Our retail store “European Focus Village” on Main Street in Sarasota, FL draws hundreds of shoppers looking for a unique gift or home decorating item. Those items, ranging from French tablecloths to German “Smokers” to ceramics from Portugal, Poland and Deruta are all hand selected by us while we travel around Europe with our private […]
Category Archives: Europe Tours
Off Season Tours Now Available
For the first time, we are offering tours in Europe in the so-called “off season,” which for us, are the months of November through March. To find out more, contact us today. (And dress warmly!)
Oktoberfest in Munich
The biggest beer festival in the world is just about to wrap up in Munich, Germany. We were there today, enjoying liters of Augustiner beer (a brewery pumping out great beer since 1378) and half chickens in a festival tent jammed with partiers dressed in lederhosen and dirndls. In fact, we felt a little out […]
Colmar, France please stop the noise
J’apprécie votre centre-ville. Que je n’apprécie pas suis le bruit. La circulation, le son des radios bruyantes, et les cloches dérangent ce que serait autrement un soir paisible. Vous ne pouvez pas faire quelque chose de ceci ? Surtout dans les heures d’huit dans le soir à six dans la matinée. Merci. Dear Mayor, I […]
Postcard from Alsace, France
Dambach la Ville on a brilliant September morning.
Experience Europe for 2012
We’re offering an itinerary full of our most favorite places on the European continent. This tour can be booked “as is” or it can be used as the nucleus for your own suggestions and ideas, which we will then incorporate into the perfect trip for you and your party. Remember, we never mix and match […]
Mad King Ludwig’s Gigantic Cash Cow Neuschwanstein Castle Germany
When the Bavarian ministers decided to drag crazy King Ludwig II out of his still unfinished fantasy castle in 1886 and throw away the key (he was found dead a short time later, “mysteriously drowned” in about three feet of water. Note that the Krazy King was more than six feet tall) they should have […]
Regensburg Cathedral and the Judensau
Some who visit Germany for the first time assume that the persecution of the Jews in Europe began with Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Not so. The Jews have been chased out of Europe, murdered and punished with huge taxation rates for more than 1,000 years in Europe. In Regensburg there is a visible […]