Phenomenal Women: Lois Strachan

Posted on by Deirdré Gower
Lois Strachan
I recently came to know of Lois Strachan when she appeared as a guest on the Travel Chat Show on Hashtag Radio. After we too were hosted on the show, speaking about the work we do, Lois and I connected on social media. After following each other's work for a while, it became more and more apparent that we share a similar vision for creating awareness and access to information for both travelle...
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Phenomenal Women: Meet Nisha Varghese

Posted on by Deirdré Gower
Phenomenal Women - Nisha Varghese
In the word's of Maya Angelou's iconic poem: "I am a woman, phenomenally. Phenomenal woman. That's me." It is fitting today, as we celebrate women, that we launch our interview series featuring a phenomenal woman, Nisha Varghese.  I met Nisha on Twitter when she came across something I had posted, I can't recall what, but she took the time to tweet a video encouraging me as a mother an...
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Adapting Business for Accessible Travel

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Adapting Business for Accessible Travel In a perfect world, all buildings and activities would be built from scratch with accessible travel in mind - they'd be easy to use for every person regardless of individual ability. However, we don't live in a perfect world, most existing buildings were not established with this in mind, and no two person's needs and abilities are the same. So where do...
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Discussing Universal Access in Tourism on Hashtag Radio

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Hashtag Radio
We were invited by the #TravelChatSA team to be their guests on their weekly travel show on Hashtag Radio. We joined Marlize Stander and Megan Richards in studio for a two hour conversation around Warrior On Wheels Foundation, Accessible South Africa and universal access in tourism. We discussed the history and inspiration for both the foundation and the website initiative, shared the excitement ...
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A Little Bit of Heaven on Earth at Creation Wines

Posted on by Deirdré Gower
A Little Bit of Heaven on Earth at Creation Wines “If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul” – Clifton Fadiman Having visited on two previous occasions as a member of the Travelling Media team - the first being during the 2015 Fynarts Festival, and the second for the 2016 Cape Whale Coast Mini Indaba, the memory of Creation Wines has been etched into my wine-loving, foodie soul. With a...
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#TravelChatSA – Disability in Tourism

Posted on by Deirdré Gower
We, Warrior On Wheels Foundation, were invited by Travel Opulent Box to guest co-host this week's #TravelChatSA Twitter chat, with the topic being Disability in Tourism. The chat was well supported with the passion for change to be implemented in tourism to cater for people with disabilities resonating throughout the tweets. Along with this desire to see more tourism offerings becoming universa...
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West Coast National Park – Wheels in the Duine

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We are on a bit of a roll, if you will excuse the pun, this time with a review of a wheelchair accessible SANParks destination. It is the West Coast National Park and its rather unique “Duinepos Chalets”, located just 90 minutes drive from Cape Town in the Western Cape. It is here where nature lovers from all over the world come to recharge their spirits. Duinepos Chalets is a community-based p...
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The Way Things Should Always Be

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It is always refreshing to learn of a new B&B which is wheelchair accessible. It is even more enjoyable when that B&B is located in our favourite town of Robertson, in the heart of the Western Cape on the famous Route 62. We first discovered Robertson in the mid-1990s when the individual wine farms were beginning to break away from the co-operative business model. It was the beginning o...
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12 Things to do at the V&A Waterfront – Cape Town

Posted on by Deirdré Gower
The V&A Waterfront is undoubtedly one of the most visited tourist hot-spots in Cape Town, and it is not difficult to understand why with such a diverse offering of experiences to tantalise even the pickiest of tastes. For wheelchair users, there are a number of options when spending a day or two with the ocean beside you and our majestic mountain keeping watch. 1. Go Shopping The V&A...
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Accessible Adventure with Cape Sidecar Adventures

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The roar of an engine, the thrill of the open road, and the wind in your hair - this and more is what to expect on an epic day out with Cape Sidecar Adventures. Recently, the team kitted up to take ten differently-abled children from Warrior On Wheels Foundation for the ride of a lifetime on a gorgeous autumn morning. Meeting at the new depot in Salt River, the children, their parents and s...
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