Last Updated on January 5, 2025
Ellen Albanese has never forgotten watching the New York City skyline disappear as she set out on a five-day ocean crossing to Europe on the iconic French Line flagship the SS France. The year was – well, never mind – but she was a college junior bound for Paris to live with a French family and study at the Sorbonne. The biggest lesson she learned that year was that she loved to travel.
A career journalist, Ellen eventually found a way to combine her love of travel and her love of writing. She has visited England, Wales, Ireland, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Iceland, New Zealand, and Fiji, among others. She also enjoys experiencing the wildly varying landscapes and traditions closer to home, and writes frequently about California, the Southwest, Florida, and New England.
Ellen has covered the Thermal Explorer Highway in New Zealand, one sculptor’s mission to recognize victims of the Nazi regime all across Europe, the spectacularly unhealthy but oddly addictive foods at the Florida State Fair, and what draws vacationers to a New England nudist colony. Her stories and photographs have appeared in the Boston Globe, Cape Cod Life magazine, AAA World, and AAA Northeast, among other publications.
A Massachusetts native now living on Cape Cod, Ellen holds a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a master’s degree from Boston University. She is an accredited member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), where her travel writing has garnered several awards
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