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Crazy Flash XXV
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014Wheelchair Excursion Mallorca Part V
Thursday, July 19th, 2012
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In Palma Nova there is a very long promenade which is dragging on over three beaches.
Good floor plates, the wheelchair is rolling and rolling and rolling…
On two of these three beaches there is a special roofed
beach area for handicapped like me and …ehhh… babies…
There is a
beach wheelchair
on each in which you get transferred from your own wheelchair by two nice helpers from the Spanish Red Cross and pulled across the beach into the water.
I knew these special wheelchairs already from Tenerife see older blogpost, but with a water temperature of 15°C I deferred a test series of these models for an indefinite time.
If you are only allowed to use this beach area as wheelchair user when you have got a baby with you???
Translator BL
Technical Aids Test Week Lanzarote Part 3
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
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The bungalow complex Nautilus in Lanzarote
is extraordinary. I haven’t seen anything like this before. You are living there a bit like in the Frankfurtian Museum of Modern Art, I will write a particular blog about it some time.
It begins with the fact that the trails for wheelers are bare of potholes and painted in stylish swimming pool blue. The only ramp which is a bit steeper was lately defused to a
Spanish 6 Degrees – Ramp
Additionally there are rest areas set up for „tired warriors“.
The classic mediterranian flair with down falling plaster, clamping doors, blank cables, wiggly door handles, busted sockets and washbasins you miss immediately (not really).
Also the 500 g of hair in the sink will hardly be found. Thus the holiday feeling slowly starts.
44 bungalows are set up wheelchair accessible, and it is to mention that the grab handles next to the toilet are better fixed than on some stands of a rehab fair. The type of the
Raised Toilet Seat
is designed very individually and is even new to me, but it seems to be functional. Even a
Makeup Mirror
was kept in mind, which is optimally suitable for a wheeler to shave himself. Curiously it is the same type I introduced in my blog on June, 10th 2010. Seems that somebody has read my article. (see older blog post). 
In newer bungalows some floor cupboards in the kitchen were saved maybe because of a lack of money. This results in the negative effect, that you as wheelchair driving man can reach the stove and will therefore sometimes be compelled to kitchen duty during the holidays by your partner.
The approximately 32 inch flatscreen TV is secured by an alarm system and definitely too big for the hand luggage on the return flight.
In this complex anything time-tested is different. In front of every bungalow you will find two sunbeds on a little terrace, and you will find plenty of them around the pool. So you are cheated out of the sporting competition on holiday to place your black-red-gold coloured towel on a sunbed at 03:30 o’clock in the early morning before any English could do so, just to claim your territory.
For us four-wheelers there is a
Poollifter, operated by water pressure
available which firstly reminds of a bottling plant of a brewery, but with a little practice the usage is fine.
To be continued!
Translator Teo
The bungalow complex Nautilus in Lanzarote
is extraordinary. I haven’t seen anything like this before. You are living there a bit like in the Frankfurtian Museum of Modern Art, I will write a particular blog about it some time.
It begins with the fact that the trails for wheelers are bare of potholes and painted in stylish swimming pool blue. The only ramp which is a bit steeper was lately defused to a
Spanish 6 Degrees – Ramp
Additionally there are rest areas set up for „tired warriors“.
The classic mediterranian flair with down falling plaster, clamping doors, blank cables, wiggly door handles, busted sockets and washbasins you miss immediately (not really).
Also the 500 g of hair in the sink will hardly be found. Thus the holiday feeling slowly starts.
44 bungalows are set up wheelchair accessible, and it is to mention that the grab handles next to the toilet are better fixed than on some stands of a rehab fair. The type of the
Raised Toilet Seat
is designed very individually and is even new to me, but it seems to be functional. Even a
Makeup Mirror
was kept in mind, which is optimally suitable for a wheeler to shave himself. Curiously it is the same type I introduced in my blog on June, 10th 2010. Seems that somebody has read my article. (see older blog post).
In newer bungalows some floor cupboards in the kitchen were saved maybe because of a lack of money. This results in the negative effect, that you as wheelchair driving man can reach the stove and will therefore sometimes be compelled to kitchen duty during the holidays by your partner.
The approximately 32 inch flatscreen TV is secured by an alarm system and definitely too big for the hand luggage on the return flight.
In this complex anything time-tested is different. In front of every bungalow you will find two sunbeds on a little terrace, and you will find plenty of them around the pool. So you are cheated out of the sporting competition on holiday to place your black-red-gold coloured towel on a sunbed at 03:30 o’clock in the early morning before any English could do so, just to claim your territory.
For us four-wheelers there is a
Poollifter, operated by water pressure
available which firstly reminds of a bottling plant of a brewery, but with a little practice the usage is fine.
To be continued!
Translator Teo
(Deutsch) Rollifahrer-Seepferdchen
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Water, water, water…
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
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On December 17th (see older blogpost) I had my snow inauguration at the same place.
Now, 4 weeks later, my beloved snow has changed its state of aggregation from solid to liquid.
So you are thinking about for weeks how you can move through the snow in a wheelchair and have completely disregarded the swimming capabilities of these things.
Frankfurt on/in the Main
The vaults of the bank get flooded!
Good that I have an
amphibian wheelchair
Hard to believe, but I am standing with my wheelchair virtually in the river.
Translator BL
On December 17th (see older blogpost) I had my snow inauguration at the same place.
Now, 4 weeks later, my beloved snow has changed its state of aggregation from solid to liquid.
So you are thinking about for weeks how you can move through the snow in a wheelchair and have completely disregarded the swimming capabilities of these things.
Frankfurt on/in the Main
The vaults of the bank get flooded!
Good that I have an
amphibian wheelchair
Hard to believe, but I am standing with my wheelchair virtually in the river.
Translator BL
Tenerife Part V
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010Frontpage
I already mentioned the accessibility of Los Cristianos. They have equipped a special area for us wheelchair and scooter users on the beach over there.
You can drive in your wheelchair on wooden planks almost into the water.
If you really would like to go into the sea there are two wheelchair lifeguards who lift you with a hoist into a
Beach Wheelchair
and move you across the sand into the sea.
The guys have pushed me across the beach at a run. I was shocked that Spaniards can move that fast, respect.
Swimming in the sea for the first time after 3,5 years, what a feeling!
I was hardly in the water, and the big fish die-off began.
Translator BL
Swimming Pool
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010Frontpage
A visit to the swimming pool in my case turns out to be a little bit like the launch of a
Containership.
There are the most different methods to be
„watered“
Possibilities are e.g. a hydraulically swinging bench, a chair in which one is wound down to the water, or a shower chair in which one is pushed down a ramp into the wet as at a ship’s christening.
Into the sea one is pushed e.g. with a beach wheelchair.
(see older blog post).
The strangest variant reminds immediately of the good old
Chairoplane
on a fun fair. The fun begins with this
floating chair
being 10 cm higher than my cushion, and I would have had to unpack little wings to get on it on my own. Presumably for hygienic reasons the footrest was installed towards the inner side of the chair so that not everybody puts his unwashed feet on it.
If the jump on this thing was successful you swing the safety bar around. The copilot (assistant) drives you to the starting position in front of the pool, hooks you up with two belts into the hoist mounted on the ceiling, and the flight above the water may start.
Before watering put on your life vest!
Translator BL
Sport News
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Frontpage
Exercise of all kind is in spite of the paralysis extremely important. My daily morning 1 – 1,5 hours of
wheeler yoga in bed
are showing the first results. Additionally a bit
leg training,
Swimming Pool,
Hand cycle,
Physio therapy (see older blogpost)
and I am ready for the next
Paralympics.
I am not sure about the discipline, any ideas?
I only get tired quickly!
Translator BL
Holidays Tenerife III
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Frontpage
Lifeguards help you into the sea with these beach wheelchairs at the “handicapped beach” for free.
