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

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. Some days writing these blogs are easier than others. In the case of the last entry I published, I couldn’t wait to get the words out as it would be a chance to describe the day I’d asked Ellie to marry me. Unsurprisingly for the happiest day of my life, I couldn’t wait to relive it for anyone that cared to read. Other days tend to be a bit more difficult to put together but it’s still a chance for me to try and walk others through our ex

This blog is brought to you by Barry. The history of cinema contains countless landmarks from visionary auteurs, advances in special effects and storytelling that have captivated audiences worldwide and provided scholars with material to be analysed and scrutinised for generations to come. And of course the pinnacle of these is the 1998 Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail, where in the words of Joey Tribbiani, they ‘get mail and stuff’. While this introduction