Memories of the 11th trip with European Focus Private Tours

Art sure has seen much of Europe with guide James Derheim of European Focus. Since 2006, Art and his late wife, Carol, enjoyed adventures in Germany, Italy, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal and Croatia. In the fall of 2017 European Focus welcomed Art’s girlfriend Cindy for his 10th trip, this time in central and northern Italy. […]

Brisson / Rosen Tour in Germany, Austria and Italy

Cindy and Del and Mike come back for their second tour with European Focus. This time they are joined by Mike’s wife, Teresa. We start with a pre-tour few days in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany and Innsbruck, Austria before the main tour starts with stops in Venice, Reggio Emilia, Bologna, Parma, San Gimignano, Orvieto […]

Casement Tour in England and Scotland

Art and Cindy will be coming over to tour small towns in Yorkshire where Art has ancestry. Plus some areas in Scotland that Cindy wants to show to Art. This will be the second tour for this couple but it will be Art’s 11th trip since he first started traveling with European Focus in 2006 […]

Olson/Lorenz Tour in England

It has long been a dream of Cheryl to explore hamlets in England. I will be helping her and her husband John bring those dreams to life with a trip which will include Yorkshire, parts of Wales and Sussex and more.

NBC Nightly News Story about European Focus Private Tours

NBC News sent a crew from the United States and from London to cover 36 hours of our visits to Heidelberg and Essweiler, Germany this June 23 and 24. It was a thrill to have the team from NBC capture the excitement and wonder of this long-awaited 50th anniversary trip for Dominick and Lorraine Petrulli […]

Exploring Ireland

Most people take at least one vacation per year, sometimes more than one. Not hard working Bernie Friese from Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany. He waited 34 years to visit Ireland, land of his forefathers. His last real vacation was in 1986 to the Pacific Northwest and Utah. In between, he raised a family, ran […]

Jewish Genealogy Trip Success Story in Niedernberg, Bavaria

Caroline Gries from Denver, Colorado has long wanted to visit her ancestral villages in Germany, where her Jewish forefathers lived before emigrating to the United States in the 1840s. That trip was made possible in April, 2017 by European Focus. Caroline visited more than a dozen villages connected with her extensive family tree. The first […]