Artsy Day in San Diego

28th April, Day 3 of American Adventure
On the 28th April, we ventured out of L.A and took a bus down to San Diego. We went to San Diego with no plan at all which wasn't really the smartest idea, because we got in and had no idea where to go and what to do. We finally decided to go get a coffee from Starbucks and plan from there, also there are a butt load of Starbucks like everywhere in America, its weird but wonderful at the same time (I love me some coffee).
Anywho, after having at look at 'things to do in San Diego' we decided to walk from Starbucks to Balboa Park.
On Google Maps it said it was like a ten minute walk which we thought was easy even in the heat, which at this point was already like high 20's and getting hotter, in the end it was a lot longer than 10 minuets and there was a hill.

By the time we got there, we didn't really know what we were going to be doing, so we started off by going to the Botanical Building because at least it was cooler in there. We got there by getting on some tram thing that was really cool and meant less walking. Then we walked around for a while looking at all the really nice buildings. Then as luck would have it we went into some art museum and there was a Dr. Suess exhibition which I thought was the most amazing thing ever as I love Dr. Suess. I don't care how old I get I will always love shit like that, we even got to colour in our own Cat in the Hat hats, which took place on a really small children's table but we didn't care it was funny. I had to educate my friend Faith though because she had never watched any movie that was done from a Dr.Seuss book:o

If I remember correctly after Dr.Seuss heaven, we finished looking round Balboa Park and went to get some food, after that we went back towards Starbucks and went to a supermarket to get dinner for later because we had an early the next day as we would be going on our first 8 day tour around the west part of America.
I haven't yet decided how I'm gonna go about talking about the tours so I'm just gonna wing it.
I've put a few pictures up from San Diego, hope you like. Ciao

From England to Los Angeles

26th April 2015, Day 1 of my American Adventure. I have finally decided to blog about my time in America. I thought doing this would be a good idea because all in all it would mean that my time in America will be forever within my reach if I ever want to reminisce about my travels. I've decided to merge two days into one post, this may happen in a few other posts because admittedly there were a couple days where me and my friend Faith (the person I went travelling with) decided to sleep and relax because seriously travelling is tiring.
I was travelling in the US and Canada for 7 weeks I believe, the majority of the time we did it all on our lonesome, but we also took part in two organised tours that took us around a lot of different places that we wouldn't of necessarily have seen in the space that we went and it would have cost a lot more.
I left my lovely bed in England at 4 in the morning on the 26th April to be picked up and driven to London Gatwick at 5am. The longest I had ever been away from my family and house was a week tops, so the fact that I was going away for 7 weeks was a huge deal, my mum even cried;)
I flew with Norwegian Airlines which was a first for me and it was honestly a very good airline with a lot of leg room and the windows were really cool, one of the pictures I have posted on this said post is of the landscape of Greenland and its blue because of the windows, you could like control the lighting in the window which was beyond cool and made my pictures look well good!

I finally arrived in Los Angeles after an 11 hour flight at like 6pm, it took around an hour to get to my hotel which was the Stay On Main Hotel, as soon as we got in we went straight up to our rooms and ordered a Domino's Pizza, by the way Dominos in America is nowhere near as good as Dominos in England, just saying.
    
27th April, Day 2 of American Adventure.

This was my first full day in L.A, which of course meant my camera had turned itself on in my bag and had run out of battery, so I used my iPhone for the day. Before we came to America we booked a lot of hop on hop off buses so we could get around to a lot of different places. So the day didn't start off great seeing as we had to run for the bus in L.A which is insane because how hot is it there I mean oh my god! I'm from England I like the cold.

We spent the day going to the Hollywood Sign, well looking at it from a telescope, I was not walking all the way up there. We went to the Chinese Theatre where everyone kept trying to sell me music and saying how amazing it was for them to meet someone from Australia. This happened all the time actually, so many Americans thought I was Australian, I don't in the slightest bit sound Australian.
We then drove round Beverley Hills, and went to Santa Monica Beach, where we went on a ferris wheel and then we ultimately realised that we were burnt like tomatoes because we were stupid and didn't put any suncream on! Finally we went to Venice Beach which was my favourite place, think we spent about half an hour watching everyone skateboarding, they were honest to god amazing and good looking:').
We finally decided to go back to the hotel at like 7pm cause jet lag was starting to set in, but then we got lost walking home so it took a lot longer than anticipated, we also found a supermarket called Wallgreens which in future became our favourite place to go for supplies and food!

I honestly didn't intend for this post to be so long but hey ho, anywho thanks for reading, I'm hoping to do more posts on my trip in the future. Hope you like the few pictures I put on here. Ciao.

Insurgent Movie Review

                                           

"Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves- and herself- while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love." - Insurgent, Product Description. 

On Thursday 26th April, I finally got around to watching the second film in the Divergent Trilogy, Insurgent! 

I read the first book Divergent in 2011 and continued to read the rest of the trilogy according to when they were released. Reading the trilogy that long ago meant that I was a little foggy on what happened in the books but I remembered the important parts, I also remembered how much I loved the books and how well written they were.

I highly recommend watching Divergent before watching Insurgent because the second film carries on straight after the ending of Divergent, which was Tris, Four, Caleb and Peter jumping on a train trying to escape Eric and the people working for Jeanine. 

Insurgent was directed by Robert Schwentke instead of Neil Burger who directed Divergent. This I thought made a big difference in the overall layout and look of the film, it meant there was a lot more CGI in this film then there was in Divergent, not that this is a bad thing because it works for a lot of films and a lot of people like CGI. I do but there was a lot in this film and it was a little overwhelming. 

I personally believe that if I hadn't read the books that I would have enjoyed the film a lot more than I did. I didn't not like the film, I was just very confused by a lot of what was happening because I thought it went very off base from what happened in the books, like the whole box opening process? Didn't know that bit and there was other things but I don't want to ruin it for others so I shan't go too much into it. A lot of the time I was thinking "Was this in the book?" Or "Did this really happen." 

I still thought that the casting was amazing and obviously I loved Shailene Woodley and Theo James's acting. I especially loved the chemistry between the two in Insurgent because they were much more open about their relationship. But most of all.... I loved Miles Teller in this film, I loved his snarky comments and his overall demeanour and I really hope he is in Allegiant a lot, like he was in Insurgent. On the other hand I didn't like the casting for Four's mother, only because of the fact of how young she looked but I think it was only because Four is meant to be 19-20 so I guess it works, it's just Theo James is like 30 something so it took a while to get used too. 

I really loved all the action in the film, there was never a dull moment to think it was boring and I'm very excited about the next one. I would defiantly recommend watching Insurgent, if you are a fan of Divergent but be prepared for it to be quite different from the books and the first film. 

Hope you enjoyed this post, I have no idea what I will be post next. 

Cya!

New Start.

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing". 
I'm hoping to apply this quote to my commitment to doing my blog. Originally this blog entailed of me writing about fashion and beauty, followed by a couple of Book and TV reviews. It was also originally called Dare To Be Different, basically I'm changing a lot of things around on my blog.

My blog is now called Travelling Bookworm (obvs) and will include posts on book reviews and in April I will be blogging about my travels as I'm going on a 7 week trip traveling around America which I'm hoping to blog about as much as I can on the go. I'm going on two tours. One in the West Side of America and one in the East, then we are doing the majority of the rest of America ourselves (we meaning me and my friend Faith).

The map on the left is the East side Tour and the map on the right is the West side Tour, in all honesty there will be a lot of time on different coaches so hopefully I will have plenty of time to blog about my travels and I will hopefully get loads of good pictures which I'm very excited about.

I think I might do a couple blog posts this week or next week depending on what I'm doing, I think I will especially do a review on Insurgent- Divergent's next film which I'm very excited about seeing on Thursday.

Julie Kagawa- The Eternity Cure review.

"I was a monster who killed and preyed on human life; I could never escape that, but at least I could choose what kind of lives I took."
This is the 2nd book of the trilogy by Julie Kagawa. Seeing as how much I enjoyed and cried about the first book I didn't think that it could get any better/ more upsetting than the first one but I was wrong it definitely topped it by a mile.

From Allie Sekemoto finding out that the evil vampire Jackal was her blood brother and other interesting revelations she set out to find her sire Kanin to help him escape from the likes of Sarren a twisted and beyond evil vampire who wanted to see the end of Kanin and his offspring.
This book again was really well written and easy to follow but also  kept you on your toes throughout the whole book.
After leaving Zeke in Eden Allie was once again alone looking for Kanin that was until she bumped into a familiar face who agreed to go with her to find her sire and to help find and stop Sarren from releasing  a deadly disease.
This lead Allison back to where it all began New Covington, only to discover that Sarren had released the disease to the people of New Covington turning them into zombie like people 'bleeders', the 'bleeders' threatened the existence of all human beings and could lead to extinction for all vampires. The second book shows more of Allisons human side in the way she cares more and more but the vampire inside her also begins to roar more because of the anger built up inside her which I think is good because it makes her overall character more interesting to read about.

Throughout the book Allie is left with more and more heartbreak loosing the people she most cares about,meeting familiar faces and new faces.  Sarren then pushes it too far and kills someone she cares for very much pushing her off the edge sending her into a rage and loosing her human self with the monster within. The book ends on a cliff hanger and in a bad state meaning a big excitement for the next and final book which wont be out for a while which is really upsetting for me because I desperately want to know what happens but if the 2nd one was better than the first I cant wait for the 3rd one.

Julie Kagawa- The immortal rules review.

"Sometime in your life, Allie Sekemoto, you will kill a human being."
I have only read a couple of vampire books and "The Immortal Rules" is by far the best , I really like reading about vampires because of the danger and adventure involved in the book and to be honest you cant go wrong with a book that involves vampires. I was influenced to buy this because it said that Hunger Games fan would enjoy it and they were right.

The story is based around the character Allie/Allison Sekemoto a simple Unregistered 17 year old girl fighting for survival against starvation,disease and most of all the vampires. The book is based in the future where people know the existence of vampires and they rule the humans,Allie was an Unregistered human meaning she could keep her blood and her distance from the vampires but had to struggle to keep her and her gang alive. The story really kicks in when Allie and her gang of Stick,Rat and Lucas venture out beyond the wall where the rapids rome freely (the hungry,crazed animals that have a mind of there own). This is where Allison's Sekemoto's adventure begins from her saving her friend Sticks live and almost dying from the rabids until a vampire named Kanin gave her a choice to become a vampire, he then taught her the ways of a vampire.The way Julie Kagawa expressed in such detail about Allie's training it made the book that much more interesting. Further into the book her mentor gets kidnapped by an evil vampire named Sarren. Allison is then left alone again to venture into the world without anybody to help.

She isn't alone for long because she runs into a group of people who are wondering the world to find a vampire and rabid free island called Eden. I personally think this is when the real story begins but also changes because of how it seemed like an action and adventure book which it is but I also think it turns into a love story when Allison meets Zeke Crosse the son of Jeb the man who is leading them to Eden. I begin to admire Allie's strength a lot more in different ways because of how she knows not to help this group because it could end in disaster but she cares too much for them too leave, and the way she cares for Zeke is really interesting to read about because of her mentor Kanin telling her vampires are monsters.
The book continues with kidnapping, murders and betrayal you also learn the true meaning of why Jeb is being hunted and the truth about Eden. But I loved reading about how Allie and Zeke's relationship grows throughout the book even when he finds out what she is.

I finished this book in a couple days it wasn't text heavy but was still very detailed and interesting to read and anyone with similar interests in books to me would really love to read it. The next blog post is on the 2nd book of the trilogy The eternity cure.

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