Articles Tagged ‘Travel’
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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Priority blogger Martyn Sibley talks to BBC breakfast about the good and bad of train journeys as a wheelchair user……….Talking trains on BBC breakfsat
And the BBC article……….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12176854
The drive to our hotel in LA, near to LAX airport took 4 hours. This would have been sizeable, but it flew compared to San Fran to Vegas. I was kind of glad to leave Vegas in the end. I would go another time with a bigger budget to gamble and maybe one crazier drunk night, but while our trip ticked everything I hoped for, I did find it a little over bearing and claustrophobic. It definitely had a big thumbs up on accessibility though.
Arriving at the Best Western hotel, which Srin booked while we were in San Fran, we hit the same initial problem. Yep, the shower was not a roll in. On asking at reception there was nothing …
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With our car problems behind us we embarked on the longest car journey I have ever taken in my life. It didn’t make sense to go to LA then Vegas, before back to LA for the flight home. So we plunged for the 10 hour trip to save time in the long run. It actually wasn’t as bad as I thought. We chatted, listened to tunes and I read my new Amazon Kindle (much easier for me than a heavy book). The video shows the vast amounts of desert and then the fantastic bright lights as you hit the Vegas strip.
We had managed to book the Vegas rooms before leaving the UK too. We went for the MGM Grand on …
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So this is the first of 3 blogs on my recent trip to the US of A. Part 1 will show the importance of planning and then layout the awesomeness that is San Francisco! ‘Awesomeness’ is a word as I heard it on American radio – ok.
It is not unheard of to say planning is key, but with my disability and additional needs it is 10 times more important. Having completed my trip of a lifetime to Australia 5 years ago much of the steps were the same. However this trips original idea was conceived back in May at the Sunnier Days event I ran http://martynsibley.com/video-of-sunnier-days-event-3. My friend Srin said during the seminar he was planning a trip to …
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First of all do not fear! This is not a “I went away for 12 days and found myself” blog. I am still the same old me. However probably due to the time away I did gain some clarity on my blogs.
I know people follow my blogs because there is some fun stuff and inspirational pieces from time to time, but I have appreciated others would like more detailed information. For example in the holiday video I shot how I am lifted from the plane to my wheelchair. The trip also highlighted the many extra things I have to plan and think about. Therefore my new beginning starts with the coverage of the California and Vegas road trip by giving …
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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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