February 2023 Newsletter
4 ways to bring fun to your trip, accessible Jersey, universal design 😊 our newsletter best bits - with travel tips, inspiration and so much more. All you need to plan your next supported holiday or travel with the UK's number 1 company for all things care and accessible tourism.
Highlights:
- February date for your diary
- Beginners guide to sustainable travel
- 14 Museum openings worldwide 2023
- Visit Britain hosting to boost local economy
- Travel Tip: Our community shares...
- Travel News
- Our Recommendations: shows, blogs and more
- Destination of the Month: Jersey
- Where will you go? Our Popular Holidays
- Altogether Travel News
- Accessibility Feature: Learn to Enable Digital for Everyone
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February date for your diary
Random Acts of Kindness Day – Fri 17 Feb
The potential impact of kindness is huge 😊 Click here to check it out and for ways of how to #MakeKindnesstheNorm.
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Sustainable Travel
A beginners guide to sustainable travel in 2023 click here from National Geographic. Some great choices for a green break include the colourful cities of Bristol, Zurich and Copenhagen.
Museums 2023
Top 14 museum openings worldwide for 2023, including Manchester, Edinburgh and London click here to find out more. With an immersive digital art gallery in Japan and one of the world's largest museums in Egypt.
Visit Britain
Visit Britain hosting over 120 international travel trade representatives, set to boost the local economy through tourism click here to read on.
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Travel Tip - 4 ways to bring fun to your trip
When you’re exploring a new destination, try 4 ways for choosing free things to do ‘at random’ 😊
1. If you have a few ideas these can be on small pieces of
paper and folded to draw out of a hat - or the hotel room’s coffee mug,
depending on what you have with you.
2. You could also have ‘indoor ideas’ on different coloured
paper when a rainy day is expected.
3. Or number a list and online search ‘automatic number
generator’ with 1 to 18 for example, and the button will select a number for
you.
4. Even with a menu you can close your eyes and point to a
meal at random when sitting down to eat. If the menu items are numbered, the
online number generator can work great for this too.
This can be a fun way to bring the feeling of an adventure to your trip, while still including things you like.
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Travel News
North York Moors accessibility project – to make the national park easier to explore with adapted bikes and ‘trampers’ (electric all-terrain mobility scooters) click here to read more from The Guardian.
New flight routes from the UK for 2023 – click here to check out some of the most exciting new routes from UK airports.
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Our Reccommendations
Series 3 of Race Across The World is due to be released in
2023, now reportedly as early as March. Race Across The World features pairs of
contestants racing from a start line in one part of the world to a finish line
thousands of miles away – all without flights or mobile phones.
There isn’t an advert out yet but you can spot a clip click here in the new for 2023 on iPlayer. To check out more and previous episodes click here to catch up.
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Destination of the month: Jersey
The island of Jersey is known as ‘Curiously Brit(ish)’ as a place that’s familiar, with a delightfully continental twist. With local food to savour, wide open natural spaces to explore, discover lots of reasons to fall in love with the island break. Just nine miles by five, Jersey’s size makes it easy to fit lots into a holiday. For top attractions and activities click here to check out the Accessible Jersey Guide.
BeachAbility offers manual ‘ballooned wheel’ chairs for use on the beach and other rough terrain, at no cost (donations welcome) and can be booked for up to 3 hours. 6 Jersey locations in St. Helier, St. Ouen's Bay, St. Brelade’s Bay, Gorey, St. Clement, and 2 in St. Aubin's Bay.
To get your Jersey trip sorted click here or let us know any holiday ideas.
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Where will you go?
What makes Our Customers Top 10 Destinations 2022 so
popular? This month we take a look at Manchester – the only UK city to feature
in Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2023 list. Known throughout the world as the
birthplace of the industrial revolution, Manchester has a proud history in
science, politics, music, arts and sport.
Things to do include – National Football Museum, Coronation Street Tour, shows, concerts, stadium and sightseeing bus tours. Also, The Trafford Centre is a world-renowned shopping and leisure hub where you'll always find high street favourites, delicious food and exciting leisure all under one spectacular roof. Just 30 minutes from Manchester is Bury Transport Museum, plus Chester Zoo is a 1 hour drive away.
Fancy a trip to Manchester? Click here or let us know about different places you have in mind. To check out our other top destinations click here for highlights and more on our Blog.
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Altogether Travel News
As chosen by our customers, this year’s Born Free animal
adoption is for Elsa's Pride. Where it all began for Born Free, this lion pride
still resides in Meru National Park today. This adoption will help to monitor
and protect these wild lions.
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Accessibility Feature - Learn to Enable Digital for Everyone
AbilityNet highlights new research for digital accessibility click here for more with Helen Wilson. By finding ways to improve how things are developed for universal design to be inclusive for all, this can produce a more accessible society that could benefit everyone.
To follow progress can check out the Learn to Enable Digital for Everyone website click here – the ‘Did you know’ page shows how everyday things now were originally designed or developed because of disabilities click here to find out more.
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Take care,
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