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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 …
To some people stepping into a revolving door may not be much of an issue. But for me, standing there with my white cane, stepping into the revolving door was a matter of deep thought and planning. Here’s why I find revolving doors scary: 1 Stepping in– as a blind person you have to figure …
I’m always keen to discover how accessible a destination is, not only for me as The Blind Tourist, but for those with other disabilities. As I’ve said before, each disability faces different challenges when traveling. As a simple example, a person in a wheelchair may have difficulty getting around a tourist site, if insufficient work …
Do you have any idea how nervous I felt crossing the multi-lane roads in Kolkata? And that was with sighted assistance. Doing so independently would have made me a nervous wreck! It wasn’t that the roads were busy. Well, it was partially that, because I’ve never experienced such high volumes of traffic, even in the …
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – the Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost. That may be a strange way to start an article about an experience I had in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) on my recent …
Several people told Craig and I that the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata was a “must-see” site. One of them told us to allocate an entire day since it was far from our hotel and there was just so much to see. Another told us we’d probably only need an hour to take in the site. …
No, I’m not turning my hand to writing mystery books Rather, this is my attempt to describe an unexpected challenge of not using tap water in India, which we’d been warned against by countless people. Washing our hands with liquid sanitiser was no hardship – we’ve been doing it for ages with the severe drought …
I know mom’s writing about her recent trip to India, so I decided to keep to her theme. From my own perspective, of course! Even though mom’s back now, I want to go back to the day before she left – to that moment when I first noticed that the dreaded suitcases had emerged from …
From the title of this post you might suspect I’ve switched genres and started writing bad science fiction. I promise that isn’t the case. The Mother House is the name given by locals to refer to Mother Theresa’s home in Kolkata, India. And that was the first site we visited on a day out in …
“Don’t drink the water – don’t even brush your teeth with it unless it’s from a bottle!” “It’s a very dirty city, and you’ll see signs of abject poverty every time you step outside your hotel!” These were just two of a multitude of cautionary messages that came our way when we started talking about …