Ella's Adventures Blog

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...

The Plitviče waterfall that drowned under its ...

Here is the Plitviče  detail I love, and almost everyone misses it because they are busy counting waterfalls from the boardwalk. Everyone knows Plitviče  as sixteen turquoise lakes stacked down a...

The Plitviče waterfall that drowned under its ...

Here is the Plitviče  detail I love, and almost everyone misses it because they are busy counting waterfalls from the boardwalk. Everyone knows Plitviče  as sixteen turquoise lakes stacked down a...

The Edinburgh gun that is only there for the fog

Here is the Edinburgh Castle detail I love, and almost everyone misses it because they are too busy jumping out of their skin. Everyone knows the gun that fires at...

The Edinburgh gun that is only there for the fog

Here is the Edinburgh Castle detail I love, and almost everyone misses it because they are too busy jumping out of their skin. Everyone knows the gun that fires at...

The Roman spring that was really a complaints box

Here is the Bath detail I love, and almost everyone misses it because they are too busy admiring the steaming green water and the golden Georgian terraces. Everyone knows the...

The Roman spring that was really a complaints box

Here is the Bath detail I love, and almost everyone misses it because they are too busy admiring the steaming green water and the golden Georgian terraces. Everyone knows the...

The Great Wall is held together with sticky rice

  Here is the Great Wall detail I love, and almost everyone misses it because they are too busy taking in the scale of the thing. Everyone knows it snakes...

The Great Wall is held together with sticky rice

  Here is the Great Wall detail I love, and almost everyone misses it because they are too busy taking in the scale of the thing. Everyone knows it snakes...

The Tower's polar bear that fished in the Thames

Here is the Tower of London detail I love, and almost everyone misses it because they are too busy with the crown jewels and the ravens. Everyone knows the Tower...

The Tower's polar bear that fished in the Thames

Here is the Tower of London detail I love, and almost everyone misses it because they are too busy with the crown jewels and the ravens. Everyone knows the Tower...