Peberdoo's Blog

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...

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...

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...

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...

Our fun family trip to Lithuania and Latvia took an unexpected turn when just as we were finishing up our week of camping in the Curonian Spit, our 5-year-old daughter began complaining of very painful sores on the insides of her thighs. For a few days prior, we had been trying to keep them clean and covered with bandages but to no avail. On the last day of the Lithuanian leg and as we were on our way to Latvia, Samantha was in so much pain and discomfort that we decided to stop in Klaipeda and find a hospital to...

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...

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...