Up in the sky!

Hello my lovelies! :)

The last time I wrote about the annual pass for the Shard :) I kept telling about it to my friends, but all of them, but one, have forgotten about it. Nevermind, Phoebe got one and Saturday we decided to go up together....one of the last activities we do together as she is leaving England :( .....It is funny, I had the card last year too and been up many times, but never managed to go up when it was actually sunny. It was always raining or just cloudy...so Phoebe even mentioned maybe that's not a good idea to go up with me, but in the end we had beautiful weather! Indeed the sun really changes it all! It was so much better to be up there and having a view above gorgeous London! :) with all the old and new buildings and architecture.
Enjoy some of our pictures!

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[In Hungarian]

Szep napot Mindenkinek! :)

Utoljara amikor bejegyzest posztoltam, arrol volt szo, hogy a Shard (Szilank) nevu felhokarcolo, kilatojaba eves jegyekert lehetett sorban allni, potom penzert! :) Nekem meglett erre az evre is, de hat hiaba beszelek en a baratoknak, meg azok is akiker erdekelt volna a dolog is elfeledkeztek rola. Mindegy is, Phoebe viszont direkt bejott Londonba, hogy megkaparintson egyet :) es igaz, hogy mar sajnos nem sokaig lesz itt, mert lejar a vizuma egy heten belul, azert igy is kihasznalta es volt fent vagy 3-4szer. Ez volt az egyik utolso kozos napunk...es egyutt is felmentunk...habar egyszer a Phoebe azt mondta inkabb nem jonne velem fel, mert en bevonzom a rossz idot, mert eddig akarhanyszor is voltam fent mindig esett az eso, vagy totalisan be volt borulva. Na de szombaton gyonyoru napsuteses idonk volt! :) Es egyebkent tenyleg teljesen mas a kilatas a sok regi es uj epuletekkel, amikor sut a nap! Minden sokkal szebbe valik a jo oreg Londonban! :)

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It's Walkie-Talkie-Building-o-clock :)

What: The View from The Shard - London View Point 

Where: Shard London 69th Floor
When: every day, opening times changes with seasons
Price: £25.95 - £30.95

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Get your Shard Annual Pass for only £20.17

I follow someone on Instagram who advertised the annual pass for the Shard last year... and I was eagerly waiting for it this year too, when my friend Phoebe asked me if I was queuing for it or not.

So I would like to share with you what you need to do! Basically one entry to the Shard is £30.95. It is a bit steep, but it's ok...but hey this is only for one single visit, whereas the annual pass which will be for sale from tomorrow the 16th January will only cost £20.17 and will be valid for a full year! You can go up anytime and as many time as you want! I personally went up to the Shard Viewing Platform 8 times in 2016. So if we calculate a bit...that would have been almost £250, but instead it was only £20.16, what a great discount, isn't it!

So here are the details! ⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒
Basically from tomorrow 7am the tickets will be on sale. What I was told by a Shard personnel was that you needed to register online. Then you would receive either a confirmation text or confirmation email, with which you walk to the Shard entrance and collect your ticket.
One person can only buy one ticket and the tickets are named and photo will also be taken of you for future entrance.
Please also take a photo ID/passport with you, without that they won't be able to issue your ticket!
Be fast as there will only be 2017 tickets released! Once all tickets are sold, an announcement on their Twitter account will be made.

Now, it is not entirely clear if you need to queue in front of the entrance to get your ticket or not...last year I started queuing at 5:45am, but there was not a long queue and we got our tickets pretty fast. This time it seems queueing is not necessary...further on you don't need to be a London resident, but apparently need to be a resident of the UK.

Personally I think it is not well advertised and finding info about this on their website is difficult, so you have a good chance of getting hold of one of these tickets!

And once you have one, you can go up to the Shard anytime of the year...

to experience London from above.....

when it's cloudy....

....to be in the lift which takes you up to the 69th floor with such speed that your ear pops.....

To enjoy the view of St Paul's cathedral on a sunny day....

To just make amazing photos of London from above...

To see when the sky falls down on London....

And after the downpour, to experience rainbows and be on the same levels as them... :)

You can enjoy a 10%discount on food and drinks and on anything in the gift shop.

And lastly...just to have the experience of using a toilet on the 69th floor with full length windows watching gorgeous London, while peeing :) ...

Hope you all can get your hands on a ticket if you want to!

Good luck!

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It's pretty dang cold

Brrrr it's pretty dang cold!!! It has been almost a week that I got back to London and it seems I have brought the cold with me from Hungary. In Hungary it was pretty dang cold reaching up to... or shall I rather say down to minus 19 in my area! But due to the humidity and foggy evenings just before this coldness, beautiful frosted trees were created in my small town! :) Making the pictures fairy-tale like :) reminding us to the Disney cartoon Frozen. Let it go!!!.... Let it go!!! Haha!

But lovelies! It was so cold, that my flight had a 2-hour delay...delayed because the BA plane's door was frozen and they needed to defrost it....but hey...how will you do that quickly in minus 10 degrees? Exactly, so they could not open the side door for the luggages and no unloading or loading could have taken place...what a mess...
But as my flight was just before the big day of BA (11th Jan) not serving any complimentary food/snacks/drinks on any of their shorthaul EU flights...it was a merry flight and it seemed the staff just wanted to get rid of any extra pieces. So they were offering the snacks until they completely ran out! We could have plenty :) The staff was very friendly and smiling! :) and it was like 'Champagne to everyone!' :) serving booze by the litre.
Then in London what else than a well awaited tube strike was waiting for me, causing more trouble to get home....but who cares because it was not pretty dang cold anymore as I landed into plus 10 degrees :) although by now it's getting cold again and there should be snowing on today! Watch out and don't get frozen like these trees in the picture! :)
XoXo and have a lovely Friday you all inspite of being Friday the 13th! :)
(it was even hard to put a smile on in this cold weather haha)

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[In Hungarian]

Brrrr nagyon hideg van!!! Mar lassan egy hete annak, hogy visszajottem Londonba es ugy tunik, hoztam a borondomben a hideget magammal. Magyarban nagyon hideg volt, a homerseklet ahol en lakok elerte a -19 fokot is. De a hideg elotti kodos, nyirkos idonek koszonhetoen, mindent zuzmara boritott be ezaltal megszepitve a kopasz fakat a kis varoskamban :) a taj szinte mesebe illo volt. Minden olyan volt mint a Disney Jegvarazs mesejeben, haber a kepek nem adjak ezt vissza teljesen.

Na de olyan hideg volt, hogy kepzeljetek amikor repultem volna vissza a replu ket orat kesett azert mert a gep csomagteri ajtaja teljesen befagyott....es hat hogyan lehet egy befagyott ajtot feloldani a minusz 10 fokos hidegben? Nem tudom, de ez ket orajukba tartott...na de ennek ellenere a jarta maga egeszen vidam bulisra sikeredett. Ugy gondolom azert mert januar 11-e volt az utolso nap, hogy a British Airways ingyen adott etelt/italt az europai jaratok fedelzeten. Igy ahelyett, hogy a szemelyzet egyszer korbe ment volna a annyiszor osztogattak a kekszet, csipszet meg izesitett mogyorot amig abbol ki nem fogytak. Emellett az italt is liter szamra szolgaltak az embereknek :) bar lehet, hogy az emberek voltak inkabb reszegesek hehe :) Egyebkent a legi utaskiserok is nagyon kedvesek es vidamak voltak :) tobb emberrel beszelgettek is, csak ugy random. Mondom ez egy nagyon nem szokvanyos jarat volt :) a party jarat hihi!

Aztan megerkeztem Londonba es egy fantasztikus metrosztrajk vart amely meghosszabba tette a hazautamat, mivel az allomasok ido elott le lettek zarva, igy metroznom meg buszoznom kellett mindenfele atszallasokkal. Na de mindegy a lenyeg, hogy a szuper hidegbol plusz 10 fokba erkeztem :) bar azota itt is lehult, tegnap esett a ho es mar ma is esett!
Puszik! es annak ellenere, hogy pentek 13-a van, legyen csodas napotok es oltozzetek fel, hogy ne fagyjatok ugy meg mint a fak a kepeken!
(meg a mosoly sem ment a nagy hidegben haha )

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