My accessible trip to the Catalan

I'm Martyn: a wheelchair using, travel loving blogger. I also co-edit Disability Horizons, an inspiring and informing online portal, run by and for our online community. Today I wanted to share with you a story of 4 crazy and adventurous days in Spain!

In June the Catalan Tourist Board invited a group of disability travel agencies to check out their accessibility for disabled tourists.

 

One of the agencies was Enable Holidays, who provide their customers with accessible hotels, adapted transfers, necessary equipment, and a great holiday - no matter what their needs are. They kindly invited me on the trip to test drive the facilities and share my thoughts back home. After receiving the invite I was excited and intrigued about what the trip would entail. After seeing the schedule, I was apprehensive how full-on it was and how lucky I was to do such activities.

 

The night before flying I drove my Motability car to a Gatwick hotel and my girlfriend and I awoke the next day for our early flight. After the usual worries of getting me and my wheelchair safely through the airport procedure, we had a great flight. We were greeted by smiling Silvia and can-do Diego in Barcelona airport, before meeting Lusia from Enable. Fully acquainted, we set off...

 

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