Mike, Next September I will be in Romania for just over a month for the third time and on the way back from Romania we will be in Munich Germany for a couple of day, the last time I was on my trip I have done my home work regarding my guide dog right in the country I will be in, there was no problem but Romania have no law for any one with a disabilities , I had my USDA health paper for my dog and hope that we have gotten in the Taxi or eaten establishment I have left my guide dog at our family home and use my cane it was better to have a cane than a guide dog, but my wife was with me but I knew what I would be against with this type of problem. -----Original Message----- From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Leary Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 7:44 AM To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: denied access in a Copenhagen restaurant Hello Mike, I am very glad to see that you made yourself heard. Even in a foreign country I appreciate that you were verbal about it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "GPS-talkusers-freelists.org" <GPS-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 11:25 PM Subject: [gps-talkusers] denied access in a Copenhagen restaurant > The GPS helped get us to Visuvio's restaurant in Copenhagen but the front > door is where the access ended. It is rare for me to run into a situation > where I am absolutely denied access to a restaurant because of my Seeing > Eye dog. It is so frustrating and humiliating when it happens. > > The two previous restaurants we went to in the last day objected to the > dog but they didn't protest long. I know every angle in the book and > Visuvio's wasn't budging. We argued in the doorway for 20 minutes or so. I > called a blind Danish guy in the local blindness organization and he > explained that there isn't any specific legislation about dogs. It is hard > to know how general descrimination law applies in Denmark. We did pass one > other dog guide user on the street so it isn't the fact that there are no > dogs here. Anyone know the actual law about dog guides in Denmark? > > I really hate backing down. I was prepared to stand in his doorway the > whole evening but then there was the matter of our business dinner to > consider so eventually we relented and used the GPS to see what other > restaurants were nearby. Wouldn't you know we ended up at an Australian > restaurant. I will definitely make good on filing a complaint about > Visuvio's. I sure hope I don't run into too much more discrimination on > this trip through 5 European countries. It isn't any fun. > > Mike > > > > Michael G. May > > CEO Sendero Group > > Developers and distributors of BrailleNote GPS > Distributing BrailleNote, VoiceNote, Talks, Miniguide, The Tissot Silen-T > tactile watch, and the ID Mate bar code reader > > MikeMay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.SenderoGroup.com > > 1-888-757-6810, Fax (530) 757-6830, Mobile (530) 304-0007 > Sendero Group, LLC > 1118 Maple Lane, Davis, CA 95616-1723, USA > > Latitude, 38 33 9.239 North > Longitude, 121 45 40.145 West > > > > > > __________ NOD32 1898 (20061203) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >