Visiting France with a Guide Dog for the Blind, Episode 55
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2015
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Today on Join Us in France we take a side trip into the wonderful world of guide dogs for the blind with Richard Wadwell, an Englishman and guide dog owner and who comes to France many times each year with his guide dog Ralph. Richard talks about what it's like having a guide dog and shares wonderful tips on visiting France with or without a guide dog, in particular the Limoges area and Aix-en-Provence. And if you're like me and you have great admiration for guide dogs and the work they do, this conversation will give you a glimpse into this amazing world.
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| 0:00.0 | And the the This is join us in France, |
| 0:36.2 | This is join us in France episode 55. Hello, I'm Annie and today I have the pleasure to bring you an interview with Richard Wadwell |
| 0:42.4 | An Englishman who comes to France frequently |
| 0:46.3 | and who I met online because of his guide dog Ralph. I think I may have mentioned on the show before that I am raising a puppy for the |
| 0:56.4 | guide dog school in Toulouse. The puppy, Igor, is now 15 months old in training and doing really well. |
| 1:05.0 | He spends his weekdays at the school now |
| 1:07.8 | and I just take him home for the weekend. |
| 1:09.8 | If all goes well, he'll be able to start guiding a blind person later this year in 2015. |
| 1:16.5 | I've always wanted to raise a future guide dog for the blind and now that I've done it, I know that I want to do it again. |
| 1:25.0 | Anyway I created a Twitter account for Igor the future Guidedog. |
| 1:29.0 | He's at Eleve Schengid on Twitter. |
| 1:32.0 | It means Guide dog and training. |
| 1:34.4 | And as you do on Twitter, I looked for other guide dogs. |
| 1:38.9 | Well, Richard's guide dog is also on Twitter. He is at Ralph Guide Dog. And it turns out he has a wonderful sense of humor. He makes me smile every day. And one Ralph the dog said he's coming to France again |
| 1:56.3 | So I said why are you coming to France and he told me and he's about to tell you too. Richard is a tech savvy sight impaired man who it |
| 2:06.6 | turns out also has a great sense of humor and I think he got it from Ralph the Dog. |
| 2:13.0 | He knows a lot about getting around in France. |
| 2:16.0 | He's going to share with us what it's like. |
| 2:19.0 | And I think it's great to have somebody who's willing to let us know how he how he |
| 2:25.8 | copes with a significant disability and just makes the most of it. He's really |
| 2:31.3 | inspiring and wonderful. So without further ado here's Richard |
| 2:35.2 | hello Richard how nice to talk to you today thank you very much nice to speak to you |
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