You can try to reach out to Lucas Radaelli https://twitter.com/lucasradaelli for conseling, he is blind and developer at Google and works with accesibility projects.
you can take the ferry from italy to spain, takes around 24h and the pet can be free in your cabin and they have a special deck for you to walk it around
What's better than to have a good laugh, even if already read it, is always a nice book. And if you finish it fast, you have the rest of the series ahead.