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
Blog post / ABC Islands (29th February 2016)
I am currently in the Caribbean, travelling the ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao. After one night in Amsterdam, Holland on 21st February 2016, I flew to Curacao, one of the islands of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and my trip began. An interesting historical island with friendly people. I stayed with a lovely German guy named Thomas via couch surfing and he helped me take a minibus into the main town and showed me to the historical and cultural museum, Read more →Country 107 (24th February 2016)
Tony is now in Curacao, a small island in the southern Caribbean, sweating in the heat and soaking up the sun. This is country 107.
EDIT: photos added – https://www.tonythetraveller.com/photo-gallery/curacao-february-2016/
New blog post: Visiting the Gulf countries (25th November 2015)
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Blog post / Visiting the Gulf countries (25th November 2015)
Tony is now in the Middle East, visiting the Gulf countries. Starting on 9th November, he headed to Kuwait and spent six days exploring this small Gulf state. Tony stayed with a lovely kind Canadian lady for three days before couchsurfing with a nice guy from the US.
Although Kuwait does have public buses, it is much easier and effective to take taxis as they are reasonably inexpensive. Tony attempted to visit the Grand Mosque,
Read more →Updates (8th November 2015)
Tony has now visited 102 countries.
He was recently in the Faroe Islands (August), Belarus (October) and Spain (November).
Tony will be in the Middle East for the next few weeks travelling.
Country 100 (11th May 2015)
Tony is now in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, country 100.
New blog post: Ambon, Timor and Flores (1st May 2015)
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Blog post / Ambon, Timor and Flores (1st May 2015)
A lot has happened since Tony’s last update in Ternate, north Maluku. He headed to Ambon, a small island in the central Maluku group famous for the wars over spices. Tony was hosted by a lovely large family, and also met two nice local girls, together they visited Amsterdam Fort on a hill a two hour bus ride from town. It rained as seems to be the story of this trip and the group were nearly stranded as all the buses and minibuses had apparently returned to the capital town,
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