Archive: October 2008
Italy – Tours in Rome
We invested in two paid tours while in Rome, and I think it was money and time well spent. All my adult traveling life I have shied away from organized tours, but in the months leading up to this vacation my head was starting to explode from the effort of cramming adequate background information in, [...]
(Full Post)Italy – Hotels
We stayed in three hotels during our trip.
Rome
I found our Roman hotel by googling. I had three search criteria: under €150, centrally located (although I really didn’t know enough about the geography of the city center to be very intelligent about that), and accessible.
I emailed about two dozen hotels that seemed to vaguely fit my [...]
Italy – Planes, Trains and Vaporetti
I’m just back from a two week trip to Italy. We visited Rome, Florence and Venice. All the photos (including far too many pictures of bathrooms and far too few pictures of neat stuff) are on Flickr.
Planes
Transportation worked out well. We flew United from Denver to Dulles to Rome and back. Aisle chairs arrived on [...]
Accessible Trails
Some good news from the world of accessible trails:
Chris Trzcinski loves to hike, and the 15-year-old from Southern California wants to share his hiking information with other people. So he created his own Web site: www.greatwheelchairaccessiblehikes.com.
While many others turn to their own two feet to power them down a hiking trail, Trzcinski, who has cerebral [...]
Hauled off the Plane
Avraham Rabby, a retired US Foreign Service Officer, was physically removed from a Dragonair flight because he declined to take a window seat rather than an aisle seat. This is not your usual airplane seat dispute; according to Dragonair, blind passengers must sit in window seats.
Beneblog has an account of the incident, complete with photos: [...]
Longmont Recreational Center
I’ve had good experiences at the Longmont Recreational Center. It’s a fairly new facility. It was disappointing that the city chose deliberately not to build a pool that could be used by the high school and club swim teams (we have a real lane shortage here), but otherwise, I’ve been very pleased.
Last week the Rec [...]
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