Ella's Adventures Blog

The harp that came before the country

Here's one that changed how I look at a pint. The harp on the side of a Guinness glass is older than Ireland's own national emblem. Guinness trademarked it in...

The harp that came before the country

Here's one that changed how I look at a pint. The harp on the side of a Guinness glass is older than Ireland's own national emblem. Guinness trademarked it in...

The fountains that only ever ran for the king

Here is the detail about Versailles that I cannot stop thinking about. For all its gold and mirrors and endless mirrored halls, the one thing the palace never had was...

The fountains that only ever ran for the king

Here is the detail about Versailles that I cannot stop thinking about. For all its gold and mirrors and endless mirrored halls, the one thing the palace never had was...

The narrowest house in the world is a bit of a fib

Here is the Amsterdam detail I keep laughing about. People come from all over to photograph the narrowest house in the world, a thread of a facade at Singel 7...

The narrowest house in the world is a bit of a fib

Here is the Amsterdam detail I keep laughing about. People come from all over to photograph the narrowest house in the world, a thread of a facade at Singel 7...

The sound of a broken bell

Quick correction nobody asked for: Big Ben isn't the tower. It never was. Big Ben is the thirteen ton bell inside it, and the tower borrowed the name so completely...

The sound of a broken bell

Quick correction nobody asked for: Big Ben isn't the tower. It never was. Big Ben is the thirteen ton bell inside it, and the tower borrowed the name so completely...

The bridge that's colour coded to Parliament

Here's a detail I only found out recently and now can't stop noticing. Westminster Bridge is green. Properly, deliberately green, matching the leather benches of the House of Commons, which...

The bridge that's colour coded to Parliament

Here's a detail I only found out recently and now can't stop noticing. Westminster Bridge is green. Properly, deliberately green, matching the leather benches of the House of Commons, which...

The bus that jumped the bridge

I know this sounds made up, but it's a properly documented, contemporaneously reported fact. On the 30th of December 1952, a number 78 bus was halfway across Tower Bridge when...

The bus that jumped the bridge

I know this sounds made up, but it's a properly documented, contemporaneously reported fact. On the 30th of December 1952, a number 78 bus was halfway across Tower Bridge when...