25/10/2016 / Lifestyle

Getting back into the blogging world

This is the first blog post I've posted since last October - it's been quite a break! There are various reasons for this break and I could make up excuses to why I haven't been blogging but the bottom line is I stopped enjoying it. Other factors included starting university; being in a new city and trying to get into the swing on university life did have an impact but if I'd really wanted to carry on blogging I could have. I didn't particularly want people from university knowing about my blog but again this is something that could have been overcome. But as I said the main reason was simply that I didn't enjoy it anymore. I didn't want to write any posts so I stopped.

However, now I'm ready to start again. After doing some travelling this summer I started reading more travel and lifestyle blogs rather than beauty and fashion. I discovered I didn't hate blogging, I just wasn't in love with what I had been writing about. What I really enjoyed reading about was travel and lifestyle and this was also what I wanted to start to write about. This blog was initially just a beauty blog but now I want to focus on these topics; topics I have a real passion for.

I realised this half way through my third year at university but have only know decided to relaunch my blog. This is partly because to be able to write about travel I felt I had to first do some travelling! So that's what I've done this past summer. Obviously I didn't travel so I could write a blog I travelled anyway but it's given me the perfect opportunity to start afresh. I'm excited to blog about my travel experiences, I'm also happy that I can get back into blogging.

I've already started getting back into the social media side of blogging but the actual blogging part has taken a bit longer. I'm currently working on blog posts about my recent Interrail trip and will hopefully be able to share these very soon. I'm also looking into improving my blog layout by getting a new design. Initially I was going to wait until I had my new design before I started blogging again but have decided that I may as well start blogging whilst I decide what design I want. So this blog post is basically a lot of waffle that tells you that I'm back with a new direction for the blog and that blogging will continue shortly!

Sophie

04/10/2015 / New York , Travel

New York | Photo Diary Day Five

On our fifth and last full day we ended to Central Park, our hotel was only about a ten minute walk so we stopped for coffee then headed there. As you can probably tell from the photos it was pretty cold when we went even though it was the beginning of April we were still wearing coats and scarves.

We ended to Belvedere Castle first then made our way down the park towards the strawberry fields and the fountain area which if you're a Gossip Girl fan will know is the area where Blair and Chuck got married.

The Alice in Wonderland statue was one of my favourite things in Central Park, we managed to see it while it was quite quiet so managed to get some pictures without people standing in the way!

Sophie x

27/09/2015 / New York , Travel

New York | Photo Diary Day Four

I've finally got round to uploading another New York post, my summer was pretty hectic and I'm planning on blogging about my adventures so there will be quite a few travel posts coming up.

On our fourth day in New York we got up early and headed to the Statue of Liberty, it was pretty grey and windy so probably wasn't the best day to go there but we had already booked. We went up the Statue of Liberty but not to the crown as that was more money and we didn't think it would be worth it. The views of lower Manhattan were great apart from the lack of sun! We then headed over to Ellis Island where they have a museum all about immigrants who travelled to America. It didn't actually take as long as we thought to do both of the islands and we soon headed back to mainland to get some lunch.

We had lunch at a restaurant called The Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog which served quite traditional english food, it served a lot of cocktails too but we didn't end up trying any. After lunch we headed to the 9/11 memorial I didn't take any photos of this. We then headed back to our hotel and had a chilled evening watching American TV.