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
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.
Read more →Country 119 (15th March 2017)
Tony is now in Burkina Faso, country 119.