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I hadn’t heard of the citizenM brand until I met a lovely lady at The World Travel Market who was representing citizenM, having travelled over from their headquarters in The Netherlands.  Following our meeting, I explored the citizenM website and it struck me how different the brand is, in how quirky and individual their hotels are. You’ll find 4 citizenM hotels within London, one in Glasgow and more in other major cities outside the UK. There are 5 citizenM hotels in Paris, as well as hotels in Rome, Zurich, New York, Kuala Lumpur and many more across the globe! They’ve certainly grown since opening their first hotel at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam in 2008!   We decided to give the citizenM Tower of London a try on a chilly, mid-January weekend. The hotel is in a great location, as you guessed it, right by the Tower of London, of which you can get a great view of, from the hotel’s cool rooftop bar! The following is what we discovered from our visit from an wheelchair access po...

North Meadow Cottage exterior North Meadow Cottage is located on the site of the historic watermill in Mendham, situated right on the Norfolk / Suffolk border. Having spotted the cottage a couple of years ago on the Accessible Holiday Escapes website, Mr S had been keeping an eye on availability and was keen to book to visit. What stood out to us both when looking at Mendham Mill's website, was that it looked as though accessibility had really been thought through. We were reassured of this by being able to ‘walk through’ the cottage using the wonderful virtual tour feature. Alongside this, the website offered detailed information of door widths and other accessible features which reassured us further. Accessibility information is fundamental in our decision making when it comes to booking something for our family. We have to be confident that Miss S will be able to access everything and that we can all have a comfortable and enjoyable stay without the stresses of things not quite ...

  Sheep and pig visit our tent! Camping is something we had considered over the years and we had checked out a few camping shops along the way, to see how camping may work with Miss S as a wheelchair user. It isn't an absolutely impossible task to try traditional camping but there are so many considerations and practicalities that ultimately, each time we’ve discussed it, looked in to it a little more, we’ve not gone any further along. For instance, it would need to be the right tent, one Miss S could physically get in to in her chair, one big enough to stand up in so we can transfer her and have enough space for Miss S get around and that’s before we start to think about what she’d sleep on, how we can get her comfortable enough, warm enough, etc. With so many considerations we just didn’t get round to looking at traditional camping any further.  We first came across Canvas and Campfires after reading about the visit fellow blogger Simply Emma had, around the time Canvas and ...