Paris Olympics 2024! Sports! Sports! Sports!
I attended one day of the Paris Olympics with my friend from the Netherlands, Chloé. We spent the weekend in Paris for the Rugby event, then drove back to the Netherlands where I spent the week exploring different cities and working from various coffee shops. It was such a cool experience to attend an Olympic event and see different cities and villages in the Netherlands and Belgium, but traveling like this does not come without its challenges and considerations.
Read on for a few of my top accessible travel tips.
Maddi’s Accessible Travel Tips:
1. Plan everything out. Anytime before I travel alone, I like to familiarize myself as much as I can with where I'll be going. Sometimes this means calling the hotels ahead of time to make sure they have accessible rooms, or pulling up a map to gauge the distance between locations I will be visiting and since I can't drive, figuring out how I will be traveling between them.
2. Stay flexible and constantly adapt to the situation.
Even given all the planning ahead of time, the only constant with travel for me is that the plans will inevitably stray from the original intended plan. And while that can make things more stressful, at the same time it can also make them more fun. I find that the more I stay open minded to new and unexpected experiences, the more exciting my adventure becomes.
3. Keep your most valuable/necessary items handy and zipped shut.
When I am traveling, I carry with me a purse large enough to fit my phone, wallet, passport, sunglasses, phone charger, headphones, and keys. If I have more things, I will even wear a backpack so I can also fit my work laptop and charger. I like having all my belongings zipped closed and on me securely, so I know where they are at all times.
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