I’ve realised that whenever I plan a trip, I like to include a visit to a charming usually second-hand bookshop. You know the ones. Those unpretentious neighbourhood…
The tinsel’s packed away, Elf is back on the shelf, the mulled wine’s all gone, only orange creams left in the Quality Street tin. Yep folks, that’s well…
Tempting isn’t it? What with lockdown 2.0 almost in full swing, Brexit lingering like an unwanted party guest, the non-stop doom-gloom-Trump-Biden-Coronavirus-news-story-pedalling conveyor belt – and not forgetting that…
A treasure hunt around Florence to spot these curious miniature wine windows is the exact kind of activity I would plan a holiday around… What’s a wine window…
After Taormina (where we made this X-rated discovery), our Sicilian road trip was coming to an end and it was time to head back to Palermo, sigh. But…
Last September, the Ellie & Co investigative team of two spent a couple of weeks eating and drinking our way around northern Sicily. When we weren’t stuffing our…
Need to go here immediately! This insanely beautiful, treehouse-looking fantasy is an art gallery in Mexico. That’s right, I said gallery.IK LAB, is a piece of art in…
Marrakech was a complete culture-shock tonic. I’ve a few blog posts lined up on the trip with lots of curious tips, kicking off with this one on our…
In case you’ve been looking for a reason to add the small African country, Burkina Faso, to your travel wishlist, might I suggest this one…? Set at the…