News (personal) – Tony Giles, Blind Author and World Traveller

Videos in Iraq

Tony is listening to the sound of these ancient waterwheels in the city of Hit/Heet in Western Iraq. Traditional Iraqi waterwheels (Na’ouras) are large wooden structures, some up to 12 meters in diameter, historically used to lift water from rivers like the Euphrates for irrigation of farmland. These iconic wheels, once a common sight and sound in places like Hit in the Anbar province, largely disappeared by the mid-1970s with the introduction of electric pumps.

Tony and Tatiana riding the unique Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway

Tony and Tatiana, his blind Greek partner, are riding the unique Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway on a cool, damp and breezy February day in North Devon, southwest England. This cliff railway, powered by water, is one of only three railways of this type left in the world. Whilst many have been converted to electric power, the Lyndon-Lynmouth cliff Railway still operates by using water power and gravity to move its two coaches between the villages.

Another InnoSearch Message

Hi dear friends and followers :). Some good and interesting news for those of you who like to travel and are blind-visually impaired.
InnoSearch, the US website company that uses AI to help visually impaired people shop more easily online, have officially launched flights! You can take a look at
https://www.innosearch.ai/flights.
It should be now easier to search and compare flight prices over several sites. Go on,

Another Trip Update

Tony is now in Guinea-Bissau. He's actually on the island of Bubaque, the main island of the Bijagos Archipelago, off Bissau's coast.

Iron Ore Train, Mauritania!

Tony has just return to Nouakchott, Mauritania's dusty capital, after riding the famous Iron Ore train, reputed to be the longest in the world!

18 hours sitting and lying on uncomfortable iron ore! An experience never to be forgotten.

Tony did it with a group of amazing travellers, but he was the only blind person, perhaps the first blind individual to ride the train?!