THE ADVENTURES OF ELLIE AND BARRY
(AND HENNING THE TROLL)

This blog is brought to you by Ellie. Welcome to the final blog of the holiday! Thank you for coming on this journey with us, if you got this far! I write this from the comfort of my bed in Norwich, very jet-lagged, so please excuse anything nonsensical. The main reason for writing these is that I forget what I did yesterday on a normal day, so I can look back at these when I want to reminisce! It was our final day at Disney today and we were determined to make the most of it

This blog is brought to you by Barry Another early start, another Disneyland day! We were settled in to our regular theme park routine by this point, rising with the sun and rousing ourselves with a cup of tea and some of 7/11’s finest cereal. After completing 50% of our intended attractions on Monday our plan for the morning was to tackle things on the remaining ‘left side’ of the park. In comparison to the previous day it was a beautiful Southern California morning and we b

This blog is brought to you by Ellie. We came to California to escape the rain, which naturally means we woke up this morning to a downpour. We’d known this was coming so I’d purchased some rain ponchos yesterday (kindly modelled by Barry on day seven whilst escaping Tiana’s Bayou Adventure). There was no getting around it, we had theme park tickets and we were going to get the most out of them, dang it! We ventured out into the rain. The first stop on our agenda today was Di

“Night blooming Jasmine” This blog is brought to you by Ellie. Folks, I’m sorry to say that our time in Los Angeles has come to an end and we must go Southward. We’ve had the most excellent week here and have seen and achieved so much! My favourite is still the Hollywood sign hike and also, obviously, seeing Brendan Fraser holding a tiny dog. Apologies that we don’t have photo evidence of this, but we were trying to be respectful and were also pretty starstruck! Today we move

Staying out late, X’s on hands. Since when did you like punk rock bands? This blog is brought to you by Barry. In comparison to previous days, the agenda I’d set for poor Ellie’s legs today was far less challenging, almost verging on ‘relaxing’. After whipping up our now traditional breakfast of Trader Joe’s Pumpkin-Os (with added fruit) and a banging cup of tea, we were out of the door at 9am sharp for my longest drive of the holiday so far. The six point turn required to ge

This blog is brought to you by Ellie. Hello there, fellow travellers! Welcome to another day in sunny Los Angeles. Today was to be a day of two halves and a quite cultural one too, but first I had to drag my weary bones and muscles out of bed, which sounds easier than it was after the last two days of marching about. After a quick shower and breakfast, we were back out for a short drive down to La Brea Tar Pits. You may have seen the iconic image of the woolly mammoths stuck

This blog is brought to you by Barry. Yesterday featured early morning mountain climbs, heat, jet lag and challenging drives around twisty-turny streets in LA traffic. With all that taken into account, I’m sure it was little comfort to Ellie’s legs to know that when planning this trip, even I looked at our schedule for today and thought ‘this could be a bit ambitious’. Nevertheless, we were taking advantage of the fact that the massive shift in time zones had temporarily turn

Well I’m going out west where I belong… This blog is brought to you by Barry. As the discordant chorus of phone alarms woke me from my slumber in the bland but comfortable surroundings of Premier Inn Terminal 4, I stirred with the knowledge that there would be many hours and many, many miles until I would next be in bed. And yet, an early start for a holiday is better than a regular start for anything else, so with that mantra in our heads we were washed, dressed and on our w