GUEST POST: Travel is one of my favourite things
For most of my life I travelled ‘mainstream’ – booking hotels through a high street travel agent, hobbling on to transfer coaches, re-arranging furniture in the room to accommodate my wheelchair. Luckily, I’m quite mobile; I have cerebral palsy affecting my lower half but have been known to fling myself up a flight of stairs when the mood has taken me! But it wasn’t until I started working for Tourism for All that I realised travel can be made a lot easier.
Take train travel for instance. Who knew I could pre-arrange someone to carry my luggage and push me on to the train? Being parked so close to the wonderful smelling accessible loo isn’t so great, and having to glower at people who put suitcases in the wheelchair space. But getting