254 Mel's Travel Guide Episode 05: Lone Versus Group Travel

Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 12:25 a.m.

b"On this week\\u2019s Mel's Travel Guide, Mel will be talking about her experiences on her first two holidays without her parents. Firstly, she will talk about and reflect upon her experiences traveling to Japan with a group of 7 other blind and vision impaired tennis players and their volunteer support crew. She will discuss the assistance given, as well as offering tips and tricks to help other blind travelers in a group, as well as suggestions for blind and vision impaired people to be able to develop their own skills so they can feel more independent in these group tour settings. After this Mel will compare this experience with a trip, she took on her own 2 months later with just her Guide Dog, Darcy for company across Australia. She will share experiences she had which both worked and which did not, including what happens when you follow a GPS and accidentally end up taking a walking track which is meant to represent training for walking the Kokoda trail on a 35\\xb0 Celsius (95\\xb0 Fahrenheit) day.\\n\\nJoin Mel's Blind Life as she talks about her experiences as a worldwide traveler, and offers tips and guides for booking trips on various conveyances, from airlines to train travel, cruise ships and bus travel, Mel covers it all on Mel's Travel Guide, broadcast exclusively, every Mondays at 6:00 pm (EST), 3:00 pm (PST), 11:00 pm UTC), or Tuesdays at 9:00 am (AES{UTC+10}).\\n\\nYou Can subscribe to Mel's Blind Life YouTube channel at the following Link:\\n\\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpBrQD0KEWZSYpCk0gdLV6Q\\n\\nand follow her Facebook page at the following link:\\n\\nhttps://facebook.com/melsblindlife/?__tn__=%2Cg"