January 28, 2012 With the celebration of our 18th year as private tour guides, and the overall company’s 23rd year in business as “European Focus” we’re proud to announce that our 2012 calendar of tours is filling even faster than usual. Repeat clients, spoiled rotten by our attention and excellence, have returned again and again, […]
Fox News.com features European Focus Private Tours
January 23, 2012 Founder James Derheim was recently interviewed for an extensive piece on ancestral travel for Foxnews.com Check it out at http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/01/22/discounting-your-roots/
Just booked – Adventure in Berlin, Dresden, Prague and Vienna
Dick and Darlene will be enjoying their fourth trip with European Focus since the spring of 2009 when they first joined our expanding family of guests. This time, their April, 2012 trip will include Germany’s capital city, rebuilt and wonderful Dresden, the eternally gorgeous city of Prague plus Vienna and more. Dick and Dar took […]
Just booked – March Adventure in Germany
European Focus founder James Derheim will be flying to Frankfurt on the 7th of March to be in place for a family tour through parts of southern Germany scheduled for March 11 to 18. A family of four from Centerville, IA will be experiencing Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Schwangau, Berchtesgaden, the concentration camp at Mauthausen […]
Just booked – tour in Belgium and France
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 […]
When Ireland was south of the equator
We’ve seen many ancient sites in Ireland; monastic beehive huts from the fourth and fifth century, ruins of monasteries from the 14th and 15th centuries and the even older burial site of Newgrange, dating back to about 2,000 to 3,000 years before Christ. But the other day’s discovery on the windswept shores of Valentia Island, […]
Postcard from Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland
Sunset on Inch Strand near the town of Anascaul, Dingle Peninsula, Ireland October 13, 2011
Staying on a sheep farm in County Tipperary, Ireland
We love our visits to grand and gracious Dualla House just outside of Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland because it means we get to see working sheep dogs herding the thousand or so sheep which graze on green pastures around the grand Georgian farmhouse where we sleep. Mairead and Martin Power are the most accommodating of hosts. […]