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Flying with Disability - Resource about air travel for disabled passengers. Information includes airport accessibility, medical assistance, airline notification, discrimination and disabled travellers' rights.
Tourism For All - Umbrella organisation supporting accessibility and social inclusion in the hospitality and tourism industry. Achievements, activities and list of members.
Sandown - Coach hire for disabled, elderly and special needs groups in the North West of England.
London Dial a Ride - London Transport service for people with disabilities. Membership details, how the service works and service details.
Taxi Card - Subsidised door-to-door transport in taxis for people who have serious mobility impairment and difficulty in using public transport. How to apply and scheme details.
Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee - Responsible for advising the UK Government on access for disabled people to transport and the built environment. Provides information on access to various modes of transport and details of the Committee's work.
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher Travel "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Travel The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Travel >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Travel For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Travel Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen Travel It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Travel Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm Travel Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Travel Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Travel Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais Travel "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. -- Dean Acheson "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Travel I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Travel Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain Travel That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Someday is not a day of the week. -- Anon. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist Travel Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Travel Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Travel Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore Travel Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Travel No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Travel "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Travel
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