Welcome to the exciting website of Tony Giles – blind world traveller and writer.
Read more about Tony.
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
Tony’s latest info (10th February 2018)
Tony is now in Lausanne, Switzerland, preparing to give a talk at the closing ceremony of a student-led event about tourism and travel. Tony was also recently on the Chrissie B Show: a tv programme on Sky, channel 203 about tackling mental health issue and positive action regarding this subject. Tony’s story is a positive illustration of what can be overcome and achieved.BBC Travel Show reminder (21st January 2018)
A reminder that the second part of Tony’s BBC Travel Show documentary is still available, It features Tony exploring Bethlehem.
It is available to watch (UK only) at this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jl4k0
The international link is http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05tyfcx
It is also being broadcast worldwide on BBC World News and in the UK on the BBC News Channel. For broadcast times, see the links below:
BBC News Channel
BBC World News
Sunday Times article (11th January 2018)
Article about Tony published in the Sunday Times (7th January). Here’s the link:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-it-feels-to-be-blind-and-roam-the-planet-zkx7t2z37. The article is behind a paywall, although a limited number of articles can be read for free if you register.
ILTV interview (11th January 2018)
Watch Tony’s recent interview with Israel based English Language news channel ILTV (9th January 2018).
Update (8th January 2018)
Tony now in Greece.
iROZHLAS.cz article (28th December 2017)
Another Czech language article about Tony, this one published on the iROZHLAS.cz site.
Counting Down Countries – GlobalGaz podcast (22nd December 2017)
Tony was interviewed for the GlobalGaz travel podcast. Listen at this link.
Czech article (20th December 2017)
An article about Tony recently appeared on the Czech news site Novinky.cz. Read the article here (Czech language).