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TRAVEL WITHOUT LIMITS REVAMPED FOR THIRD ISSUE – DISABILITY SPECIFIC MAGAZINE
Just before COVID-19 turned the world upside down and travel ground to a halt, we launched the third issue of our Travel Without Limits magazine. BJ is particularly happy with this issue and can find the pages he is on in a heartbeat. Now that …
POST COVID TRAVEL TIPS – TRAVELLING WITH A VULNERABLE FAMILY MEMBER
Our family is carefully emerging and rejoining the community. It was an easier decision to go into isolation than to come out of our bubble. AJ returning to school was the beginning and although Hubby is working from home, he's had to go to meetings …
TRAVEL HEALTH & HYGIENE – ADVICE FROM INDUSTRY INSIDERS
Growing up in a household with a mother who is germ conscious (at times to the extreme) has always made me aware of travel health and hygiene. In some ways I feel she was ahead of her time with her ideas, but perhaps the reality is our society has …
ADAPTIVE CLOTHING FOR AT HOME AND TRAVEL – EVERY HUMAN
Recently BJ was gifted a pair of jeans from EveryHuman, a business which work with brands who have made subtle adjustments to mainstream fashion. They’ve often replaced buttons with magnetic closures, created one-handed zippers on shoes, designed AFO …
WHEELCHAIR CLEANING & HYGIENE
We’ve all hopefully got the message about washing our hands as a precaution in the fight against transmission of Covid-19. There has also been much talk about cleaning surfaces which are frequently touched like door handles, phones and using gloves …
PREPARING FOR CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) LOCK DOWN
Our family is taking the current situation with Coronavirus (Covid-19) around the world seriously and we've begun preparing for what seems like an inevitable lock down. We’d continued as normal for quite some time but over the weekend things shifted …
NEW ZEALAND – ACCESSIBLE TRAVEL TIPS
Accessible planning tips for New Zealand Earlier this year we travelled to New Zealand and learnt a thing or two in our travels which we thought may help others when planning an accessible holiday to New Zealand. AIR NEW ZEALAND The …
WANDERLOUD – HIRING A DESTINATION PHOTOGRAPHER
I've been using our travel photos to jog my memory when writing about our last two trips and I've noticed there's something missing from our New Zealand photos. Mostly, me! There's few photos of all four of us but they're not great. And as much as I …
HOW TO MAKE A COMMUNICATION BOOK FOR A PERSON WHO IS NON-VERBAL
Although the main focus of our blogging is around travelling as a family, we've found one of the places where BJ needs support is when he's at respite (short term accommodation). When he started going to respite we had a sit down meeting and went …
