August, 2022 Day 1: Arrival at Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport Paris (3 nights) Highlights of this tour: Paris Latin Quarter Louvre with guided tour Notre Dame (exterior) Seine River Cruise Eiffel Tower at night for the light show Montmarte and Sacre Couer D-Day landing beaches and museums, American cemetery Stay in a chateau […]
January 12, 2016 One of the advantages of taking a private, custom-designed tour in Europe is that you can shape the trip to just about anything you desire. What are your unique interests? Your passions? Let us build those into the perfect trip, which has been designed just for you and your alone (or your […]
December 20 Do you love the medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber as much as we do? After all, it’s been our homebase in Europe since 1999. Now you can enjoy the splendid “Walk of the Nightwatchman” LIVE and unedited (OK, maybe a little bit edited) as he makes his rounds, telling stories, jokes […]
October 11 Recent guests from Minnesota visited the village of Marklohe, Germany recently. The blog address below shows photos from this brief stop on the way to Amsterdam. Rosen Family in Marklohe
October 8 This is where it all started, 25 years ago. Sent on assignment by the European ‘Stars and Stripes’ to Bremerhaven, I saw the sign leading to Bremen as I was zipping down the autobahn. I called my mother from a payphone along the road. ‘Mom, what does Bremen mean to our family?’ She […]
October 3 A blog post from a family tour we did back in 2006 resulted in Marv Rosen bringing his family to Germany to visit relatives, see ancestral villages and also take in some of the beautiful and historic countryside of Germany and the Netherlands. The Rosens visited Marklohe, Niedersachsen towards the end of their […]
August 21 There are baptismal fonts and then there is the font in the little church at Kirchtimke, near Steinfeld, Niedersachsen, Germany. While the church is older than most in America, having been built in 1739, the font is truly spectacular. It is Romanesque and dates back at least 1,000 years. That means it was […]
August 11 Give us 11 months to prepare for a family history trip and you just never know what you are going to experience. How about stepping foot into the house where your great-grandmother lived as a little girl? What about wine tasting with cousins, who by the way, also make that wine? What about […]