Tonight, my past caught up with me. Not in a thriller kind of way, with howls of wind and a ghostly nemesis, nor even with an illegitimate child or the taxman at the door (although he did send me an email. The taxman, that is…

25 Best Travel Blogs Badge Hot on the heels of winning the best travel writing award at TBU, came another piece of good news…

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

Everything you wanted to know about finding the top travel blogs on the web

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!

Are you a blogger? Then hereby resolve to do the following for a better and utterly wondrous 2011 where all your dreams come true, your number of RSS subscribers matches the number of records sold by Michael Jackson and you rank even higher than google when someone types in “G”…

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 [...]

Passports with Purposeis a fundraising initiative that invites travel bloggers from around the world to get together online to make the world a better place (I know it sounds cheesy, but…

If you’ve seen the name TBEX floating around on Twitter or Facebook or some other cyber entity then here’s the place for the explanation.

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