Peberdoo's Blog

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...

This post is a bit after it happened, so bear with me when it comes to some of the details. Last summer we decided to take the kids on a camping trip to Germany that would allow us to go to Europa Park but also to do a few other things in the area. I spent some time finding a camping site that would be able to take our huge family tent, the dog, be in a good location for ironman training and not too far from Europa Park. We settled on the great campsite Campingpark...

For Christmas 2021 we gave the kids 4 options to chose from for the family holiday. Christmas in Lapland with Santa, Skiing in Austria, a week with the Grand parents or Christmas in Egypt with Pyramids and Mummies. Guess what they chose, much to my own delight? Jump to conclusions of trip -> So, the planning for Egypt began. We have travelled in a number of MENA countries and knowing some of the difficulties with these places we decided to book a private package trip, to still have some control over the travel plans but to have someone else...

For Easter 2022 we decided to take a trip to Prague with the children by train directly from home in St-Cergue. We love taking train trips and have taken a few epic ones over the years, so when we thought about a trip to Prague we looked to see if there was a way to get to there by train. It just so happens that there is in fact a direct sleeper train from Zurich to Prague operated by the Czech railway company. The tickets are only released 60 days before the journey and for popular weekends they sell out...

In these final weeks of school holidays and still in the time of Covid we decided to go on a family (plus friends) camping trip to Feldkirch in Austria. We had a fantastic week with some greet friends and even though our original plan was to go without our kids and have an adult week away our plans were changed at the last minute and the kids came too. As you can see from the photo above we packed everything, a huge 7x7.5m tent, kitchen cabinet, stove, table and chairs, webber bbq, air mattresses, storage cabinets, bikes, child trailer and...

Recently we flew from Geneva to Malaysia with Etihad and were a bit disappointed with our experience. We expected a lot more from the middle east carrier as our experiences with Emirates and Qatar have always been very good. So we chose Etihad this time based on price, as we were flying for Christmas and New Year the prices on all airlines were quite high and so when we found a good price on Etihad we thought we would take it. We did not think before hand that Etihad was a budget airline but some of their practices seem to...

I would suggest going and getting yourself a cup of tea and some biscuits, as this is going to be a long one. Way back at the start of 2018 we decided to put together a Kilimanjaro trip and started recruiting friends for this idea and looking into the logistics behind it. You have many options when you look into a trip up Kilimanjaro. You can do it all yourself (expensive and guide still required from what I understand) or go with one of the many tour companies who are both foreign and local. We had took the advice from...

In September we did something that is turning into an annual thing for us as a family. We loaded everyone up in the car, put the bikes on the roof and drove across the continent to a rented accommodation for a week. This year it was Portugal via Andorra on the way there and Bordeaux on the return, which is over 3,500km. The stops being perfectly located to be able to spend the night with the kids, explore the places a little in the morning before continuing the journey. Even though this is not the first long trip with the...

In 2014 my wife and I decided to do the Tour do Mont Blanc. It is an ambitious trail that takes you through many mountain passes during a 170km hike. You cross through three countries and witness some fabulous views along what is often a 10 day hike. It is no easy hike and the preperation can be just as hard as the walk itself. There are some invaluable resourses out there that you should read and or buy if you are also looking to do the walk. http://www.walkingthetmb.com/ - This website has a lot of good information about...