Articles written by Srinivas Madipalli
After coming back from California, I immediately, got ready to embark on the final stage of my travels around the world. The plan was to spend three days in Singapore and then ten days in Bali, where I would meet up with a friend of mine, Andrew who is also a wheelchair user, and his PA. The main highlight of this trip was a scuba dive in Bali which we specially organised and was an absolutely incredible experience.
By way of a little background to those who haven’t read any of my previous travel articles, this trip was part of my travels around the world during my time off from work. I work as a solicitor as at a commercial …
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California was the next stage of my travels, where I was accompanied by fellow blogger Martyn Sibley. I travelled several days before Martyn to see a friend in Boston before flying to San Francisco where I met up with Martyn.
Martyn’s blog entries provide a great account of our trip!
http://www.prioritytrust.org/blog/travel-planning-with-my-disability-its-10-times-more-important/
http://www.prioritytrust.org/blog/accessibility-in-las-vegas/
http://www.prioritytrust.org/blog/california-dreaming-teething-problems-and-jack-black/
Its 6.30 in the morning of October 25, I am staring out the window of our van, my heart beating slightly faster than usual with my eyes fixated and staring in awe towards an another anonymous tree. The creature lying in the tree shaded from the morning sunshine is no ordinary sight by any means. My attention is captured with a mix of fear and awe by a beautiful leopard, one of nature’s most fearsome predators gazing out across the open savannah on probably what for amazing creature just another normal day in Kruger National Park.
This is an article about my most incredible adventure to South Africa which took me to Johannesburg, the Kruger National Park and its surrounding highlands …
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For the next leg of my trip I thought I’d try a different mode of travel. I had always heard that cruise holidays were really easy for people with disabilities and that it was a good way of seeing many places in one holiday. So I booked a two week trip with P&O on the cruise liner Oceana, which called at the ports of Gibraltar, Cartagena, Rome, Florence, Ajjacio (Corsica), Barcelona and Cadiz.
It terms of adaptations, I really couldn’t find any flaws with the cruise liner. It was easy to move around the ship, getting on and off the ship at each port was straightforward (although the ramp could be a bit steep depending on the tide) and my cabin …
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I write this after returning from the second trip of my travels during my time off work. This was a family holiday to Orlando, Florida to visit more family and to allow my father to attend his college reunion which was being held at the hotel we were staying at.
I love going to the US. Everything always seems so straightforward and simple when it comes to all things “disability related”. I have been to the US many times before and I find people over there just seem to “get it” when it comes to disability. By this I mean staff at airports know exactly what to do, finding wheelchair accessible cars or taxis is easy, hotel staff know exactly what …
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It has been a long-time since I last wrote a blog article. Better late than never I guess to start again! I recently finished my training contract as a trainee solicitor, and decided to take some time off before I resume my role as a qualified solicitor in January. During this period of time off I have embarked on a few travels and intend to do a few more trips before I head back to work. In August, I went on separate trips to Edinburgh, Brussels and Warsaw to see friends that I having in those cities.
For me, travelling can be a concoction of challenging adventure and painful ordeal. I have many things to take with me such as my …
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A little while ago I was looking to buy a new powered wheelchair. After receiving demonstrations from various companies, I never felt entirely convinced that I was receiving the full picture on whatever I may end up purchasing. A salesman is unlikely to say much about the bad features!
I searched the internet to see if I could find any views or thoughts about particular wheelchairs, but only ended up finding a scattering of blog / message board postings and a handful of sites with some generic comments on particular individual wheelchairs.
I found this quite surprising, since it is possible to find detailed user reviews for nearly every product imaginable, but yet could not find anything particularly substantive or informative for …
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This is another one of those periods which was a real challenge. At some time during my second year of uni, I felt a sense of dread that in the not too distant future I would be leaving the somewhat comfortable environment of uni and would need to enter the real world of work. To compound this fear of the unknown, I did not have a clue what I wanted to do with myself. Even though I really enjoyed what I learnt as part of my genetics degree program, I knew very early on that a career in scientific research was just not for me.
I knew that I wanted to do something that could keep my mind occupied and give …
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Hello! My name is Srin and I am 23 years old. I have a disability called Spinal Muscular Atrophy and I use a powered wheelchair to get around in the world. I graduated from King College London in 2003 and I now work as trainee solicitor at a major corporate law firm in the City of London and live in central London.
I will be using this blog to share some of my experiences of major transitional periods of my life, which are faced by many, but involve unique challenges faced by those with disabilities. The first such period for me involves moving from home to live at university.
I started making preparations for moving to uni back in the summer of …
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