Hello from the Trawheeler!
Hello! My name is Kamil Goungor, Polish with Turkish roots too, born in Greece and working for the European Network on Independent Living, a European disability rights organisation based in Brussels, Belgium. Quite international, right? This is how I feel after all, and what I answer when people ask me: citizen of the world, or if I have to narrow it down, European.
I studied journalism and communication, and, among other things, I like travelling, reading books, art (I still regret I didn’t study history of art), stand up comedy, sports, chess, to taste new stuff, and a couple of things that I shouldn’t write here. Yet.
I was thinking for a while to bring “The Trawheeler”, the first an only travel blog by a disabled traveller in Greece, to Substack. I used to have a website with the same name, where I shared occasionally my travel adventures, and after it fell down due to some complicated technical issues, it never came back. The main reason is that I don’t really know how to deal with this kind of things, plus I don’t have much free time to explore and learn. So Substack seemed like a good alternative.
Apart from The Trawheeler, I wanted also to bring a bit of Kamil here, the regular everyday guy, with his thoughts, questions, opinions about various things that are not travel related. I don’t really have a space for this. My Instagram account is travel exclusive, my LinkedIn one is mainly work related, my X account is mostly to repost work and sport stuff (though I have The Trawheeler edition too - not that active). Bluesky is even worse, and as for Facebook, I barely post there anymore, mostly doing reposts to The Trawheeler page.
I wanted a space to just share my thoughts on various topics, maybe being a bit jealous of some friends who seem to enjoy it a lot here. And anyway, why not, right?
So what you should expect from me here: A lot of travel related stuff obviously, but also thoughts around disability, about society, about human behavior, about things that excited or annoyed me, about sports and art, and finally, every spring, about Eurovision! This last one is the most serious one!
I like to question things, and also to ask and answer questions - “Be curious” said Stephen Hawking, and I am the best example of a curious person. But please be patient with me, as I am a busy man. I won’t be posting that regularly, but I promise to not disappear either.
So stay tuned and join me on board!