Inside the Travel Lab

It’s Semana Santa or Holy Week in Seville. Here’s a sneak preview of a procession rehearsal. More to follow… UPDATE: Find the Travel Lab Report on Semana Santa in Seville here.

Entry to Auschwitz feels like a macabre blend between a Saturday afternoon football crush, a communist toilet block and the road to hell itself…

A few weeks ago I spent a day joining in with the olive harvest in Jaen, a mountainous region in Andalusia. After a hard day at work, it was time for cerveza and tapas…

I’m running through Kraków’s bus station, spinning around to see coaches lined up behind me and smaller trams rattling through the concrete space below. My eyes jump around, searching for D8, for…

In the autumn of 2009, the indomitable travel writer Nellie Huang from Wild Junket approached me. She asked me to write about my wildest adventure but how should I decide…

The Broken Chair jolts out of the dreary Place des Nations in Geneva. Surrounded by steady traffic and standing opposite the European UN Headquarters, I found its size, odd rust-green colour and geometrical..

London. A vast metropolis with skyscrapers, a spaghetti-tangled underground system and arguably more than four international airports, not to mention a parking system so complex that even residents need a helpline.

Teddington Gate – One Entrance to Bushy Park
Yet…

Sawai Madhopur is a small town on the edge of Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan, a base for tiger safaris.

Both in and outside the park, however, monkeys roam freely…

Inside the Travel Lab has been travelling around travel blogs recently…

It all started with the police check last night.

Torchlight zig-zagged across the car and we huddled in the backseat.

“You are English,” said the policeman. “And yet you say you want…