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...


Family Train Trip to Prague
Travel /
Apr 30th, 2022
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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...

Jura Parc in the Valee de Joux
Activities with Kids /
Jul 16th, 2017
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Jura Parc
The Jura Park is a great little parc hidden up in the hills between Vallee de Joux and Vallorbe that has wolves, bears and buffalo.
This place is great for taking kids to for a number of reasons.
THEY SERVE FOOD ALL DAY! Now, we have been caught out enough times ourselves with not being able to be served in Switzerland and France because we showed up too late to a food place. But here they serve kid friendly foods all day. You can even try some buffalo here from their breeding stock.
The whole park...
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