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Last week on the blog I told you about speaking at the World Travel Market, Africa 2024 as part of two panels discussing accessible travel. A few days afterwards I was approached by Tarryn Tomlinson, the leader of one of those panels, asking if I’d be willing to travel to Durban to speak at another …
I am always excited to hear about travel experiences that have been designed to be accessible to people with disabilities. Which is why I was so thrilled to hear about the Limitless Cape Town campaign launched in my home city. Cape Town is generally considered to be one of the world’s most beautiful travel locations, …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. If you read my last article, you’ll know that my mom came back from Mauritius, wherever that is, a few weeks ago. I think it may be taking time for her to recover from being away from me, because I see she hasn’t written any blog posts for a …
Since moving to South Africa from the UK when I was four years old I have lived by the sea, first in Durban and now in Cape Town. Despite this, and notwithstanding the fact that spending time on the beach has always been a favourite activity of people around me, I have never really been …
I’ve recently discovered a love of reading travel memoirs. While it in no way replaces the experience of exploring different countries and cultures, it does at least give me a taste of the travel I used to be able to do, and will hopefully be able to return to in time to come. A travel …
There’s a commonly held opinion that the French people actively dislike the English, and that this often affects English-language speakers from other countries. This general dislike is said to be especially so of the Parisiennes. At least, that’s what I’d been told. Yet, in the three weeks I was in France, that simply wasn’t my …
There I was, guiding mom through the busy crowds at the V&A Waterfront when I got such a fright I almost tripped over my own paws. Which never happens… well, apart from that time I got startled by a bicycle changing gears right behind me and landed up splayed on the floor completely unintentionally. The …
Sometimes I’d love to be able to read Fiji’s mind. Like when we were 40 metres above the ground on the Cape Wheel carousel in the V&A Waterfront. I wasn’t sure how Fiji would react to being sealed into a fairly small compartment and then seeing the world disappear from beneath her paws. To be …
A few months ago I started writing for an e-newsletter called The Blind Perspective. What’s so great about this newsletter is that it’s written by visually impaired people for a visually impaired audience. My articles focus on why I love traveling to different places, and how I do so. What’s interesting for me as a …
Okay, so perhaps I didn’t go island hopping for 10 years like Odysseus did on his way home from the trojan War as described in Homer’s The Odyssey, but I felt my recent trip to Greece was no less of an an epic adventure than that great work! Over the next few weeks I’m going …