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Beautiful adventure:quadriplegic, she goes around the world

After losing the use of her legs, a young 30-year-old from Vaucluse, Nathalie Filice decided to take her wheelchair and her best friend Karen on board to go around the world. His goal ? Find the best plans to be able to travel easily when you are in a wheelchair. She creates the Tetra Trip association for travel for all. In October, she will fly to the Pacific Ocean for her year-long road trip. Just that ! We salute the superb initiative.

Bad experience

After her car accident in 2010 which cost her the use of her legs, Nathalie starts from a bad experience.
In the columns of the newspaper Provence she recounts her horrible trip to go to Punta Cana. She deplores the travel conditions for people in wheelchairs. She says she can't even go to the toilet. So for more than that to happen again, she decided to create her association and go hunting for good deals around the world for people with reduced mobility. On the program of his one-year journey in the Pacific Ocean:Australia, New Caledonia, French Polynesia and New Zealand. Its objective is to make a real backpacker's guide when you are in a wheelchair. Everything will of course be put online and we can follow their adventures on Instagram and Facebook. This trip is not without cost… more than 66,000€. Nathalie Filice launches a
appeal for generosity on Gofundme to finally be able to open the trip for all!

And then do we complain when we break a nail?