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...
Canada and US trip - Part 4 - Toronto and New York City
Canada and US trip - Part 3 - US Road Trip - Main to Niagra Falls
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...
Canada and US trip - Part 2 - Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick
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...
sirens airplanes and ambulances in a Rega baltic medical adventure
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...
Caribbean trip Pt 3 - Dominica
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...
Heli Ski weekend in Romania?
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...
Family Train Trip to Prague
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...
Via Ferrata Morez
Although I have been climbing for years (mostly sports climbing) Via Ferrata is not something I was aware of until I got to Switzerland. It is a form of climbing where there are wires, hand holds and foot holds of iron placed into the wall. While this is a little...
Traithlons in the Lake Geneva region
A few years ago I got into traithlons in the UK and competed in a few. It was a great thing to train for and gave me so much satification when I finished all three legs of the event. When I came to switzerland I also wanted to get back...
Tour du Pays de Vaud running series in Vaud
Today is the first race of the Tour du Pays de Vaud for the 2014 season. This series is made up of both a Spring and summer series which have 3 and 5 races respectivly which are held in different villages at 7pm on wednesday evenings. It is a great...