I’m just back from my #IronRoute project – travelling from Istanbul to Berlin by train in order to zig-zag across the former Iron Curtain. I wanted to find out more about the countries that used to live on either side of the border…
Tag Archives | Best Video
Collection of the best travel movies from global adventure blog Inside the Travel Lab. From rock concerts to buffalo rides, icy adventure cruises to interviews with costume designers, explore your world through video…

Balloon flights: Hot & Cold
Another four am start. Another cold morning. Another walk through darkness and another outstanding experience. [...]

The Canyon Video: Adrenaline, Neoprene & Plenty of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Just when you think you’ve done it all (Well most of it. A lot. At least half. OK, so some adventures at least) along comes something new. Welcome to canyoning…

Underwater Videos: Testing the Olympus TG-610
As it turns out, once you’ve made the jump (ahem) into the water to take still photos with a piece of technology, it’s then very easy to switch to the video mode and…

Surf Lessons: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly
Men form a semi-circle on the sand, arching their backs and turning their faces towards the sun. But this isn’t a wellness retreat or a yoga lesson.
It’s surfing. And this is a surf lesson…

The Valencia Grand Prix: Inside the Safety Car
Last year, I was lucky enough to travel inside the Formula One Paddock and interview Lotus race engineer Gianluca Pisanello.
This year, I bring you the view from the track from inside the safety car…

Pike Place Market, Seattle
Seattle’s Pike Place Market has pulled off an outrageously flamboyant version of the American Dream: it’s made selling fish sexy.

Making a Travel Video with the SONY-NEX5
A Beginner’s Guide As promised in The Sony NEX-5 Camera – The Travel Photography [...]

London: The coolest way to travel…
Emerging from Clapham Junction’s grey and predictable train station, I saw him straight away. A scarlet…
An Unusual Journey in Japan’s Okinawa Islands: Island-Hopping By Water Buffalo
When the US occupied the Okinawa islands in southwest Japan, they switched the rules of the road to make everyone drive on the right. These remote Yaeyama islanders did what they had always done: they let the water buffalo choose the route.
How Close Can You Get? Icebergs in Alaska
So simple, so fresh, so utterly amazing. Ice and fire fascinate me at a level [...]

How Sparkly Bras Save Lives
Karen Christoffersen, the costume designer at Copenhagen’s Circus, introduced me to the science behind the sparkly bra. As with so much in the world, there’s much more to it than…

Gold Dust & Magic Mud – A Glacier Tour in Alaska
Bright white and blue – that’s the typical image of a glacier, isn’t it? Milky glacial water, iridescent ice and a sky full of sunshine or perhaps the swirl of falling snow.
The Baird Glacier in southeast Alaska has a rather different chemistry…
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