A small country fair on a working Dumfriesshire estate, mud and rain included. Why my cane stayed in my bag for the day, how a phone camera became my only way of watching the main ring, the ownership story tucked beside a 1967 tractor, and the Highland cow that made the whole soggy afternoon worth it.
Read time: roughly 7 minutes.
A two night city break in Prague, a fairytale city built on cobbles. How I learned the route before I left home, why the trams deserve more respect than the cars, what happened when nobody recognised my white cane, and the trick that gave me Charles Bridge and Prague Castle entirely to myself. Read Time – 12 Minutes
Before I lost my sight, I drove, and I loved it. This week the RNIB invited me to climb inside one of the Waymo test cars now learning the streets of London, and to hear what a room of thirty visually impaired people really thinks about handing the wheel to a machine. This one is different: a special report from an afternoon where hope and hard questions sat side by side.
Read time: 11 minutes.
The ship is the easy part. The real challenge starts the moment I step off it, into an unfamiliar city every morning with a white cane and only a rough sense of which way the sea is. Lost in Barcelona, rescued by a stranger at a Bruges ticket machine, and nineteen storeys up a ropes course because curiosity won.
8 min read · Accessibility checklist included