To be honest with you, I’m a little nervous about writing this post. The short version is that I’m thrilled to have won the Best Travel Writing award at the recent TBU conference in Innsbruck. The medium version is

Huge thanks to Preseli Venture for naming Inside the Travel Lab as one of their top ten travel blogs. There are plenty of heavyweights in that list (in terms of blogging, not stature, obviously) so it’s quite an honour to be listed there. Thanks again!

When it comes to “Top Ten” lists, I find them fun but I never take them seriously. So when an email landed in my ludicrously overpopulated inbox with the subject “The Top Ten Ethical Destinations,” my cynical old heart sank a little. Why?

My student travel days are far, far behind me so it’s even more of a nice surprise to discover that College Scholarships have named Inside the Travel Lab as one of the Top 150 Student Travel Blogs. I’m in very good company, with heavyweights Lonely Planet, Matador & Gadling plus some excellent individual bloggers also on [...]

It also makes it all the more exciting to find that Inside the Travel Lab has made it onto this list:

Lovely to find Inside the Travel Lab described as one of the Top Ten Europe Blogs You’ll Love today. Cheers!

In the midst of a fresh Paris spring, I was standing in another building with scuffed wooden floors…

Travel the world from the comfort of a blog, that’s (kind of) the promise from…

Inside the Travel Lab has been travelling around travel blogs recently…

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.