On arrival at ARTIS I felt like a VIP guest. Having
bought my ticket online in advance, I whizzed straight past a huge queue of excited visitors to join a handful of others in the priority lane. Officially for ARTIS members, the priority lane is also the place for wheelchair users to
obtain a free chaperone ticket. As my wheelchair isn’t one I can use independently for long (
hello, exhausted arms and impossible slopes) my mum chaperoned me. Before I knew it, we were beeped in with both tickets and off on a little mother-daughter-zoo-adventure.