Inside the Travel Lab

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..

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

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

Speeding along the tarmac road, I wonder how long it’s been since I last took a normal breath. The road drops…

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

High in the Andes, our little boat jolts unevenly as it battles with Lake Titicaca’s choppy waves. The sky is overcast but even without the heavy clouds we’d struggle to see the shore. South America’s largest lake lives at 3,800 metres, separates two countries and behaves like a mountainous ocean god. However, it’s not the [...]

In Seville, children don’t hang stockings on Christmas Eve. They don’t listen for sleigh bells at night and would probably struggle with the concept of snow. Instead…