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News Flash: I am currently in Johannesburg, training with my new guide dog. I’m not going to say too much about it now but be sure you will be learning more about the training and my new partner soon, I promise! One of the places we discovered while in Mauritius was the Aapravasi Ghat, referred …
In my last post, I mentioned that the Inclusive Heritage ‘Kanala’ (please) project had one more exciting outcome for Karren Visser and myself. At the start of the project we had discussed asking South African journalist Florence de Vries if she would consider writing an article for the traditional media on what we had been …
Having visited the District Six Museum and looked of the way the museum collaborates with visitors to give them the best experience, we decided to focus our energy on how to make the storytelling aspect of the museum more inclusive for people who were unable to engage with the physical exhibitions and photographs. To do …
Having been notified that we had been successful in our funding application for the Inclusive Heritage ‘Kanala’ (please) project, our first step was to visit the District Six Museum to gain a sense of their existing exhibits and what the visitor experience might be like for a blind or partially blind person. Our plan was …
Following the success of the blind photography project, professional photographer Karren Visser and I decided to collaborate on a second project. We put in a funding application to the UK-based disability arts group Unlimited which, in partnership with British Council, invited proposals for projects promoting disabled arts. The project that Karren and I decided to …
I have always loved history. One of my favourite forms of relaxation is to curl up with a book that can teach me something about a time or place that is unfamiliar to me. With that in mind, it would seem to be a natural extension to assume that I enjoy visiting museums. Because they’re …
I love visiting countries where English isn’t the primary language spoken – language is so much a part of a culture and a national identity. But, as someone who speaks only a smattering of other languages, communicating in these countries can sometimes pose a bit of a problem. I usually find that people in the …
Having said that my primary interest in going to Normandy was to discover a little of the history of the area at the time of William the Conqueror, who successfully invaded England in 1066, the Bayeux Tapestry seemed a good place for me to start. The Tapestry is a 70-metre-long embroidery depicting the story of …
So, now that we’ve arrived in Normandy, I guess the next important question is what we’re going to do while we’re there? For my husband Craig, the obvious answer was to visit the sites of the WWII Normandy landings – not just the beaches themselves, although Omaha and Utah were easily within driving distance from …
Craig and I have a tradition. When we travel to a new country, we buy a small flag of whatever country we’ve been to. These flags are displayed in our indoor braai room –barbeque, for those who aren’t South African. So far, we’ve collected around 20 flags. This begs the question of why our recent …