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Accessible travel: Seeing Europe with a broken foot and my 87-year-old aunt
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Transport companies, airlines and attractions such as the Keukenhof gardens in Amsterdam are doing more to help people with disabilities to see the world.
PHOTO: REINHOLD KRIEGER
Ming E. Wong
THE NETHERLANDS – About a week before my aunt and sister were due to join me and my husband on a trip to the Netherlands, I fell badly over a step and broke my left foot. The orthopaedic doctor put it in a cast, and issued me crutches and a wheelchair.
We considered postponing the trip, but my folks had been looking forward to seeing the world-famous Keukenhof botanical garden, which blooms with tulips every year from March to May.
