Blog – Tony Giles, Blind Author and World Traveller

Sierra Leone to Liberia and Back

Hey friends and followers. I hope everyone is keeping well?
I'm now back in Freetown, Sierra Leone. I'm staying at the quaint hostel in the Aberdeen Area where I was before. It's fairly quiet as I type this latest travel update, whilst sitting on the balcony, overlooking the stone-strewn track that is meant to be some kind of road, but isn't!
I disappeared for a while, to Liberia, but also to Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary in east Sierra Leone.

Trip to Banana, Sierra Leone

Hi deer friends, fans and followers. I'm well. Still in hot Freetown. I've just returned from 2 relaxing days on Banana Island, off the Sierra Leone coast. I stayed at a lovely, if slightly expensive, guest house named Dalton. Right on a small, gritty, private beach. Almost paradise! :). The local staff are lovely, kind, helpful and went out of their way to make my stay as easy as possible :). A private room with sink,

Innosearch Message and Promotion

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,

Trip Update.

Hi everyone, hope this finds you all well and keeping warm if in the UK, Europe or North America! I'm fine, swetting my bum off in hot and humid Senegal! I'm now in Ziguinchor, the southernmost biggish, city. Hoping to get my visa tomorrow for Guinea-Bissau! It's time to visit some islands and get away from the chaos for a bit! .
I crossed the Mauritania-Senegal River border about a week ago,

Mauritania Trip Report

Mauritania is a large, mostly desert-like country in northwest Africa, that parallel's the North Atlantic coast on its western side.
It's bordered by Morocco and, unrecognised, Western Sahara to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and Senegal to the south, across the Senegal River.
The majority of Mauritania's vast land is covered by the Sahara in the north and centre, with a small area of semi-arable land in the south,