The winner of walkingisoverrated.com’s first ever iPod nano competition is… Jenny Smyth! For her fantastic review of Auckland’s Sylvia Park Mall. Congratulations Jenny, I’ll be in touch shortly to send out your prize! To all those that entered, thank you so much, and don’t feel too bummed – there’s a new iPod competition starting next week! Stay tuned!

Coming to a TV near you is CCS Disability Action’s new disability awareness campaign, featuring me! Check it out below, and let me know what you think!

Thanks to Jenny for this review! Sylvia Park shopping mall is situated in Mt Wellington, just off the Southern motorway, which makes it easy to get too. Entrance: Sylvia Park has many entrances which are all level access and some entrances have sliding doors. Mall: The whole mall is great to get around in, level surface and all shops have a level entry. The mall has an outside area of shops, mostly undercover too. One thing which I liked in

Thanks to Saphiya for this review! Ahh, the library. Not the funnest place to go, but sure is an educational one! The library doors open automatically onto a long ramp (which you have to try and steady yourself on, or it could be one hell of a ride), passing a small cafe where customers can sit, enjoy a coffee and read. Although not part of the library itself, the ramp did not provide a flat surface to steady a wheelchair

Thanks to Jenni for this review! Hot Mama’s has a very relaxed and easygoing atmosphere about it, with friendly staff and a good menu choice catering for different types of people, with good vegetarian choices also. This includes hot foods e.g. wedges, chips, nachos & pizza, cabinet food such as sandwiches and cakes, and they have a licenced bar to the side. It is easily accessible for everyone, having a wide door and ramp access, there is outdoor seating out

Thanks to Philip Patston for this review! New lifts popping up in corporate buildings (like the PriceWaterhouseCoopers building in downtown Auckland, which we visited today) have no floor or call buttons – you now enter the floor you wish to go to in a separate console and it tells you which lift to take (the cars are lettered). If you press the button with the Universal Access (wheelchair) Symbol, it embarrasses you by shouting the lift letter (hopeless if you

Sure, the slogan’s good, but what about this logo? (Click on the image to see a bigger version) Borrowed from Alex Woodruff’s blog, leave a comment below and let me know what you think…

Hey everyone, I’ve received a disappointing number of entries for the first iPod comp (read: none) so if you wanna win an iPod nano you’re in with a pretty good chance if you enter now! Head on over to the competition page and send me your ‘accessible’ review, I’ll extend the deadline to midnight tomorrow – so get in quick! Good luck Red

I called up The Edge this morning to purchase tickets to Chris Rock’s show in August at Auckland’s heritage Civic building, which me and my two mates are really looking forward to! So imagine my disgust when I was told that there is only provision for the disabled person and “one carer”, and that if I wanted to go with my two friends, one would have to sit in a different area of the theatre. When I enquired as to

Well it’s about time. Hawkes Bay resident Felicity Patterson has teamed up with United Travel to provide a travel advisory service exclusively to help disabled travellers! Felicity decided to take the initiative after travelling extensively throughout NZ and the world, and learning plenty about the potential pitfalls of travelling with a disability along the way! She says: So here I am now working as a travel consultant on a work trial with an Auckland travel agency, learning on the job.