Our blog this week come from our friends at the Royal Air Force Museum who tell us what they have done to become more accessible.
The Royal Air Force Museum Hendon is one of two sites belonging to the U. K's only national museum that tells the story of the Royal Air Force through its people and collections. For visitors, we make our collectio...
Travel can open our minds to some amazing experiences and new adventures. As a visually impaired explorer and journalist, I like to set aside a bit of time before I hit the road, normally to decide which essentials I should pack, and do some planning.
Planning ahead
I always put together a rough itinerary before I reach my destination. For me...
I write as someone who has grown up with deafness in my family. My mother has profound hearing loss and uses hearings aids and British Sign Language (BSL) to communicate. All other members of my family, including me, are hearing, albeit selectively so. I cannot and will not write about what it is like to be deaf or be subject to some form of...
Dublin is a lively spot with a huge range of bars to whet your whistle in but when it comes to finding a place to suit a wheelchair, you need to look a little bit harder. Here are five of Legless In Dublin’s favourite bars to make it easier!
The Black Sheep61 Capel Street, Dublin 1
The Black Sheep is a post-work pint favourite as it has a reall...
Hello, Thomas Williams here - your intrepid guide to all things on wheels. Euan's Guide have asked me to consider my journey to their home as their next blog. What do I mean? Edinburgh of course. I visited Edinburgh this August for my annual pilgrimage to the Guardian International Television Festival - a who's who celebrity spot for those wh...
Hello, Thomas Williams here - your intrepid guide to all things by wheels. This time the Euan's Guide team have asked me to discuss how I approach accommodation at University. In order to create tips for you I went back on a trip down memory lane and visited my former academic home at the University of Bradford. Hopefully you can use my tips...
It was a few weeks before my sister was jetting off around the world on her second gap year and we wanted to spend some quality time with my mum, who has Multiple Sclerosis and has no mobility from the neck down. As a family, we've always had a pretty can do attitude to everything despite the obvious challenges (mainly because my mum does!).
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It's Tom Williams again - your intrepid guide to all things by wheels. I left you last time having just taken the no 9 bus from Green Park tube to the Royal Albert Hall. Just a quick aside - I am aware from the Transport for All website that some buses on routes 9 ( and also 15) are serviced by the Heritage Routemasters and are not accessibl...
Hello my name is Tom Williams. I am a new regular contributor to the Euan's Guide blog and will be uttering my pearls of wisdom about my life as a powerchair user as I encounter various adventures across the UK. I hope that one blog will have relevance to the next and act as a continued inspiration to disabled people as they seek out new exper...
Birding For All is a relatively young organisation seeking to improve access for people with disabilities to reserves, facilities and services for birding. We have members across the world but the majority live in the UK. When we set up in 2000 it was known as the ‘disabled birders association’ but we changed the name to ‘Birding For All’ in...