Ella's Adventures Blog
The green hills behind the Cinque Terre that no...
Here is the Cinque Terre detail I cannot stop thinking about, and almost everyone misses it entirely. You come for the five little villages, all those sherbet-coloured houses tumbling down...
The green hills behind the Cinque Terre that no...
Here is the Cinque Terre detail I cannot stop thinking about, and almost everyone misses it entirely. You come for the five little villages, all those sherbet-coloured houses tumbling down...
The tart born from laundry
This is one of my favourite food origin stories, because it starts with laundry. Monks at the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém used egg whites to starch their habits, and instead...
The tart born from laundry
This is one of my favourite food origin stories, because it starts with laundry. Monks at the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém used egg whites to starch their habits, and instead...
The treasury with no treasure in it
The Treasury at Petra isn't a treasury. It's a tomb, carved into rose-red sandstone by the Nabataeans more than two thousand years ago, and the name comes entirely from a...
The treasury with no treasure in it
The Treasury at Petra isn't a treasury. It's a tomb, carved into rose-red sandstone by the Nabataeans more than two thousand years ago, and the name comes entirely from a...
The pastel biscuit that's younger than it looks
Here's one that surprised me while I was researching it. Those perfectly matched pastel macarons stacked in a Paris shop window feel like they must be centuries old. The sandwich...
The pastel biscuit that's younger than it looks
Here's one that surprised me while I was researching it. Those perfectly matched pastel macarons stacked in a Paris shop window feel like they must be centuries old. The sandwich...
The most French thing that isn't French
I have to come clean about this one. The croissant, the single most French breakfast on earth, started out as something else entirely. It was the Austrian kipferl, a crescent...
The most French thing that isn't French
I have to come clean about this one. The croissant, the single most French breakfast on earth, started out as something else entirely. It was the Austrian kipferl, a crescent...
The flower that isn't really Dutch
Everyone assumes the tulip belongs to the Netherlands, and I did too until I looked into it. It actually started out as a wild flower growing in the mountains of...
The flower that isn't really Dutch
Everyone assumes the tulip belongs to the Netherlands, and I did too until I looked into it. It actually started out as a wild flower growing in the mountains of...