What’s New
15th May 2013
News updated on the front page. Plus, a new interview with Tony recorded for the Eyes on Success radio programme.
24th April 2013
More photos from Venezuela – Canaima National Park.
15th April 2013
New photo gallery: York and Hartlepool, England, April 2013.
12th April 2013
New photo gallery: Guyana, November 2012.
3rd April 2013
New video added to the front page.
28th March 2013
New photo gallery: French Guiana, November 2012.
22nd March 2013
New photo gallery: Suriname, November 2012.
27th February 2013
New videos added: Venezuela and Colombia, November-December 2012.
25th February 2013
Updated Countries, Islands and Principalities Visited, European Countries Visited and Places and Islands Visited in Greece.
20th February 2013
New photo gallery: Vienna, Austria (September 2012).
11th February 2013
New blog post added. Plus a set of photos from Tony and Tatiana’s travels in Slovenia last September.
29th January 2013
Photos galleries added for Tony’s travels in Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania in September 2012.
21st January 2013
Details of the ‘On the Road – Off the Page’ event added to the front page.
8th January 2013
- New page added: Countries Visited in South America.
- New link added: Hostel Santander Aleman, Colombia.
- News updated on the front page.
28th December 2012
The last blog post from Tony’s trip around South America has been added. Also, the Countries Visited page has been updated.
14th December 2012
News updated on the front page.
10th December 2012
More photos from Venezuela and Colombia: view the gallery here. Includes paragliding, bungee jumping and mud bathing!
3rd December 2012
Read Tony’s latest blog here. More adventures! Paragliding in Merida, Venezuela and then bungee jumping in San Gil, Colombia.
28th November 2012
New blog post about Tony’s travels in Guyana and Venezuela.
26th November 2012
New photos: Canaima National Park, Venezuela, November 2012 – includes Angel Falls, the world’s highest waterfall.
20th November 2012
New photos: Annai Village, Guyana, November 2012.
14th November 2012
News from Tony in Georgetown, Guyana (front page).
23rd October 2012
Bungee jump from the Transporter bridge, Middlesbrough: photos and video.
3rd October 2012
New photos: Italy and Greece, April-May 2012.
29th September 2012
Countries, Islands and Principalities Visited and European Countries Visited pages updated.
11th September 2012
New photos: Hartlepool, north-east England, June 2012
24th August 2012
New video of Tony on local TV news in Zurich, Switzerland. View it on the videos page.
21st August 2012
Countries Visited updated.
3rd August 2012
New photos: Mauritania, Senegal & The Gambia, February-March 2012. More photos from Senegal, Mali and Guinea coming soon.
1st August 2012
New photos: Devon, June-July 2012.
27th July 2012
New photos: England and Wales, June-July 2011.
12th July 2012
Countries Visited page updated.
8th July 2012
Photos from Tony’s trip to Morocco and Western Sahara added. More photos from Tony’s travels in West Africa coming soon.
1st June 2012
Added an interview Tony has done for BCFM, an independent community radio station based in Bristol. Listen on the Audio Interviews page.
30th May 2012
New set of photos: Punta Arenas & Santiago, Chile, February 2011.
The European Countries Visited page has been updated.
28th May 2012
Two new radio interviews:
- Chris Norton interviewed Tony last Thursday on The Wild Show, Phonic FM, Exeter.
- This morning Tony was interviewed by John Darvall on BBC Radio Bristol.
Listen to both of these on the Audio Interviews page.
24th May 2012
Six new videos from Tony’s visit to West Africa earlier this year. Watch them on the video page.
Also, added a set of photos taken in Greece between May and July last year. They include: Salamis Island, the island of Paros and the archaeological remains at Mycenae.
22nd May 2012
An interesting new interview Tony recorded for Talk Radio Europe last Friday. Listen to it on the Audio Interviews page.
21st May 2012
Countries Visited page updated.
15th May 2012
Updated the front page with news of an exciting Amazon special offer: A free Kindle copy of Tony’s book ‘Seeing the World My Way’ available from the 20th to 21st of May on Amazon.
4th May 2012
Radio interview with Tony featured on Deutsche Welle’s World Link programme. Listen to it on the Deutsche Welle website.
27th April 2012
Listen to a new radio interview with Tony: RFI English.
26th April 2012
Added a photo from Tony’s recent visit to Mali. Many more photos of Tony’s travels in West Africa coming soon.
12th April 2012
Photos of Tony’s visit to Malta and Gozo in January.
26th March 2012
Added a link on the articles page to Simon Fenton’s recent blog post – Tony stayed with Simon in Abene, southern Senegal .
24th March 2012
Added photos of Tony in taken Abene, southern Senegal.
1st March 2012
Lots of photos from Tony’s visit to the South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula last year.
19th January 2012
Recent photos from Padova & Lake Como, Italy, added.
4th January 2012
New interview with Tony by Justin Troupe for www.theendlessweekend.com.
Also, a better translation of the interview Tony did for Finnish publication Tuntosarvi in January 2011.
16th December 2011
More photos from Tony’s Falkland Islands trip added.
15th December 2011
Added more photos from Tony’s trip to Argentina in January of this year. The page is here.
23rd November 2011
More photos from Tony’s visit to the US in September. New photos of Indianapolis, Nashville and Washington, DC.
26th October 2011
A new set of photos from Tony’s visit to New York in September.
19th October 2011
New press release added regarding the conversion of Tony’s book into braille by the RNIB.
18th October 2011
Interview with Bristol Community Radio added to the Radio Interviews page.
10th October 2011
You can now listen to Tony’s interview on BBC Wiltshire radio from last Saturday (8th October) on the Radio Interviews page.
The Countries Visited and Places Visited in the USA pages have also been updated.
4th October 2011
A link to a new blog post about Tony has been added to the Press Articles page. Or you can go directly to the Beautifully Blind blog here.
See the News section in left column for details of forthcoming book signings and a talk at the Bristol Festival of Literature.
19th August 2011
An interview with Lonely Planet Magazine from April 2011.
On the radio interviews page a new interview with the eyes2eyes website based in Minnesota, USA. Recorded on Monday, 15th August 2011.
15th August 2011
A few photos from Lyme Regis, Dorset, 14th August 2011.
New blog interview link added to the Press Articles page.
12th August 2011
Two photo galleries added: Rome, Italy, July 2011 and Sailing in Tor Bay, near Brixham, Devon, August 2011.
10th August 2011
Tony’s Antarctica Cruise page added.
27th July 2011
European Countries Visited added. Places Visited in Greece updated.
More videos from Antarctica and the Falkland Islands added.
25th July 2011
A set of photos from Tony’s visit to Trabzon, Turkey in October 2010.
Countries Visited page updated.
22nd July 2011
Photos from Bolivia and Peru added. More still to come.
More videos from Antarctica.
16th July 2011
Radio interview with Janet Kipling on BBC Radio Devon added.
12th July 2011
Six new videos added from Tony’s trip to Antarctica and the Falkland Islands earlier this year.
Also, three new press articles from the Bristol Review of Books, Northampton University’s alumni magazine and a Finnish publication.
8th July 2011
Countries Visited page updated. Plus, a new page added: Continents of the World visited.
24th May 2011
An article from the Teignmouth Post from 15th April.
20th May 2011
Listen to Tony’s latest interview on the radio interviews page. He was interviewed by Graham Torrington on BBC Radio Bristol.
27th April 2011
Captions now added for all the Republic of Georgia and Armenia photos.
18th April 2011
Photos of the Republic of Georgia and Armenia. Tony visited during October and November 2010. The captions are incomplete, the rest will appear soon.
7th April 2011
Countries Visited page updated.
21st March 2011
Read Tony’s latest blog post from South America.
4th March 2011
New photos from Ushuaia (Argentina) and Puerto Williams (Chile). Link.
1st March 2011
Go to the radio interviews page and listen to Tony’s recent interview on Falklands Radio.
Also, read Tony’s latest blog post from South America.
21st February 2011
Tony has sent a few photos from the Falkland Islands.
18th February 2011
New article from the Bristol Evening Post. Link.
15th February 2011
Lots of pictures from Tony and Tatiana’s trip to Corfu in September 2010.
14th February 2011
Added a few more photos from Tony’s expedition to Antarctica. Link.
7th February 2011
Photos of Tony’s expedition to Antarctica added. Plus, read his blog post about it here.
18th January 2011
Tony’s interview on In Touch (BBC Radio 4) is now available on the Radio interviews page.
17th January 2011
Added an English translation of the recent article published in Frankfurter Rundschau.
You can now buy Seeing the World My Way as an e-book from www.bristolebooks.co.uk. It will be available on Amazon later this month.
15th January 2011
You can listen to Tony’s interview on BBC Radio Bristol’s Saturday Surgery on the Radio interviews page.
Plus, Tony’s appearance on ITV West Country Tonight can now be viewed on the Video page.
12th January 2011
New press interviews added.
- “Como sou cego no bungee jumping não via o precipício” (Sabado magazine, Lisbon, 30th November 2010, Portuguese language, English translation coming soon)
- When the eyes do not see, but the heart feels (‘O Dia’ news magazine, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2010)
- Globetrotter Tony makes light of his disabilities (Herald Express, 19th October 2010)
6th January 2011
Tony’s planning a trip to Antarctica and is looking for a companion. Read his blog post here.
Two recent press articles:
- “Beulen sind Berufsrisiko” (German language article from Frankfurter Rundschau, English translation coming soon, 29th December 2010)
- The Blind Man of the World (Bristol Evening Post, 29th December 2010)
Plus, a new video featuring Tony from lonelyplanet.com. The 76-Second Travel Show: “Sound Challenge”.