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Danish Vibes – 48 hours in Copenhagen a review of SKT. Petri

Review of SKT Petri

A Soul & Sanity Saving City Break to Copenhagen

Copenhagen has never been on our bucket list until now.  We’ve always been a fan of the city break. Getting away for a few nights, and exploring a new destination always does wonders for the soul, and our sanity.  For this very reason we always try to book a couple of trips a year. Ok, we hold our hands up, these escapes usually coincided with Arctic Monkeys tour dates, but they were city breaks nevertheless.  In between the fan girling, city sights were definitely seen. read more

Vibes Life Essential Guide to Coachella – Part 3 Car Camping Vibes

This is part 3 of our Vibes Life Essential Guide to Coachella , for the full guide click here

Camping at Coachella? Do it right!

Camping at a festival is a right of passage for any adult let alone teenager. There’s not a festival campsite in the world that doesn’t have that lawless, “Mad Max” feel about it. A place where spontaneous riots/parties erupt out of nowhere and everybody you meet is a potential “new friend for life”.  Festival stripes are awarded to those who elegantly (and painlessly) navigate through 6 inches of mud to their camping spot. Armed with nothing but a rickety sack trolly, loaded to breaking point with 3 crates of beer, 2 sleeping bags, 1 tent and a pot noodle. read more

Vibes Life Essential Guide to Coachella – Part 2 A Vibes Life Mans “Crazy Ramblings” Guide to Online ticket Purchasing

Welcome to Part 2 of this Vibes Life Essential Guide to Coachella, the line up got announced this week, and the final release of General tickets go on sale this Friday, the 5th January 2018.  Securing tickets online for any festival is stressful at best, and there is no real “tutorial” that can be given for this essential part of the process. We know people who really struggle to get tickets when it comes to this method, and for whatever reason they miss out year after year.  All we can do is pass on our own little nuggets of advice in the hope that you to will be successful. Be prepared, trying to explain this in person and trying to write about it here are two completely different entities so at times you will find me ranting on like a deranged psychopath using words like “Data” and “Traffic”.  Stay with me, read through it a couple of times, make notes if you want and come Friday 19.00 GMT  (thats 11.00 PDT) it will all fall into place. My ramblings will turn into fact and you will keep your Kool in an international wide state of ticket buying panic.  Lets do this. read more

Meraki Vibes – The tale of surviving Emersons first festival.

A little bit about Meraki…

August this year saw the very first Meraki festival held in St Albans. The team behind this festival went all out to create a 3 day all inclusive bonanza. Camping, family activities and music all rolled into one.  The first thing that caught my eye with this festival was the amount on offer for the ticket price. Daily activities including baby sensory classes, arts and crafts, soft play, and kiddie raves that ran from 7am till 5pm? That seemed like good value.

The headliners? Let’s just say they’re not our usual cup of tea. Seeing as having a baby has completely robed us of rhythm we weren’t planing on doing much dancing. Getting to hear some live music whilst keeping the little dude entertained sounded good. I had to check this out. Meraki has more family friendly facilities than you can shake a stick at. This was a great chance to have a practice run for next years season and cut Emerson’s festival teeth.

So whats a guy gonna do?

I dived in head first and brought a weekend camping ticket for around £140. Instead of telling the wife I thought, I know I’ll keep quiet and surprise her a few days before.  Here’s a quick le

Vounaria Vibes – Baby’s First Holiday To Camvillia Resort, Greece

baby first holiday Camvillia Resort Vounaria Greece

When we booked our holiday back in March we were told that we were crazy. I was 8 months pregnant with my first baby, and in desperate need of a holiday.  We were used to at least a few trips a year so the urge to get on a flight was unreal, even at that late stage where I could barely tackle a step up a kerb let alone a packed plane with my giant self squeezed into an economy seat. I spent hours googling destinations, climate, flight times, baby safety and our evenings were made up of us debating where we should go. I was suffering severe holiday withdrawal it had been nearly a year since we last smelt that runway tarmac so booking a holiday as soon after the baby was born was a given and no one was going to tell us different. See I'm a Scorpio and we know best.