Florita’s, or Florita’s Miami Bar and Tropical Gardens to give it its full name, is a trendy bar in central Newcastle with a great vibe, good disabled access and a possible chance to do some celeb-spotting. The bar looks to emulate the hedonistic party-loving style of Miami. Everything is decked out with palm trees, splashes…
Last week Max & I went to the Independent Hotel Show at Olympia to spread the word about BBS and our community of people who want more than a Holiday Inn Express. This indeed surprised a few people as we told them the disability market for hospitality was worth £2Bn a year in the UK…
Stylish Interiors with Disabled Features is an oxymoron, usually……but I found this site that you can use to get style ideas for your home – www.houzz.com. It’s mainly US design but that shouldn’t matter as you can point your builders to this site. There are useful tips and quite detailed ‘build’ information as well. They…
The BBS Bonfire has been over a week in the making – a list of the pet peeves of many less able people. We’ve been venting our frustrations and it’s been fun, cathartic and occasionally more serious. Tonight we’re finally off the put these annoying aspects of accessibility and less able life onto our nearest…
The Warehouse Project is a bit of a wandering institution on the Manchester club scene. Having originally opened in Boddingtons Brewery before moving to Store Street car park, it reopened last September in Victoria Warehouse. In all three locations the club has attracted incredible line-ups and become one of the best big nights out in the world. After…
It was at about this time four hundred and eight years ago Guy Fawkes was allegedly putting the final touches on his big old pile of gunpowder underneath the Palace of Westminster (we say ‘allegedly’ wisely. It might be over four hundred years since he was hung drawn and quartered but you can never be…
For a week now we’ve been metaphorically piling up the things that people we know find frustrating about less able life, to toss onto our BBS Bonfire on Tuesday. So far we’ve by and large been trying to have a little bit of fun – although the issues are important to us it’s been more…
At BBS we focus more on the destinations (the venues we review) than the journey to get to them but public transport is still a real bug bear. It’s just lagging behind in terms of access and we know that a lot of our readers agree. Let the rant commence: It’s frustrating to have to…
We were writing a post about the International Disability Day and whilst researching we noticed some of the alternative, strange and funny international days – so here are some of our favourites! Talk Like A Pirate Day – 19th September Gentlemen o’ fortune, Shiver me timbers we’ve missed this one but I thought it was well…