Inside the Travel Lab

I hope to bring Ljubljana to life for you here on Inside the Travel Lab, piece by piece, over the course of 2012 as part of my #IronRoute Project. Yet to spare you the overload experienced by my hard drive, oh long-suffering reader, I’ll start with this bite-sized list and fill in the gaps later.

Like many a hotel in London, a Union Jack flag hangs over the doorway of The Rubens at the Palace, the fabric swaying with all the haste of an oak tree expanding its roots. Unlike many hotels in London…

To a frequent traveller like myself, portable wifi sounded like a dream come true.

Hire a mobile wifi device, take it with you. Be online wherever you are.

So when…

I’d love to know what you think – so I’ve devised a questionnaire that’s quicker and easier to fill in than putting water into a kettle.

As a child, I always wanted to swim with dolphins. And if I’m honest, as an adult as well.

Swimming with dolphins has become a cliché in the repertoire of half-formed dreams, wishes and wonderings of those who realise that their time on this earth is limited. Yet…

Ask many people where London’s cathedral is and they’ll confidently point to Westminster Abbey – which isn’t a cathedral and isn’t even in London (at least not the City of London). The correct answer, of course, is St Paul’s… except that it isn’t. Not quite. London has…

he Hospes Palacio de los Patos, a luxury hotel in Granada, has a story. Maybe even a story and a half.

Built in 1890 or so, as a grand expression of fine living in Granada, it quickly acquired the nickname of the “Palace of the Ducks” – a cheeky reference to…

Rummaging through the archives this week, I stumbled on my photos of the Taj Mahal, taken on an old point and shoot digital camera. While I have plenty attempts at…

This week’s photo quiz comes from Europe…This city was the birthplace of the man who invented the biro…but where is it?

So, the last photo quiz took us to film strips and clouds in the US of A. This one might stretch you a little bit more…Take a look at the scale – that’s a boat in the background.

Where is it? What is it? Don’t be shy – pop a suggestion into the comment box below…