Rob our partner at AccessAdvisr sent this review from Brighton: The Coal Shed was recommended to us by a Brightonian during a shopping trip. The fact that is was a short stroll away from our Travelodge Hotel on the seafront gave us an added reason to visit. What we weren’t told is that this place…
In July of this year I was invited to the launch of the UK’s first Accessible Strandkorb (literally a beach basket), at the German Gymnasium. This was organised both by the German National Tourist Office and the Tourism office of Lower Saxony. The weather was suitably British and a Strandkorb was needed to protect us…
Since renowned chef Simon Rogan opened his Michelin Starred, ‘clean’ cooking restaurant of L’Enclume a number of other establishments have come to our notice in Cumbria and The Lake District. So if you’re going, check these out and there’s at least one accessible hotel to try. Style and luxury have become part of this landscape and…
Two recent reviews have highlighted some award winning restaurants that appear to be great places to visit but slightly inaccessible. To be fair they are both trying to change their premises to make them more inclusive so we’ll wait and see before giving a final seal of approval. This prompted our initiative to present our…
We arranged a holiday to Menorca as it’s the most unspoilt/commercialised of the Balearic islands. We’d been to Ibiza and stayed in a very good villa, see our review of Ibiza but Menorca is far more ‘old Spain’ with many fishing villages and unspoilt beaches. We stayed in modern villa just outside of the town of…
We know BBS is sometimes too London centric but we are unapologetic in highlighting some wonderful, accessible things to do in London this summer: Cocktails With a View Less able people often consider multi-storey buildings to be the enemy but once a building reaches a certain height, as is the case here, there’s no way…
We have recently set up a partnership with Access Advisr – a Tripadvisor look a like for people with disabilities. They recommended we take a look at Indian Summer in Brighton. We previously went on a trip to Brighton which is plagued with narrow streets and a pebbled beach, none of which makes access easy. It should…
Blue Badge Style rounds up the top 10 accessible UK pub, restaurants and holidays for this Bank Holiday Monday and May half term for Disability Horizons: 10 awesome accessible pub restaurants and getaways Something For the Weekend/Week Here at BBS Towers we’re eagerly awaiting the Bank Holiday weekend so that we can escape to the…
Steve Wilkinson is based in the North East and runs a website Wheelchair Steve. Steve established International Wheelchair Day as 1st March every year. His mission is to ‘to make the world more accessible for other wheelchair users and people who have non-standard needs’ and has a been a wheelchair user for most of his life.…