Peberdoo's Blog

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I arrived late in St Lucia on my little plane at this tiny little airport in Castries and even though the plane was late the lady from the car rental company was waiting just for me. It was not hard to find the car in the parking lot as the airport parking only had space for 10 cars. I headed out from the airport and found my hotel to check in. I asked the friendly staff where I could get something to eat and was advised that at that hour, nothing would be open except Dominos Pizza. I decided I...

Caribbean adventures Pt. 1: 26 hours in Barbados It was an early start to the day with a 7am flight from Geneva to London on BA. Thankfully Vanessa didn’t complain and was super kind enough to drop me at the airport rather than us doing some convoluted thing with the car so she could get it later. The Geneva side of things was uneventful and I was soon in London with a 4 hour transit until my next flight. Off to the lounge where I grabbed a little food, a drink and then settled in to read my book and...

This year we decided to try and book another heliski trip as it is so much fun and Vanessa has missed out each time I did it in the past. When thinking of ski locations, Romania is probably not one of the first to come to mind, especially if you are then thinking of heliski as well. But I have been receiving the brochure from HeliSki Romania (HELISKI Romania - home page) for a while now and we really wanted to give this team and the ski area at Muntele Mic and the vast mountains outside...