Exploring Europe with David McGuffin

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Exploring Europe with David McGuffin European travel information and advice, videos, posts, and photos. Tours to Europe with a focus on culture, art, history, and experiences.

OUR MISSION is to encourage Americans to broaden their cultural mindset through engaging and exciting travel experiences in Europe. We arrange affordable small-group tours to Europe and offer free travel information and advice.

09/29/2026

Reason number 4️⃣ why you should travel with 👇🏻

We Don’t Try to See 12 Cities in 8 Days 😵‍💫

Because you would see none of them. A twelve-city itinerary is really an eight-day bus 🚍 ride with photo stops, and the pace has a cost: you check out of a hotel before you’ve learned the way to the corner bakery, and the afternoon you’d have spent wandering gets spent on a highway instead. 👎🏻 I’d rather give you fewer places and the time to actually know them, so there’s time to sit 😌 in the square, notice how the light changes, and go back to the café where the owner recognizes you. I labor 🏃over every detail of the itinerary so we’re not waiting needlessly in a line, hunting for a site, or circling the block looking for a hotel. What we buy with that restraint is the part people actually remember.

09/16/2026

Reason number 3️⃣ why you should travel with
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How we find the restaurants we take you to!

I’ve spent years poking around Europe’s nooks and crannies in search of excellent food, good w**e, better b**r, and sparkling water. I guarantee you’ll experience some outstanding restaurants 🍽️ serving amazingly fresh, local dishes in an unpretentious manner. 🤌🏻Breakfast is included every morning, and we include about half of your lunches or dinners, 👀 enough that you eat well without our schedule swallowing every evening. The other meals are yours, and by day three you’ll have your own opinions about where to go.

09/13/2026

Reason number 2️⃣ why you should travel with


Our Guides!

I still lead many of my tours, but when I can’t, I choose trusted guides who share my love 🩷 for European travel. What I look for is a passion for teaching, not a script. Our guides like people, they like talking about the places we’re standing in, and they’d rather answer your question than finish their prepared remarks. Our goal is simple: that you get wrapped up in the joy 😊 of travel and come home having actually learned something.

09/08/2026

Reason number 1️⃣ to travel with 👇🏻

My groups rang in size from 6-18 people. A small group is more flexible than a typical big-bus 🚌 group, allowing us to see, do, and experience more. We provide a unique travel experience by treating you as individuals 😌 seeking to learn about your destination. A group this size can eat in a family-run trattoria that would never seat 5️⃣0️⃣. It can change plans on a rainy afternoon. And your guide will know your name by the time we head out on our first adventure. Small group travel is the only way to go!

Help Us Name the Newsletter! We have a small problem… our monthly newsletter is currently called “Newsletter.” 😅I think ...
09/07/2026

Help Us Name the Newsletter!

We have a small problem… our monthly newsletter is currently called “Newsletter.” 😅
I think we can do better so lets turn it into a contest!

What should we call the David McGuffin Exploring Europe Monthly Newsletter?

Put on your creative thinking cap and come up with a name that is:

🤪 Fun
🫴 Catchy
🌍 European-inspired

The winning name gets bragging rights AND the honor of naming this newsletter for all future issues!

Leave a comment with your best idea and let’s see who can come up with the winner!

You’ll have no worries when you travel with David McGuffin and Exploring Europe.  🌍 We take care of you and try to make ...
09/05/2026

You’ll have no worries when you travel with David McGuffin and Exploring Europe. 🌍 We take care of you and try to make your journey pleasant and stress-free 😌 from the moment you sign up for one of our tours.

Visiting Europe and its wonderful destinations is not difficult. The hard part is the 6️⃣ months beforehand trying to plan the adventure on your own: the hotel 🏨 reviews that contradict each other, the train connection that looks fine until you realize it’s a 40-minute walk between stations, the restaurant 🍽️ that turned out to be a tourist trap with laminated menus in four languages. That’s the part I’ve already done for you.

This year marks my 4️⃣9️⃣th year of traveling to Europe and my 2️⃣6️⃣th year of organizing tours there. I plan and design every itinerary myself, and I keep revising them, because knowing a place well is the only way to show it well. Below are some key questions travelers actually ask me before they sign up for a tour.

07/31/2026

TONIGHT @ 7:00 pm at David’s House 🏡
Croatia Live Event! Come on over to David’s house tonight and get more info on David’s Croatia cruise tour next year. The cabins are filling up, so book yours with us!

We’ll also be streaming it live if you can’t make it in person 😉

Here’s the zoom link to join:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6o-iJPbHTX6SfCU_OaRGeQ

Interested in going to Croatia next year? 🤔Join us in person this week to chat about it. Enjoy w**e and cheese as we exp...
07/28/2026

Interested in going to Croatia next year? 🤔
Join us in person this week to chat about it. Enjoy w**e and cheese as we explore all this trip has to offer!

This Thursday, July 30th at 7 pm
650 Chandler Drive, St.Johns FL

or Friday, July 31st at 7 pm
4036 Hidden Acre Road, Middleburg FL

Can’t make it in person? Join online!

07/26/2026

Worth it or leave it 🤔? Helping you plan your European vacation one city and attraction at a time.

Marcampo Italy, worth it 👍🏻

07/22/2026

Curious what island-hopping through Croatia is really like? 🤔
Come find out over w**e 🍷 and cheese 🧀! We’re hosting two casual meet-and-greets in Clay County and St. Johns County, Florida — drop by for great conversation, a short audiovisual preview of the tour, and time for all your questions.

Join us at either location:

July 30 | 7–9 PM
Jamie & Adam Veale
650 Chandler Dr., Saint Johns, FL 32259

July 31 | 7–9 PM
David & Charlotte
4036 Hidden Acre Rd., Middleburg, FL 32068

💻 Can’t make it in person? Join us LIVE on Zoom, July 31 at 8:00 PM.

Address

4036 Hidden Acre Road
Middleburg, FL
32068

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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+18005701351

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