Being a person who lives quite happily with partial hearing, I had never really considered what it would be like to be visually impaired or even blind, but an experience last week made me think.
A few of my colleagues and I went to the Blindekuh (Blind Cow) restaurant in Zurich - nothing groundbreaking about that you might think - other than all of the staff are visually impaired and you sit, eat and drink in total darkness. No lights, no mobile phones or iPod screens to light things up a bit......only the odd glow of the dials on peoples watches.
Its amazing how you adapt quite quickly and use your senses of hearing, touch and smell to survive. Highlights were holding the wine glass and bottle next to my ear to try to gauge how much I was pouring, and gamely pushing non existent food onto my fork with amusing regularity!
As I said...it makes you think!
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