Sunday it was balmy, about 76 degrees without a cloud in the sky. Today it’s raining and barely 45. That’s spring in Germany! I hear that it’s 84 and perfect in Sarasota. (And that’s not gray in my beard, that’s frost!)

European Focus Private Tours are the antidote to all of the upcharging and exhaustion-inducing “touring” forced on people by the mass produced travel industry. We don’t nickel and dime our guests. Your final payment is your final payment, period. Meals are included – and our guests choose what they want from the menu. No “optional” […]

The value of the dollar has a huge impact on the cost of travel and doing business in Europe. Right now, the dollar is “relatively” strong. Relative, that is, to the terrible weakness in the fall of 2008 when a Euro cost as much as $1.65 Travelers may look back on the current $1.31 to […]

A favorite shot from time spent in Dingle, Ireland. This Jack Russell Terrier obviously knows the health benefits of having a slurp of Ireland’s most famous beer daily at the Small Bridge Pub. This pub is a regular stopping place during our West Coast of Ireland trips.

James Derheim, founder and co-owner of European Focus Private Tours first arrived in Europe in the summer of 1989 to begin what turned out to be a pivotal job as a photographer for the European edition of the “Stars and Stripes” newspaper, published in Griesheim, near Darmstadt, Germany. More than a million miles traveled and […]

Starting today, clients wishing to reserve their spot on our calendar can do so with a $500 per person deposit using their Visa, MasterCard or AMEX. This allows quicker booking of prime, sought-after spots on the calendar and of course, allows our clients to rack up those points or miles faster! The balance of tour […]