Christmas in Tunisia
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May 16th, 2024
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For the Christmas Holidays in 2023 we decided to take the family to Tunisia. Somehow, even though we say no more MENA holidays, we keep ending up there and we do keep enjoying ourselves.
We were shocked at how cheap the flights and hotel were and how short the flight was. We flew on EasyJet on the 24th December to Enfidha El Hammamet airport for CHF 700 for the whole family with luggage, and the flight took less than 2 hours and is in the same timezone as Switzerland. We had booked a car at the airport with Avis for...
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Canada and US trip - Part 4 - Toronto and New York City
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Feb 20th, 2024
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What do you do when you have 10 days without the kids and a chance to go on a holiday. Plan a 2700km car journey and 900km train ride across the US and Canada, taking in the culenary and natrual beuty along the way. Finishing up in New York.
Part 1 - Journey to Halifax and Halifax area
Part 2 - Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
Part 3 - US Road Trip - Main to Niagra Falls
Part 4 - Toronto and New York City
Toronto
Our next stop that day was Toronto. We had...
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Canada and US trip - Part 3 - US Road Trip - Main to Niagra Falls
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Feb 20th, 2024
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What do you do when you have 10 days without the kids and a chance to go on a holiday. Plan a 2700km car journey and 900km train ride across the US and Canada, taking in the culenary and natrual beuty along the way. Finishing up in New York.
Part 1 - Journey to Halifax and Halifax area
Part 2 - Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
Part 3 - US Road Trip - Main to Niagra Falls
Part 4 - Toronto and New York City
Maine USA
The following morning we stopped at the...
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Canada and US trip - Part 2 - Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
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Feb 20th, 2024
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What do you do when you have 10 days without the kids and a chance to go on a holiday. Plan a 2700km car journey and 900km train ride across the US and Canada, taking in the culenary and natrual beuty along the way. Finishing up in New York.
Part 1 - Journey to Halifax and Halifax area
Part 2 - Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
Part 3 - US Road Trip - Main to Niagra Falls
Part 4 - Toronto and New York City
Prince Edward Island
We then had another 45 minute...
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Canada and US trip - Part 1 - Travel and Halifax
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Feb 20th, 2024
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What do you do when you have 10 days without the kids and a chance to go on a holiday. Plan a 2700km car journey and 900km train ride across the US and Canada, taking in the culenary and natrual beuty along the way. Finishing up in New York.
Part 1 - Journey to Halifax and Halifax area
Part 2 - Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
Part 3 - US Road Trip - Main to Niagra Falls
Part 4 - Toronto and New York City
In September 2023 we were in the luxurious position of...
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Family holiday in Lithuania 2023
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Jan 22nd, 2024
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This year we decided to do our holiday away with the kids as a camping holiday in Lithuania and Latvia. We drove with the kids and the dog in a very packed car, with 4 bikes on the back and a completely full roof box for what was supposed to be a 2 weeks of camping across Lithuania and Latvia.
I am no stranger to long drives and so when we were planning our holiday, I didn’t even think twice about booking the trip to drive there. It seemed the obvious way to get there and allowed us to use...
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Tbilisi weekend getaway
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Jul 25th, 2023
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This July we decided to get away for a long weekend with some friends in Tbilisi, Georgia. This was planned very quickly to be both a random place where most people's response when we tell them we are going is “why”, and also easy for our group to get to (not entirely true: Tbilisi had been on our hitlist for a while, and we knew it was well-known as a bit of a hidden gem)
While there are no direct flights from Geneva to Tbilisi, the flights on Lufthansa via Munich were easy and affordable although admittedly still pricey at...
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Hellfest done Right
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Jul 13th, 2023
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This year (2023) I decided to go to Hellfest again after having gone in 2022 and realising that it is a fantastically dun festival and fully deserves to be rated as one of Europe's best festivals.
Last year we drove over from Switzerland with an overnight stay on the way there and a long drive on the way back. This was ok, but it was long, a bit expensive anyway, and by the time we got there camping places were few and far away from the festival site.
So this year I decided I wanted to do it a little...
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Caribbean trip Pt-4 Guadeloupe
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Jul 10th, 2023
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I continued my trip through the Caribbean with a final and longest leg of the trip which was 1 week in Guadeloupe. For this part of the trip I would again have a car and would be doing a French course each week day that I was there and then sight seeing in the afternoon/evenings and on the weekend before I fly home.
The journey for this part of the trip started with me going to Ferry terminal in Dominica to get the ferry to Guadeloupe. As appose to the last ferry that I took this one was a lot...
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Caribbean trip Pt 3 - Dominica
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May 28th, 2023
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I got up early to leave St Lucia and had to leave my car at the port with the keys locked in. Having been shown how to do this when I collected the car it was no big deal. Except I made myself double check I had everything 3 times before I finally locked the car.
The checkin for the boat was fairly painless although I was a bit of an idiot and didn’t pay enough attention to the instructions and so after having gone through security and passport control I had to go back out to check my bag...
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