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Sep 27
A wheelchair accessible journey across Japan

Jump to accessibility notes Japan had been top of the list of places I wanted to go for a very long time. It was somewhere Matt and I had talked about visiting since we first met, but it was always something for “some day” rather than the next trip – it would be an expensive […]

Jan 01
A wheelchair accessible evening in Paris

Paris was the first destination on our inter-rail trip. As we only had one evening there, the Eiffel Tower was the very top of our list of things to do – and so the one thing that we had pre-booked. The views across Paris were spectacular, but it was seeing the tower up close that […]

Jan 01
A Wheelchair Accessible Swiss Train Adventure

Jump to accessibility notes Arriving in Switzerland Zermatt was the third stop on our inter‑rail trip. We travelled on an ICE train from Freiburg into Switzerland, then made a couple of changes to get to Zermatt. The station in Freiburg had called ahead, as it was a train that required a boarding ramp. I always […]

Dec 01
Welcome to Accessible Planet!

Recently, I booked a last minute holiday to Corfu. I finally settled on Corfu the morning before we had to leave, which meant that there wasn’t much time investigate wheelchair accessible hotels. I narrowed it down to two– but none of the booking sites had any details on wheelchair access for either. From a Google […]