Archive: April 2005
1. Accessibility and Transportation
Scott at Rolling Rains wants to pick your brain on accessible travel topics. Feel free to leave a comment here, or mail your comments to Scott.
(1) How tourism can bring about greater accessibility of buildings, places of interest and transportation: What models or case studies are available that illustrate a successful harnessing of tourism revenue [...]
2. Reform, Reconstruct and Build the Accessible Tourist Sites
Scott at Rolling Rains wants to pick your brain on accessible travel topics. Feel free to leave a comment here, or mail your comments to Scott.
(1) Inclusive Destination develoment is the systematic application of Universal Design in the planning and development of tourism sites in order to make them destinations of choice for the tourists [...]
3. Accessible Information
Scott at Rolling Rains wants to pick your brain on accessible travel topics. Feel free to leave a comment here, or mail your comments to Scott.
(1) Availability of accessible information in major tourism web sites, both governmental and private: What are the criteria for defining accessibility? What is the procedure for holding each site accountable [...]
4. Human Resources in Accessible Tourism
Scott at Rolling Rains wants to pick your brain on accessible travel topics. Feel free to leave a comment here, or mail your comments to Scott.
(1) Influencing Employers to hire People with Disabilities: Good strategies? Case studies
(2) Lobbying designers, engineers, builders and policy makers to include People with
Disability in Tourism Plans
(3) How to create seamlessly [...]
5. Social Enterprises in Accessible Tourism
Scott at Rolling Rains wants to pick your brain on accessible travel topics. Feel free to leave a comment here, or mail your comments to Scott.
(1) Good practices of social enterprises in accessible tourism in participating countries/regions and lessons learnt from their experiences.
(2) How to make social enterprises in accessible tourism economically viable business as [...]
Algebra-free zone
If you think this sort of thing is amazing, you obviously have no grasp of algebra.
Unitarian Jihad
I try not to be a sheep, but sometimes it’s irresistable. My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Sister Sword of Reasoned Discussion. Get yours.
People of the United States! We are Unitarian Jihad! We can strike without warning. Pockets of reasonableness and harmony will appear as if from nowhere! Nice people will run the government again! There [...]
By Wheelchair In Iran
By Wheelchair In Iran:
Continuing through the bazaar, I felt a light hand on my shoulder. I turned around to see it was a university student dressed in a black chador from head to toe. She introduced herself, and just wanted to speak some English. She spoke somewhat haltingly, but I had no [...]
Cross-cultural patronisation
Returning to the US after a week in France really slammed home how idiotically patronising people here can be. I did get a lot of stares in France, but absolutely no comments. Wherever I went, I was treated in an completely professional, neutral manner. In the first four hours back in the States, I was [...]
Legitimate comment deletion
Apologies to Rayna, whose legitimate comment was deleted by Spam Karma. I’ve upgraded to version 1.20, which is supposed to save deleted comments in the database for undeleting if necessary.
Museums
We had three museum goals: the Musée de Moyen Age (Cluny), the Louvre, and the Musée d’Orsay.
We went to Cluny on Sunday, when the kids were still pretty jet-lagged, and admission is free, but it wasn’t too crowded. The building is 15th century, with satisfyingly crenellated walls and and interior courtyard. We strolled past [...]
Bluegrass jam
Every Tuesday, 11:30 - 1:00. Better than exercise.
Churches
The kids and I dug into some guidebooks and made lists of what we wanted to see. They put down Notre Dame (easy, since we were staying only blocks away) and Sacré Cœur (the daughter is a big Amelie fan and wanted to see Montmartre). I added Sainte Chapelle.
Notre Dame
My theory of jet lag is [...]
Gate check
Variations in gate-check policies I encountered on the trip; all flights were on Northwest/KLM.
DEN-DTW - no problem; got a gate check tag at the gate, gate checked the chair, it was returned to me at the plane in Detroit.
DTW-CDG - same. The arrival gate was a bus gate; the purser arranged a lift off the [...]
Food
(Why am I up at 4:30 am? Must be jetlag.)
Food fun in Paris: good eats all around. We mostly ate in cafés or at the apartment. For several days we bought two baguettes every morning from one of the three or four boulangeries on the island. The low cost of bread (0€60 for a baguette) [...]
And we’re back!
Squeaked back into Denver last night just before the big snowstorm.
We had a wonderful time. The weather was very cooperative (the forecast had been for rain the entire week, and it held off till late Wednesday), the apartment was super and very centrally located, the kids were great.
We used disposable cameras to take pictures, so [...]
We’re off
Off to la belle France. Back April 10th, with pictures (I hope). Barring the odd Internet café, I’ll be technologically out of touch till then. Don’t have too much fun without me.
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