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
Panama blog post (16th March 2016)
Second blog post from Tony’s trip around Central America – Panama.Blog post / Panama (16th March 2016)
So, where did I leave you? Ah yes, Aruba. End of February and I sunny myself in the ABC Islands in the good old Caribbean! I spent three nights in hot sunny Aruba, the most touristy of the three islas. I stayed with an interesting and slightly crazy guy from Brazil, met him on the internet through CouchSurfing.com. On my first night with him, he took me to a music festival, which took place on the beach – Eagle Beach to be precise – on the island’s north-west side.
Read more →ABC Islands blog post (29th February 2016)
Tony has just sent this blog post – ABC Islands
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.