Finally a question that’s right up my ally! I love travelling it’s one of my only hobbies! Pandemic times aside, I usually travel 4 or 5 times a year.

To be fair I’ve mostly travelled with my dad (equally as passionate as I am and slightly less blind than me but still hella blind - it’s genetic). For context I’m 20F and legally blind, I use a white cane to get around.

We’ve travelled to bunch of places together and then we sometimes do activities together and sometimes we part ways to do the shit we wanna do. So I’ve been alone in a bunch of different places and environment. I went to Japan (stayed for a month, went to Tokyo, Kyoto, Hakone, Hiroshima, Okinawa and then back to Tokyo), went to the US (in New York City and its suburbs, Miami, and New Orleans - I was going to visit the west coast for a month this summer but welp that did NOT happen), bunch of places in Europe (I was born and raised in Paris so it was always quite easy and cheap to travel out to Europe), and I’ve been to Israel and the area around it a bunch of times to visit family and I always like to visit new things there and go on hikes. I’ve hiked in the desert aswell as in the north of israel, in Jordan and Lebanon.

Also since I’m from France I visited bunch of places all over the country too. My favourite places to go are the Alps to ski or hike and the south-east for the Mediterranean sea.

And special mention to the fact I just moved to London on my own! The only other place I’ve been in the UK is Brighton.

My experience has always been fine because I’ve never been to places that were THAT limited on public transportation or railroad services. I’ve never been to east asia or india for exemple although I would have liked to. I try to stay close to cities and more or less touristy areas because that feels like a safety net. I feel like as a legally blind 20F, I’m not ready to go on big boy unknown adventures yet. But I do really like discovering new places, it really helps my naviguations skills anyway and at the end of the day there’s not really that much difference between Big City A and Big City B and the hikes I go to are often very clearly laid out and I’m rarely alone on the path, there are usually other tourists there. So it doesn’t feel particularly unsafe, to me at least.

I would definitely recommend it to anyone it appeals to. Travelling is not for everyone, but if you feel like it’s something you’d like to do, don’t let your blindness stop you from doing it!!!

I have travelled from London to Los Angeles and New York on my own for fun lots of times but it depends on the situation. In that situation I got myself from home to the airport but was expecting to be met the other end, and even that can be an interesting all day experience if you have to change planes anywhere. I've never been abandoned in an airport but only because I called people to remind them I exist.

I've also travelled from London to Tokyo, door to door from home to hotel room, so it can be done. It took an extreme amount of organisation and planning and I have to say I wouldn't do that for fun, at least not without a serious amount of persuasion. I would probably only do that because in Japan if someone says they're going to meet you at a time and place they will be there, they are reliable in a way people in the west sometimes aren't.

You can do it, but you have to be very aware of the circumstances and situations you might encounter and do a lot of preparation and organisation. Personally for me, solo long haul travel is one of those things that is borderline more stress than it's worth and it reminds me of my limitations in a way I don't love, but I will do it if pushed.

Where were you thinking of going?

This interests me.

There was an 'Ask Me Anything' (A M A) recently where a blind woman from the UK answered questions about traveling alone to different countries, using a cane.


I have some sight, so if you would like me to find a link the that I don't mind doing it, it would be easier than you trying to find it if you are completely blind, probably