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What is Lustig Tours? 
It's a holiday in Europe, and sometimes the continental US, for small groups, organized and hosted by Ross and Valina Polka from Das ist Lustig.   Want to see where we've been and what we've done?  Scroll down and check out some of the links to videos made by friends who traveled.  What's coming up?  A trip to Germany and Switzerland in May - June 2027.  Click Here to see more!

Here is a video of Ross, Valina and Evelyn performing Stille Nacht in the Silent Night Chapel in Oberndorf, Austria, in June 2025.  The whole tour group is singing along, and at the end, Ross sets down the accordion, and plays the singing saw.  Video captured by Steven and Valerie H.
“Music, fun and dancing every where we went....such a merry band of travelers....were we”

— Carole W

Each Europe trip is unique, visiting different regions of Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and more.  Excursions are hand picked.  Sometimes, guests are guided (in English) through palaces, castles, and cathedrals.  Sometimes we visit museums, monuments, breweries, and wineries.  Sometimes we are guided through smithies, foundries, and historic city centers.  Sometimes, we have outdoor adventures to water falls, open air museums, folk festivals, dinner cruises, horse drawn carriage rides, and scenic mountain tops.  Free time in most places for shopping and exploring too!  You get a small group experience, you get that slower travel pace you've always dreamed of,  plus, there’s live music daily!  Local musicians play for guests, we attend a concert, or your hosts Ross and Valina play.  They bring their instruments along to entertain you. 
 
Trips in the continental US are fun, with local gatherings to see Texas history, breweries, wineries and other fun places.  Party buses to German festivals around the country where we play, or where we just want to go!  The Road Trip 2022 took us through several top notch German restaurants, two really great Dutch restaurants, a fascinating bone museum, American history at a sunken river boat treasure, adventure at the Gateway Arch, a village of Dutch heritage, a village of German heritage, the pre-prohibition US wine country, and old Route 66. Lots of music and laughs all along the way!
 

It's more like a family vacation with friends.  Our late friend Carl Henderson has been on every one of  our trips, from 2016 through 2024.   Here are some videos and photos he edited together to share the experiences.  Click on the links below! 

2016 Germany Trip

2017 Germany Trip part 1

2017 Germany Trip part 2

2018 Germany and Netherlands Trip part 1

2018 Germany and Netherlands Trip part 2   

2019  Austria Trip

2024 Germany & Czech Republic Trip

Would you like to go to Europe and visit the places about which you've always heard?
Would you like to tell your friends about places you got to visit?  Would you like to travel with a small group, in a private bus with drinks, air conditioning, a lavatory, and no worries about where to park, or who's going to drive you home?  Are you ready to experience the best holiday ever? 

In July 2015, we embarked on an exciting research trip to Germany and the Netherlands, where we picked up a whole suitcase full of brochures from places we visited with the hopes of taking you with us for our next visit!  There is so much to be seen, tasted, experienced, discovered, and photographed.  Beautiful landscapes, imposing fortresses, romantic vinyards, relaxing waterways, exciting cultural displays, breathtaking palaces, basilicas and cathedrals...the list could go on and on!  From the centuries old cobbles under your feet to the tops of the cathedral spires, when you're in Europe, you're surrounded by unbelievable beauty and history!