This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you are listening to episode number 183.

Ciao at all and benvenuti to Untold Italy, the travel podcast where you go to the towns and villages,

mountains and lakes, hills and coastlines of

Bella Italia. Each week your host, Katie Clark, takes you on a journey in search of magical

landscapes, history, culture, wine, gelato, and of course, a whole lot of pasta. If you're

dreaming of Italy and planning future adventures

there, you've come to the right place.

Ciao, Benvenuti friends. On this episode, I'm talking about a topic that I think is very important.

And to be honest, it's taken quite a while to find just the right person who I could chat about it with.

But I am delighted to say that I have found exactly the right person.

And today we're chatting about wheelchair accessible and general accessibility issues

when travelling in Italy. Now, if you've spent any time in our favourite country, then you may

have wondered what it would be like to get around if you weren't fully mobile. In a place where

many of us do over 20,000 steps a day, what is the experience for people who get

around in a wheelchair or who have limited mobility? To be honest, the thought of it is quite

daunting to me, but then enrolled my new friend Amy Maldonado, who is an absolute inspiration and is

here today to share her amazing tips for getting around

and having a fabulous time in Italy in a wheelchair. Amy is based in the United States, but she also

has an apartment in Florence, so she's truly living the dream in that respect and spend

lots of her time in Italy exploring on her own in her manual wheelchair.

Now, even if you're not concerned with mobility, this is a truly inspiring and eye-opening

discussion about what is possible with incredible determination and tenacity.

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