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A month after I started dialysis my doctor asked me when we were going to start exploring the possibility of a kidney transplant. I took the decision to delay that conversation for two months while I became accustomed to dialysis. Esssentially, I wanted time to settle into the new routine. The problem with routines is …
As many of you know, I love travelling to new destinations and learning about different cultures. Over the years I’ve been fortunate to travel fairly extensively in pursuit of that passion. Okay, I’ve realized that I’ll probably never achieve my childhood dream of visiting everywhere in the world, and I’m content to be able to …
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 …