Fabulous Accessible Interiors
Even when you've done all your research on your holiday let, hotel room, or when you're travelling to stay with a friend or relative, there's inevitably something that doesn't quite meet your access needs, be it stairs in your friend's home, no grab rails near the loo or in the shower, or sleeping in a [...]
Next up on my occasional series of travel posts, I thought I'd do a quick round up of our recent trip to Copenhagen. Mr WCH, a friend and I travelled in December 2019 for a long weekend to visit the Christmas markets and to see Copenhagen all a-twinkle with lights. we found some pieces of [...]
Finding the perfect holiday home for your trip can be tricky. Hours of research, you look at reviews and maps and Google Street View, available dates and price. Imagine adding in accessibility requirements and the number of properties reduces to only a handful. Of course there are various levels of accessibility requirements and some homes [...]
Travelling around America is usually good from an accessibility perspective due to the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and this is true of the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral Florida. The centre itself is really only accessible by car as it's located in the middle of nowhere. On arrival at the parking booth ($10 [...]
With the August Bank Holiday looming and no real holiday taken as such this year so far, we decided to take a quick trip to Zurich in Switzerland for the weekend. Why Zurich? Well we were using frequent flyer miles and as we booked it two days before travel on one of the busiest weekends [...]
The husband and I are big fans of travelling and on the bucket list was a trip across by Canada by train. So after checking with the company as to access, we booked a trip on the famous Rocky Mountaineer and then planned the rest of the trip around the train. We flew to Vancouver [...]
If you've seen my post on the The Perfect Wheelchair for travellers and the account of our trip to Iceland you will know how we've used the wheelchair to get to us around, not letting my husband's MS get the better of us. This month we had the opportunity to visit a friend in the Tuscany/Umbria borders of Italy. [...]
(Note - this is not a sponsored post, all views and opinions in this post are those of myself and my husband and based on personal experience). Once my husband had accepted that having a wheelchair was an enabler, not a sign of weakness for his MS, so many places opened up to us. [...]
Iceland has long been on my bucket list so we were really excited to finally get something booked up with a couple of friends for late February this year. We arrived on a very windy day with almost white-out conditions and as the front door of the plane opened an icy blast hit us. Reykjavik [...]