THE ADVENTURES OF ELLIE AND BARRY (AND HENNING)

This blog is brought to you by Ellie. Good day, fellow travellers! Today we awoke to much milder weather from the get-go. It was an early start for us, rising at 06:30, having a quick breakfast and rushing out the door. Despite our efforts, we were running a bit behind and it was a little bit panic stations when we came out from the Metro and marched toward Vatican City, the second country of the trip and, as Barry mentioned, the smallest country in the world! Fun fact: highe

This blog is brought to you by Barry Buongiorno! With a busy day ahead of us we were awake at a reasonably early hour, if not the crack of dawn then perhaps the cleft? Breakfast was the first thing in our agenda - always the highlight of a hotel stay if it’s included in the price. Sadly though it was more of a restaurant-style setup rather than a pile ‘em high buffet and so I felt socially unable to request my usual plate of ‘one of everything, plus a few spares’. Still, the

This blog is brought to you by Ellie. We’re back at it again, folks! When we last left you, we had been galavanting all over Geneva for my birthday, getting all Christmassy. Our first holiday of 2026 is going to be a short, but much needed, break. Amid wedding planning and sometimes stressful jobs, it’s nice to get back to normal. Rome is the city of choice this time and I have never been to Italy before! Barry has been to Milan and did not get on so well with Italian public

This blog is (also) brought to you by Barry In our last instalment I promised that Ellie would be guiding you through our trip into the Swiss Alps. However, since our return she has been the busiest of bees, including celebrating her birthday, so I’ve decided to take one for the team and break the usual cycle of alternate blogs while things are relatively fresh in the mind, to save the eventual entry from being ‘we went to the mountains, it was nice’. But off to the mountains

This blog is brought to you by Barry. Some days writing these blogs are easier than others. In the case of the last entry I published, I...

This blog is brought to you by Ellie. I never have had a gift for words like Barry has, and I am still pretty much lost for words, but I...

This blog is brought to you by Barry. The history of cinema contains countless landmarks from visionary auteurs, advances in special...

This blog is brought to you by Ellie. Despite a wonderfully jam-packed day yesterday and quite a late night, New York waits for no-one....

This blog is brought to you by Barry. “How you doing?” The morning found us in good spirits and feeling well-rested despite the length...

This blog is brought to you by Ellie. START SPREADING THE NEWS!!! We’re leaving today - for New York City! That’s right, dear readers,...

This blog is brought to you by Barry. Day Two began with Ellie heading out on a solo mission to locate some pastries for our breakfast....

This blog is brought to you by Ellie. Barry’s birthday is coming up this week, or as we like to say in this house, “Barrymas”. His...