Ella's Adventures Blog
The dome that was rebuilt from a photograph
On the night of 9 November 1940, a chimney fire got out of hand while Castle Howard was being used as a girls' boarding school, and it brought the great...
The dome that was rebuilt from a photograph
On the night of 9 November 1940, a chimney fire got out of hand while Castle Howard was being used as a girls' boarding school, and it brought the great...
The temple where the sun never touches the god ...
Here is the Abu Simbel detail I cannot stop thinking about, and it is not the four giants out front. Everyone knows the temple for those colossal seated Ramesses, each...
The temple where the sun never touches the god ...
Here is the Abu Simbel detail I cannot stop thinking about, and it is not the four giants out front. Everyone knows the temple for those colossal seated Ramesses, each...
The Jerusalem wall that became its makers' grave
Everyone comes through Jaffa Gate under those great honey coloured walls and heads for the markets. Hardly anyone stops at the little iron railing just inside, where two worn stone...
The Jerusalem wall that became its makers' grave
Everyone comes through Jaffa Gate under those great honey coloured walls and heads for the markets. Hardly anyone stops at the little iron railing just inside, where two worn stone...
The pyramid that has eight sides, not four
Here is the Giza detail I cannot stop thinking about, and it is not the one on the postcards. Everyone knows the Great Pyramid as the last of the seven...
The pyramid that has eight sides, not four
Here is the Giza detail I cannot stop thinking about, and it is not the one on the postcards. Everyone knows the Great Pyramid as the last of the seven...
The Moscow architect who kept his eyes
Here is the Saint Basil's detail I love, and almost everyone gets it wrong because the wrong version is so much more dramatic. Everyone knows the story: Ivan the Terrible...
The Moscow architect who kept his eyes
Here is the Saint Basil's detail I love, and almost everyone gets it wrong because the wrong version is so much more dramatic. Everyone knows the story: Ivan the Terrible...
The staircase that grows every year
Here is the Alpine detail I keep turning over in my head. High on the Great Aletsch Glacier, above the spot where all the tributary ice flows together, there is...
The staircase that grows every year
Here is the Alpine detail I keep turning over in my head. High on the Great Aletsch Glacier, above the spot where all the tributary ice flows together, there is...