They say that you never forget your first time – and for me that was in Seville. While strolling along in the unfiltered sunshine, sharp flashes of light caught my eye. This was it, this was what I had heard about:
Despite the stillness of the water, there’s no sound of silence. Insects skim across the reeds with a soft buzz and woodpeckers…
Words from one of Formula One’s secret masterminds, Italian-born Race Engineer Gianluca Pisanello from Lotus Racing…
The Oceanográfico forms part of the spectacular City of Arts & Sciences complex in Valencia. As the largest aquarium in Europe…it makes me uneasy.
“A lot of people talk about the F1 bubble,” says Tom, as reporters walk past in jeans and T-shirts…
“We’ve been here all week,” say the first couple we meet in Sawai Madhopur, when we ask the question that’s on everyone’s mind.
“It’s about to get extremely loud in here, guys,” says the Lotus spokesman. “Really loud.” I’m in the Lotus Formula One team garage – and with…
In the midst of a fresh Paris spring, I was standing in another building with scuffed wooden floors…
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Zafra. The very name of the place intrigued me, so I was hoping for something different, something exciting and the Parador de Zafra…
Japan has no shortage ofonsen, natural hot springs where people dip in and out of skin-scalding pools in order to soak, scrub and just relax and say ahhhhh.
Yet in Jigokudani Yaenkoen, macaque monkeys got there first.
If you have been following this blog for a while, you may remember reading about a good friend of mine who died last September…
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..
Córdoba, in Andalusia, has an unusual cathedral. Unusual in that it was built within a mosque. Not on the former grounds of one, or as an adaptation of one, but actually totally and utterly in the middle of one.
I’m playing with experimenting with technology today at Inside the Travel Lab. So here’s a cool photo from the island of Miya Jima (Shrine Island) in Japan to keep you entertained while I meddle with connections to Inside the Travel Lab’s Facebook Page. Back soon…
Pedro Martina’s sun-worn face lights up as he grabs my shoulder and points into the distance.
“Three of them are under the water now,” he says. It’s certainly not the first time Pedro has hunted whales…
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…
Two suspension bridges connect England to Wales. It’s a stormy, exposed stretch and I’ve never quite brought myself to…
A little further out, however, Seville reveals its modern face, the lights and the energy of a city on the up.
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.
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.
With only 2000 pandas left on the planet, they can be tricky to track down. In Chengdu
“Whatever you do, don’t miss the bridges.”
That’s a phrase I’ve never heard before.
For years, this greyish dome claimed the record of Europe’s highest stargazing site, in the days before the Hubble Space Telescope made mountain peaks the grandads of astronomy.
This week I’ll be attending an Advanced Life Support course, to keep my qualifications up to date. We’ll get to resuscitate plastic dolls, wave those electric paddles around in the air
Even geniuses get frustrated by administrative problems…
There’s never an easy time to have an accident, but being abroad dials up the intensity.
Hotels are often an afterthought when I travel. I’ve slept on exposed rooftops, boat decks, beaches and park benches, not that I’d recommend doing most of that again. I’ve also had the chance to stay in forts, palaces, monasteries and caves and enjoyed the kind of innovative luxury that has simply dazzled me. Most of [...]
These days, I take promises of viewing exotic wildlife with more than a pinch of saltwater. Particularly endangered species. To find pandas I had to travel for days. To glimpse a tiger, I shivered morning and night under a blanket of frost.
But to see turtles in Barbados? I only needed to…
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Inside the Travel Lab blogs about the world of unusual journeys.
