It is pitch dark when he introduces himself to us. “I am Toine and I will take you to a few rooms. We will go to a living room, a square, we will cross a road, to a supermarket and finally to a pub.” And so we do. By touch, literally not a hand in front of our eyes. With Toine as our guide. He became completely blind at the age of fifteen, in both eyes, due to an inflammation of the retina.
muZIEum Ford Taunuses still drive and there bahamas mobile phone number list are red mailboxes and telephone booths. We are in the Muzieum , a museum in Nijmegen, where you can experience what happens to your senses when your sight is taken away. You touch, your hearing, your smell, how do they react? The guides are blind, or partially sighted. How old is Toine?
Quiet voice, trustworthy, it has to be, because we can't go anywhere without him. With a guide stick, Toine's explanation, our own ears and hands we try to form an idea of the space. A chair, a bench, a painting, a shopping cart, a curb, an onion, a net with oranges, a keyboard, an ATM. After a walk of an hour you realize that you have used your available senses with each other more than ever. Now I understand why a team with ten footballers performs better than eleven opponents.