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Liquid Gold & Mud Slides

It all started with the police check last night.

Torchlight zig-zagged across the car and we huddled in the backseat.

“You are English,” said the policeman. “And yet you say you want…

Doorways in Cordoba

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.

A Cool Photo – Miya Jima

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…

The Web’s Best Travel Blogs – Inside the Travel Lab

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.

Mushrooms In the Mountains

What really made me sit up and take notice, though, was the mushroom liquor – some sort of home brew…

A Slice of the Taff Trail

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…

In Morocco, the colours dazzle.

Marketplaces, in particular, fire up my photoreceptors faster than I can manage to take photos.

Volver – Return to Spain

Pedro Almodóvar, one of Spain’s greatest directors, travels back to his homeland of La Mancha with this film. Volver contrasts the city life of Madrid against…

Life Imitates Art in Copacabana

It’s not a flashy photo but I love this shot from Rio, Brazil. I was walking between those iconic beaches, Ipanema and Copacabana, when I saw…

Beneath the Deep Blue Sea

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…

Inside the Travel Lab’s New Year Resolutions

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

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

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

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..

Thai Rain

Rain changes a landscape as much as it changes our behaviour. Yet because taking photos in the rain is a miserable experience, accompanied by the nagging concern about camera damage, most photos show places radiating with sunshine.

Here are…

Ghosts Underground

The Museum of the International Red Cross and Crescent, Geneva
They stand together. Arms shackled, faces covered, feet bare, their posture somehow shrieking both defiance and despair. They huddle in the corner and a wide space surrounds them. Reflective glass panels form the walls in this courtyard, while white sail sheets stretch over their heads, bearing [...]

Around Mont Blanc – White Mountains at Sunset

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..

The Shadow of the Wind

Set in the streets of Barcelona around the time of the Civil War, The Shadow of the Wind delivers poetic melancholy, gothic..

Mojo & Wrinkly Potatoes

They may look as though they’re just potatoes with more wrinkles than Mick Jagger and a crusting of salt on the top but

Searching for Volcanoes

Speeding along the tarmac road, I wonder how long it’s been since I last took a normal breath. The road drops…

Beauty & Terror, Climbing Volcanoes

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

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

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

Two suspension bridges connect England to Wales. It’s a stormy, exposed stretch and I’ve never quite brought myself to…

More Flaming Food

I struggled to explain Christmas Pudding to my Spanish friends

Home for Christmas?

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 [...]

Crema Catalana: When Burning Food Is Good

Crema catalana is often described as a Catalan crème brûlée, a dessert with a rugged, citrus twist on the delicate French classic. But don’t be fooled by the apparent resilience of this custard dish. The…

The Blogger, the Coast and the Segway.

It’s an ominous start to the day: dragging 40 kilos of equipment through Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. We are a group of travel bloggers; the demonic machine, the Segway.

Run, Santa, Run!

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 [...]