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Reviewing adapted swimming at Barcelona’s Beaches

Posted on: August 9, 2022 Last updated on: September 3, 2022 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Travel

One of my favourite things about Barcelona is the adapted swimming beach wheelchair service. They have amphibious wheelchairs on some English beaches, but nothing this good. In Barcelona you can swim in…

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Accessible Barcelona transport – navigating in a wheelchair

Posted on: August 7, 2022 Last updated on: September 3, 2022 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Travel

I love talking about how accessible Barcelona is. I’ve spent a lot of time there one way or another. I partially lived there a number of years ago, and it’s definitely my…

Reviewing MICs Sant Jordi – the best for disabled travellers

Posted on: August 6, 2022 Last updated on: September 3, 2022 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Travel

The importance of an accessible hotel This whole series of blogs on Barcelona began with reviewing MICs Sant Jordi. Why? When I was looking for somewhere to stay in Barcelona, I knew…

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Paris while disabled: stopping for the night

Posted on: August 5, 2022 Last updated on: September 3, 2022 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Travel

I’ve written a bit about the overview of my trip – but this blog focuses on what it was like to find somewhere to spend the night in Paris while disabled. Travelling…

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Reviewing London to Barcelona by train – easy and accessible

Posted on: August 4, 2022 Last updated on: September 3, 2022 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Travel

When I go to Spain, I usually fly. However, it seems to be the summer of chaos with cancelled flights, and a series of issues with assistance for disabled passengers. Given that,…

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Paris and Barcelona – planning a trip while disabled

Posted on: August 3, 2022 Last updated on: September 3, 2022 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Travel

I was lucky enough to book a to Paris and Barcelona while disabled . This both developed and tested my knowledge about accessible travel. With everything I worked out about the trip…

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Packing tips for disabled travellers

Posted on: August 2, 2022 Last updated on: September 3, 2022 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Travel

Planning your packing for travel When packing for travel, there’s a pretty standard list of things you need. Let’s start with clothes, sponge bag, and any chargers or technology. Because I stayed…

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Travel tips for disabled travellers

Posted on: August 1, 2022 Last updated on: September 3, 2022 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Travel

This series of articles will cover a wide range of travel tips and reviews – from my overview onwards. I am writing about everything from accessible transport to packing and reviews of…

The cover to Jamie's poetry book, Shield. The image is made up of six horizontal stripes. The outside ones are white, and inside it goes yellow, pink, navy, turquoise (top to bottom). On the top white band in green it says "Jamie Hale" centrally with "Shield" in pink next to that. There is a white mask across the coloured bands. At the bottom on the white band it says "Verve Poetry Press" in pink

Shield (MacTaggart Lecture)

Posted on: September 12, 2021 Last updated on: January 18, 2023 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Arts, News, Personal, Poetry

When I’m not writing poetry, I’m also moving into writing for television – a world I’m realising just makes disabled people almost completely invisible – most of the time. The MacTaggart Lecture…

Round Table: Fisher King

Posted on: September 12, 2021 Last updated on: January 18, 2023 Written by: Jamie Hale Categorized in: Knights of the Round Table, Performance, Poetry

This is part of a sequence of five vignettes of Arthurian characters and dilemmas placed into historical contexts, written on commission from Bedtime Stories for the End of the World (link). For…