Ella's Adventures Blog
The word every stock exchange still owes to a c...
Every time someone says bourse, börse, borsa or bolsa, they're quoting a family that ran an inn on a Bruges canal in the thirteenth century, whether they know it or...
The word every stock exchange still owes to a c...
Every time someone says bourse, börse, borsa or bolsa, they're quoting a family that ran an inn on a Bruges canal in the thirteenth century, whether they know it or...
The stones that built their own legend
I love it when geology accidentally invents a myth, and the Giant's Causeway might be the best example of that anywhere. Around 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns, all cooled into shape...
The stones that built their own legend
I love it when geology accidentally invents a myth, and the Giant's Causeway might be the best example of that anywhere. Around 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns, all cooled into shape...
The icon that started out as a radio mast
Here's one that always surprises people. The CN Tower wasn't built to be looked at. It was built to be listened to. By the late 1960s, Toronto's skyline had grown...
The icon that started out as a radio mast
Here's one that always surprises people. The CN Tower wasn't built to be looked at. It was built to be listened to. By the late 1960s, Toronto's skyline had grown...
The gap nobody can explain
I love a place that hides its best secret in plain sight, and the Grand Canyon does it better than almost anywhere. Those walls are basically a timeline, layer after...
The gap nobody can explain
I love a place that hides its best secret in plain sight, and the Grand Canyon does it better than almost anywhere. Those walls are basically a timeline, layer after...
The view that's actually a scar
Everyone photographs this view the same way, white buildings, blue domes, that dramatic drop down to the sea. What most people don't see is that the drop isn't a coastline....
The view that's actually a scar
Everyone photographs this view the same way, white buildings, blue domes, that dramatic drop down to the sea. What most people don't see is that the drop isn't a coastline....
The view that's younger than it looks
Everyone knows this image, even if they don't know the name of the place. Sénanque Abbey, all pale stone, sitting in a valley of purple lavender rows. It looks like...
The view that's younger than it looks
Everyone knows this image, even if they don't know the name of the place. Sénanque Abbey, all pale stone, sitting in a valley of purple lavender rows. It looks like...