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Servaas is a Dutchman, raised in the UK and living in Belgium, who has more than one story to tell, and even more so when it comes to travel. 

Meet Servaas, also known as Faas Kramer (his nom de plume): a serious businessman and a seasoned business traveller, a fun wheelchair basketball coach (and paralympic champion) for the Leuven Bears on Wheels, a creative and ruthless murderer of wheelchair users (in his books only!) who is currently writing his 4th thriller novel. Spoiler alert: there is a lot of sex and murder and wheelchairs - and a lot of suspence.

Servaas talks to us about 1000 things in this interview: funny stories and practical tips, prosthetic leg pranks and useful advice on how to navigate air travel - art of which he is a pro-, wheelchair basketball, travelling for work as a wheelchair user, and his books, that you will definitively want to read after this interview.

Want to know more about Servaas/Faas?

You can find his books on Amazon, but first visit his website at https://faaskramer.wordpress.com/ 

Servaas has also an activity as consultant on disability and worklife: https://infusionweb.wordpress.com/ 

Sara-Louise is an entrepreneur, a backpacker, a hostels lover and the protector saint of brave but sometimes struggling travellers. She is the founder of Wired Differently, a company that provides and creates services and products for neurodivergent people. Having been diagnosed with autism as an adult, she has put together her wide professional experience and her personal love for travel, and has been focusing on how to provide support to those who, like herself, experience problems while planning a trip, or during their travels.

We talk about her travel stories and her projects, and the story behind her new entrepreneurial venture.

Want to know more? Check out Sara-Louise's website here: wireddifferently.co.uk

Find her on Linkedin: Sara-louise-ackrill

Update: since the recording of the interview Sara-Louise has changed role in the Kimmel Foundation, and she is now collaborating in a contracting role.

Credits

The music in this episode is played by Francesco Aprile (opening titles) and Pieter Ghijsels (closing titiles)

Sound editing of the podcast by Aman Dembla

This episode is offered by Destination Everywhere Accessible Travel: if you are looking for inclusive travel destinations and tours, visit www.destinationeverywhere.eu

During the episode I also talk about Tabifolk, the online community for accessible travel, check it out, create your profile and start connecting with travellers worldwide:  tabifolk.com

What can you do if you totally fall in love with a country, and you just can't get enough of it? We ask Josh Grisdale, born in Canada and now a naturalised Japanese citizen, who has been discovering every hidden corner of this beautiful country where he lives and works, and telling all about it in the Bible of accessible tourism in Japan: Accessible-Japan.com.

His website is the reference for all those wishing to visit, with detailed information and videos where he shows us places and gives all the necessary information, mainly to wheelchair users, and he has also created more recently a community for travelers of all abilities: tabifolk.com. And these are just his hobbies! He tells us about some hidden corners of Japan for an off-the-beaten track exploration, and has also some very good travel stories from other countries. Don't miss it!

If you want to follow Josh on social media you can find him here:

Ig, Twitter and Facebook: @joshgrisdale

Websites: https://www.accessible-japan.com/ and https://www.tabifolk.com/ 

The music in this episode is played by Francesco Aprile (opening titles) and Pieter Ghijsels (closing titiles)

Sound editing of the podcast by Aman Dembla

This episode is offered by Destination Everywhere Accessible Travel: if you are looking for inclusive travel destinations and tours, visit www.destinationeverywhere.eu

Meet Kamil Goungor, activist and accessible travel blogger who lives in Athens, where he started his accessible travel blog "The Trawheeler", and from where he has been travelling the world on the tightest budget possible. 

He calls himself "the budgetarian" and he is the only power chair traveller whom I know who is backpacking his way around the globe with true style: get some great tips on how to become a travel pro, just in time for when we'll be able to travel again.

If you want to follow Kamil on social media you can find him here:

Ig, Twitter and Facebook: @thetrawheeler

Website: thetrawheeler.com 

The music in this episode is played by Francesco Aprile

Sound editing of the podcast by Aman Dembla

This episode is offered by Destination Everywhere Accessible Travel: if you are looking for inclusive travel destinations and tours, visit www.destinationeverywhere.eu