A couple of years ago, I went to Barcelona. As a wheelchair user who travels a lot, I am depressingly used to things being pretty hard work. In many countries access is patchy at best (most wheelchair users therefore end up going back to the same places again and again). But Barcelona was a breath [...]
Three years ago, when we decided to move to Australia, to live near Sydney in Pearl Beach, Justine said "I'm buggered if we're going to be in Pearl Beach in 2011, and unable to stroll along it hand in hand together!" So began our search to find a powered wheelchair that could cope with sand, [...]
I’ve just returned from a six-day break in Barcelona. Two things struck me in particular about a wheelchair-using disabled person spending time in this wonderful city. Firstly, the ability to get to so many places is like a breath of fresh air for a wheelchair user – particularly one like me, coming from London. Both [...]
I arrived in London to complete my Everything is Possible in Life Cycle ride nearly 3 weeks ago. Back home, when I first sat in my powered wheelchair again (having spent a month on the road without it), I felt like I was being given some independence back. For 32 days, when I wasn’t cycling, [...]