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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Chilterns Crematorium

You can be assured

Sadly I had the reason to go to Chilterns Crematorium recently.


I won't say much apart from the need to visit and the nature of the occasion is by no means an easy one, but I have to say that it's difficulty is NOT added to by having to cope with less than ideal facilities. 

They were clean and bright and for me a vertical grab rail is essential.



Wednesday, October 22, 2014

The Shard


Wow!!

Well I think this one beats it all - A loo with a view!
A friend of mine went to visit the Shard during the summer
http://www.the-shard.com/

He said to me:

68 floors up the Shard.
Not a bad view eh?Very clean, big wide door that opens both ways and plenty of room.The tour staff are also excellent the whole way through.



Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Longridge Activity Centre, Marlow, Bucks




Very impressed when we went to Marlow FM to do a radio interview at their base. Of course I needed the loo and was really  pleased to use such an large accessible loo in a activity Centre 

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I'll come again!!

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Our Jubilee Sailing Trust Adventure


Our family adventure started on the 29th June when we travelled to Southampton to board Tenacious a Tall Ship belonging to The Jubilee Sailing Trust..

My First stop however was a loo in Sainsbury at Gosport.


                  

After a quick bite to eat it was time to make our way to the port itself. Tenacious is a ship that has been built by people of mixed abilities and enables the crew also to be made up of people with mixed abilities.

http://jst.org.uk/

A quick plug:

The Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST) is a registered charity whose mission is to promote the integration of people of all physical abilities through the challenge and adventure of tall ship sailing aboard two very special ships, Lord Nelson and Tenacious.

Now to the ship herself!




           





These facilities were the ones below deck and are known as 'heads' and included a shower. In fact we were lucky as they were right opposite our bunk. There are freshwater, saltwater 'heads' and clos-o-mats. If you have never come across one of these before check out their website.

Harligen, Freisland


We arrived in Harlingen on Thursday ready for the Tall Ships Festival. On the Friday we went ashore where of course I was able to not only explore Harligen but their loos as well!

    

This was my first experience of a Dutch accessible loo. Although my picture doesn't really show it it was in a massive space. What I thought was a great idea was the emergency pull cord which went around all the walls - ideal if you fall.

Campanile - Zwolle

 
  

A large space and one that I would highly recommend - well done Campanile!! 

We were now nearing the end of our journey, one more train trip and we would arrive in Amsterdam. So what were the loos like there?

The first was at the train station. We had to get the key from the attendant and then off we went down the platform to find it! As with many of the Dutch loos, it was clean, bright and in a large space.

 

We took a canal trip and with the help of the captain, Dave and Shannon I got into the boat and safely sat down!



Before getting back on the train to Schipol airport we had a quick look round a shopping centre (it seemed rude not to)! Of course it was time to use the loo.


Airport

One last loo stop before getting on the plane. As often is the case when it is a combined baby changing room and loo it can get over run with nappies!!

 
 

Luton Airport







What a lot of loos!

THE END








Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Park and Ride High Wycombe Bucks

It's so much easier to go to the Park and Ride than fight for a parking spot in town.
The loos there are also clean and bright.



Perfect!!

Monday, June 23, 2014

Stoke Mandeville Hospital - out patients

To use my Mums expression there is not enough room to swing a cat!!
If at all possible and you can wait and do the hike use the loos in the main hospital
they are much bigger!



The photo probably doesn't show how little room there is you will just need to believe me!

Dinton Country Park / Berkshire


Although we were at activity centre which is 0.7 miles from the park we popped into the country park after having a walk round the lake.

For those with young children there is a great play area/ park there.
Check out the web site
Www.dintoncountrypark.co.uk

Anyway down to the business of why I am really here!




Good facilities in a wonderful location!

Monday, June 16, 2014

Canterbury Cathedral

A beautiful June Day spent visiting Canterbury Cathedral and within the grounds next to the gift shop are the public loos.




Sunday, June 15, 2014

Dacorum Civic Centre

This is a special post.


On the 28th May I was invited along with others from the MS Centre to the mayor making ceremony of Decorum.

The Mayor Cllr Allan Dawson has chosen the Chilterns MS Centre http://www.chilternsmscentre.org/as his chosen charity for the year. This is fantastic news for us.

I did feel however I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't seek permission from the mayors secretary (Jenny) to take some pictures of their accessible loo and published them on my blog - the answer came back as yes so here they are!





As I am sure you can imagine it was a good clean area and for me all the hand rails were in the right place.

Thank you Dacorum Civic Centre!