I’ve been away from Seville for a long time. Not long enough to forget the sharp near salty tang of the local fino sherry, that bitter sensation that once warmed my throat like turpentine before seducing me with its subtler flavours. Not long enough to forget the…

As the sun sets on 2011, I wondered which articles on Inside the Travel Lab you enjoyed the most.

I had a quick rummage through Google’s statistics and this is what the mighty G showed me…

Apparently, it’s bad form to write about sunsets. And even to take photos of them. And even to start sentences with “and” – but right now…

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…

A number of things are wrong. To begin with, I’m standing in a field surrounded by darkness, my mind pulling the duvet covers back over its head and mumbling into its pillow. Second, I’m…

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

I’d been to Paris once before. It was one of those rush around the museums by coach on a tight schedule affairs, one minute looking at bizarre hanging installations in the Pompidou Centre…

Well, hello there! This post, as the title suggests, is about travel writing for travel bloggers.

It includes the slides from my recent presentation at TBU Innsbruck, a conference aimed at, you guessed it…

While zipping around time zones lately, I received this sweet request from Katie at Tripbase: to answer the following seven questions using my articles from Inside the Travel Lab.

So, while my brain recovers from jet lag and my body recovers from…

I’m far from the first to string those four words together. Legendary journalist Kate Adie looped them in a line to describe her autobiography; Vivien Leigh sighed them in A Streetcar Named Desire. Writing courses rail against them and editors hang their heads and demand something fresh.

I’ve even…