Welcome to the exciting website of Tony Giles – blind world traveller and writer.
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My Books
I have written and published three eBooks about my world adventures.
My eBooks are travel biographies of the observations and experiences of a totally blind and partially deaf man as he travels independently around the world having exciting adventures. The most recent volume, Seeing a Slice of Southern Africa My Way, published 31 December 2020, is a journey of continued self-discovery as I plot my way from multi-cultural South Africa with its complex society, to Malawi, with its picturesque and peaceful nature. This third book takes the reader through parts of Southern Africa, and offers a brief glimpse into a little of Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
News
Hungary (14th September 2017)
Tony now in Esztergom, northern Hungary with his partner, Tatiana.Update (21st July 2017)
Tony has spent the last month travelling around various parts of England with Tatiana.
Blog post / Experiences in Japan (30th May 2017)
My girlfriend, Tatiana, and I recently spent a month travelling around some of Japan – mid April-mid May. A fascinating, but often challenging country with a kind, gentle, mostly helpful people.
Unfortunately, for us, we struggled to understand large parts of Japanese culture and hospitality due to a combination of a language barrier (there is little English spoken on the streets) and the lack of social interaction between disabled and non-disabled Japanese people.
Read more →Updated iBooks/iTunes links (23rd May 2017)
A reminder that both Tony’s books are available from Apple iBooks.
Seeing the World My Way
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/gb/book/seeing-the-world-my-way/id1189073353?mt=11
Seeing the Americas My Way
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/gb/book/seeing-the-americas-my-way/id1155800966?mt=11
Now in Sendai. (24th April 2017)
Tony and Tatiana are now in Sendai, Tohoku region, north-east Honshu, main island of Japan.
Country 122 (19th April 2017)
Tony is now in Tokyo, Japan with Tatiana – Tony’s 122nd country!
Blog post / Now in Senegal (10th April 2017)
Tony is now in Senegal and almost at the end of his two month trip across West Africa. After spending a few days in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, he headed south west spending a couple of relaxing days in Bobo before heading to Banfora where he visited a waterfall, walked in mountain foothills and climbed inside a large baobab tree.
A long bus ride took him to Bouake, the central point of Cote D’Ivoire –
Read more →Blog post / Update from Burkina Faso (31st March 2017)
After posting my last blog about Ghana I have been rather busy. Sitting on crocodiles and visiting yet another slave camp in Paga on the Ghana-Burkina Faso border and also traditional villages with interesting carved houses. After leaving Ghana I made a simple border crossing into quiet peaceful Burkina Faso, country 119. With help I travelled some 20 km to the small uninteresting town of Po. Two kind people actually gave me a free motorbike ride from the border to the town.
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