About
The Best Independent Cultural Travel & Adventure
Welcome! This is a blog about independent cultural travel and adventure. About finding unusual journeys. About bringing travel inspiration home with you, even if you can’t be on the road. About laughing at the crazy things we humans do and sparing a thought for those in need. About learning about the world and, yes, as cheesy as it sounds, trying to make it a better place.
A Bit About The Blog
I started this blog when I left my job as a hospital doctor and embarked on a career in freelance writing and photography. It’s grown a lot since then and just like a proud parent I’m overcome with the urge to tell you about every single achievement (mentioned on National Geographic’s Intelligent Traveler, rated as one of the world’s Top 150 Travel Blogs by Invesp, sometimes even read by my mum.)
A Bit About Me & The Blog
I’ve always loved how travel inspires me to think about life in a different way and I decided to create a site that encourages other people to do the same. Most travel writing covers mass tourism and resorts, and while they’re not always bad things, they’re not the part of travel that makes me feel alive.
A Bit About Me
I’m a travel writer and photographer who was thrilled to discover that asking a lot of questions was seen as a good thing in this line of work. My rather unusual training began with a career in neuroscience research followed by medical school and several years spent working as a doctor in Emergency Medicine.
It’s that scientific background that explains the name Inside the Travel Lab. To me, a lab is a place for insight and discovery, for inspiration and for looking at a “problem” in a whole new way. To be inside that, is to be right where the action is.
Join me as I explore the art and science of unusual journeys…
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