but I just wanted everyone in
Idyllchat to know about this great stuff.  I hope to periodically post
something like this....just the tip of the iceberg of wonderful stuff people
are putting up.

After this week, we are going to begin to invite NEW folks on....and I just
wanted to invite all our old friends one more time.  If you don't want to
officially join the Cafe, you can still go look at all your Idyllchat
friends in their various endeavors.

Like Idyllchat, we have broadened the conversation on Untours Cafe to be
about Untours PLUS all our other travels...so you not only get Switzerland,
you get college tours, apple-picking etc. etc.

Thanks Idyllchat...hopefully both Idyllchat and the Untours Cafe will be
helping Untourists plan great travel for years to come.
-- 
Marilee Taussig
Program Director
Untours

"Those who say it can't be done should not interrupt those who are doing
it." Friend of Jim Hightower's
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