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Inside the Travel Lab on Twitter

Buenos Dias, Bonjour, G’Day and, er, Hello.

A brand new twitter account for this Inside the Travel Lab blog was born last week, called..
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Thai Rain

Rain changes a landscape as much as it changes our behaviour. Yet because taking photos in the rain is a miserable experience, accompanied by the nagging concern about camera damage, most photos show places radiating with sunshine.

Here are…
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Ghosts Underground

The Museum of the International Red Cross and Crescent, Geneva
They stand together. Arms shackled, faces covered, feet bare, their posture somehow shrieking both defiance and despair. They huddle in the corner and a wide space surrounds them. Reflective glass panels form the walls in this courtyard, while white sail sheets stretch over their heads, bearing [...]
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Around Mont Blanc – White Mountains at Sunset

Mont Blanc, the white mountain, rises out of the Alps to claim the title of the highest peak in Western Europe. I’ve been lucky enough to..
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The Shadow of the Wind

Set in the streets of Barcelona around the time of the Civil War, The Shadow of the Wind delivers poetic melancholy, gothic..

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Ghosts Underground

The Museum of the International Red Cross and Crescent, Geneva
They stand together. Arms shackled, faces covered, feet bare, their posture somehow shrieking both defiance and despair. They huddle in the corner and a wide space surrounds them. Reflective glass panels form the walls in this courtyard, while white sail sheets stretch over their heads, bearing [...]
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Searching for Volcanoes

Speeding along the tarmac road, I wonder how long it’s been since I last took a normal breath. The road drops…
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It’s Raining Sweets – Reyes Magos, Spain

The crowd cheers and I duck as a rainbow of hardboiled missiles pelts down around me. A moment later, men, women and children scrabble around on the lamplit pavement, their hands brushing mine, their fingernails gouging mud and fruity pulp…
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The Blogger, the Coast and the Segway.

It’s an ominous start to the day: dragging 40 kilos of equipment through Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. We are a group of travel bloggers; the demonic machine, the Segway.
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Soothing Souls – The Legacy of Salts Mill

Everyone talks in whispers, the omnipresent classical music giving the atmosphere of a reverential mass, or perhaps a mix between a library, an art gallery and heartbreak hotel.
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Hiroshima Today

As the sleek shinkansen train slid into Hiroshima station, I admit I felt nervous. Yet for all the studies and reports, I was still unprepared for what I saw.

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Mojo & Wrinkly Potatoes

They may look as though they’re just potatoes with more wrinkles than Mick Jagger and a crusting of salt on the top but
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Beauty & Terror, Climbing Volcanoes

Holy smoke. Just back from the most beautiful and terrifying drive of my life. Words to follow. Can you guess where it is?

Part of PhotoFriday at DeliciousBaby
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Crossing the Severn Bridge and Into the New Year

Two suspension bridges connect England to Wales. It’s a stormy, exposed stretch and I’ve never quite brought myself to…
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More Flaming Food

I struggled to explain Christmas Pudding to my Spanish friends
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Home for Christmas?

With Christmas looming so close on the horizon we’ve almost tripped over it, many travellers are thinking of – if not actually almost at - home. Where exactly home is, however, slips through your fingers like chocolate melting on a summer’s day in Seville.
There is No Place Like Home
Cate, from the Caffeinated Traveller, remembers Dorothy from the [...]
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Crema Catalana: When Burning Food Is Good

Crema catalana is often described as a Catalan crème brûlée, a dessert with a rugged, citrus twist on the delicate French classic. But don’t be fooled by the apparent resilience of this custard dish. The…
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Run, Santa, Run!

A festive “Photo Friday” this week and all in the name of a good cause. Special thanks go to traveller Tim Harrison for these photos, taken from the Santa Run for Disability SnowSport UK.

You’ve missed it for this year, but if the thought of dressing up like Father Christmas and pounding the streets of London [...]
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Stepping Across Stones

The monks who chose to settle here must have had an eye for beauty and antennae for peace, and it’s hard to imagine a more restful place for those…
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The Frog, the Astronaut and the Sore Neck

Spain, like many European countries, has plenty of cathedrals.

But how many have an astronaut in their delicately-carved stone?
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Finding Freedom

On Saturday I discovered one of my favourite things in a city – a free art gallery. Better yet, a gallery that also hosts dance performances, and that’s where I caught up with Claire Cunningham and José Agudo in their joint project, 4m2.
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The Adventures of Billy Bookcase

England, France, Spain.

Different dresscodes, different foods, different languages, different outlooks. But when it comes to furniture, Swedish
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Folding Prayers in Japan

Across Japan, amidst the crowds or within the privacy of solitude, people read their fortunes and say their prayers. Depending on whether they like what they read, they tie the paper in neat knots outside the temple.
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Ransom – A Travel Book on Japan

As a thriller, I enjoyed this book almost until its conclusion, however as a travelogue I loved it all the way through.
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A Bandit Museum

Who could resist? I was walking around Ronda, home to an incredible bridge and arguably the birthplace of bullfighting, when a sign caught my eye.

Museo Bandolero. A bandit museum.
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Twilight at the Alamillo, Seville

A little further out, however, Seville reveals its modern face, the lights and the energy of a city on the up.
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Moving from Blogger to Wordpress

Not content with moving myself across the globe, I recently moved my blog from blogger to wordpress.For those of you considering making the same move – read on.
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Oranges in Seville

It’s not an urban legend - the streets of Seville really are lined with orange trees. Right now, they’re sprouting orbs of green but I’ve spotted a few that are getting ahead of the pack…

We’ll see oranges in no time…
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Memories of Moshi

Remember the time when a photograph was something we held in our hands, waited for weeks to see and then painstakingly arranged in albums we could touch? Or in my case, at least, stuffed them in a cardboard box somewhere with great plans to do all that at some vague point in the future.