What To See On the 14th of March the V&A will be opening their Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Exhibition. It will be displaying some of his earliest work as well as his incomplete A/W 2010 collection. It might be a good idea to take Mum on Mother’s Day, that’s if you can get tickets in time,…
The 1st of March was International Wheelchair Day and to celebrate this we put together a bar crawl around the City of London. Somewhere where access can be difficult due to the number of old/ listed buildings and cobbled streets. You can see Part 1 here, where we met a variety of accessible lifts, proving any building…
The 1st of March was International Wheelchair Day and to celebrate we put together a bar crawl around the City of London. Somewhere where access can be difficult due to the number of old/ listed buildings and cobbled streets. We unleashed the readers and the people who work for us on London! And what fun we…
I’ve been to two pub/restaurants recently that according to their staff were accessible. They were, to a certain extent but there’s always something they omit to tell you and it’s not because they’re forgetful it’s just that unless you’ve ‘walked a mile in my shoes’ (not a good metaphor when you’re in a wheelchair) you’re…
There have been many musicians past and present who have varying degrees of disability, for example Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles were both visually impaired and they didn’t let their disabilities stop them, they still travelled the world and sang to huge crowds of people – Stevie Wonder is now 64 and he’s still touring and making…
The Musical Lieutenant and her brother chose The Lockhart as the ‘new place’ I should visit especially as it had ‘fried chicken’. Located in Seymour Place just behind Marble Arch, It’s American in flavour which seems to be ‘a la mode’ as burger/chicken joints are popping up all over the place. I have no problem…
The Relative Lieutenant has been in Taiwan recently and has been reporting to us with details on the accessibility at some cool Kaohsiung restaurants. We’ve heard before that the general access in Taiwan’s second city puts London and the rest of the UK to shame, so we’re always interested to hear more: “Old New restaurant…
The wheelchairs are coming out in force for as we go London crawling – will the city’s bars know what’s hit them? To celebrate International Wheelchair Day, on the 3rd of March, we’re going to be checking out some of the City’s coolest bars that say they’re accessible and we want to invite you all…
In honour of Chinese New Year, we wanted to suggest one great Chinese restaurant to experience during the year of the goat. However, we’ve heard there’s some confusion over whether it actually is the year of the goat or is in fact the year of the sheep. Or the ram. So instead here are three…