Inside the Travel Lab

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…

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…

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.

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Valencia. By the hand of fortune, the destiny of throwing rotten tomatoes and the hot rubber of Formula One, Valencia has enticed me here four times now and counting. Yet, however diverse my reasons for stopping by, there’s always one place I make time to see:

Standing beneath the swirls of the Oscar Niemeyer Centre in Avilés, the world seems to fall away. The earth, that only moments ago felt sturdy and reliable, now spins with a heaviness that threatens to topple my balance. Harsh white lines cut an outline against the sky:

The true City of London, or the Square Mile, forms the financial heart and hub of London. It’s a place of steel and glass, of suits and speed and the habit of gambling on the future rather than rambling on about the past. Yet among some stunning new buildings, the…

The dazzling (if incongruously named) Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, designed by Frank Gehry. More on my recent adventures…

I’ll admit it, I have photo fever at the moment. I’m trying out…

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.