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Travel Around Top Travel Blogs
Mar 10, 2010
Inside the Travel Lab has been travelling around travel blogs recently…
Category: Blog
The Web’s Best Travel Blogs – Inside the Travel Lab
Mar 04, 2010
TravelPod have been compiling their list of the web’s best travel blogs – and guess what? Inside the Travel Lab is right there in the thick of it.
A Slice of the Taff Trail
Mar 01, 2010
A Photo Journey Through the Capital of Wales
The Taff Trail strides through the valleys of South Wales, taking in castles, countryside and what has been optimistically described as “industrial archaeology.”I’ve strolled, cycled and even rollerbladed along its path, although I’ve never made the complete trip from the capital city of Cardiff through to the town [...]
In Essaouira, the colour is…
Feb 26, 2010
In Morocco, the colours dazzle.
Marketplaces, in particular, fire up my photoreceptors faster than I can manage to take photos.
Inside the Travel Lab’s New Year Resolutions
Feb 15, 2010
The astute among you will have noticed that it is not January 1st, so what am I doing making New Year’s Resolutions? It’s the Chinese New Year, of course.*
Suddenly Gone
Feb 12, 2010
Death isn’t something that most of us like to think about, particularly when we’re young. Sadly, that doesn’t make any difference. I’m not here to frighten you because there are things that you can do…
One Thousand Ways to Say Hello
Feb 10, 2010
Geneva is a city with an international reputation and Place du Molard clearly wants people to feel at home. Snuggled among the charcoal cobbles, glowing squares say hello in languages from around the world.
At least I assume that’s what they mean. I couldn’t translate them all…
Find more travel photos – and all sorts of welcomes [...]
Inside the Travel Lab on Twitter
Feb 07, 2010
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..
Around Mont Blanc – White Mountains at Sunset
Jan 29, 2010
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..
Mojo & Wrinkly Potatoes
Jan 22, 2010
They may look as though they’re just potatoes with more wrinkles than Mick Jagger and a crusting of salt on the top but
Beauty & Terror, Climbing Volcanoes
Jan 15, 2010
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
Living on Reed Islands, Lake Titicaca
Jan 11, 2010
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 lake [...]
It’s Raining Sweets – Reyes Magos, Spain
Jan 06, 2010
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…
Crossing the Severn Bridge and Into the New Year
Dec 31, 2009
Two suspension bridges connect England to Wales. It’s a stormy, exposed stretch and I’ve never quite brought myself to…
Home for Christmas?
Dec 24, 2009
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 [...]
Run, Santa, Run!
Dec 18, 2009
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 [...]
Stepping Across Stones
Dec 15, 2009
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…
The Frog, the Astronaut and the Sore Neck
Dec 11, 2009
Spain, like many European countries, has plenty of cathedrals.
But how many have an astronaut in their delicately-carved stone?
Finding Freedom
Dec 07, 2009
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.
Sparks Fly in Seville
Dec 01, 2009
Sparks fly in Seville – and it’s all in the name of love, eternity and structural maintenance.
For a few years now,
The Adventures of Billy Bookcase
Nov 23, 2009
England, France, Spain.
Different dresscodes, different foods, different languages, different outlooks. But when it comes to furniture, Swedish
Folding Prayers in Japan
Nov 20, 2009
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.
Ransom – A Travel Book on Japan
Nov 16, 2009
As a thriller, I enjoyed this book almost until its conclusion, however as a travelogue I loved it all the way through.
A Bandit Museum
Nov 13, 2009
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.
Moving from Blogger to Wordpress
Nov 05, 2009
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.
Oranges in Seville
Nov 03, 2009
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…
Surfing the Web
Oct 22, 2009
Thing is, most of the time when you try to surf, you fall off, inhale saltwater and choke before being hit on the head by your very own surfboard.
ABOUT ME: I’m a freelance writer with a passion for travel and a background in Neuroscience and Emergency Medicine.
