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Wildlife Spotting: Parakeets
If you unexpectedly ask someone to enumerate a few animals that live in London, pretty much in symbiosis with human beings, the answer will most probably sound something like: “squirrel, goose, fox”. These seem to be the obvious answers up until we approach any random park and we notice these loudly squawking, avocado-green coloured creatures gliding fast above our heads. Ha valakit váratlanul megkérünk, hogy soroljon fel néhány Londonban, az emberekkel szimbiózisban együtt élő állatot, akkor a válasz valószínűleg olyasmi lesz, hogy “mókus, liba, róka”. És valóban ezek lennének az egészen egyértelmű válaszok, egészen addig míg emberünk be nem teszi a lábát valamelyik parkba, és át nem suhannak a feje…
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55 Broadway – London’s First Skyscraper
After a long break due to serious lack of time and energy, I feel the power again to return to blogging and keep both documenting for myself and presenting to you guys those places that are worth seeing, despite the fact that they aren’t necessarily over-hyped. For example 55 Broadway, London’s first skyscraper, which is located above the St. James’s park tube station, it was built in Art Deco style, it’s being used as the headquarters of TFL to this day, and I’ve never noticed it before. Which is pretty lame, because even though I love architecture I, like many other people in this city, tend to rush around London staring mainly…
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Luci, the Wayfaring Cat
Lukrécia, a.k.a Luci was born on the summer of 2005 together with her three other siblings. She wasn’t very lucky though, because she didn’t start breathing at the moment she was born. In the end my sister, Tita, managed to resuscitate her using warm water and a towel. The lack of oxygen must have had an effect on her little brain, because even when she became a fully grown cat, she still kept behaving like a kitten: running and jumping around like crazy, sneaking around when afraid, getting bloody scared from every unexpected movement people made, and never learning to properly meow. Instead, she usually purred and said “grooo” when…
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Going Underground: Clapham South Deep-level Shelter
As part of the Hidden London tours organised by the London Transport Museum curious visitors have the chance to go down and walk around the Clapham South deep-level shelter, which is one of the eight Second World War civilian deep shelters built in London. Walking around the different rooms, halls and tunnels 30 metres deep under ground while we could regularly hear the Northern line trains passing above us was quite and experience, but I think the stories we heard during the one hour tour were even more interesting. A Londoni Közlekedési Múzeum által szervezett Rejtett London túrák egyike során a kíváncsi népeknek lehetősége adódik a Clapham Southnál található világháborús…
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Photographica International Camera Collectors Fair
Myself and a few friends recently had a chance to check out the Photographica International Camera Collectors Fair, which is organised once a year by the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. Even though I am quite new to this whole photography topic, and I am just scratching the surface of this massive amount of knowledge about the subject, it felt like this would be an interesting event to visit. Nemrég néhány barátommal alkalmunk adódott ellátogatni a Photographica nevű nemzetközi kamera vásárra, ami évente egyszer kerül megrendezésre a Nagy-britanniai Fotó Gyűjtők Klubja által. Annak ellenére, hogy nagyon újnak számítok a témában, és ennek a hatalmas tudáshalmaznak épp csak hogy a felületét érintgetem, ez az…
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Spring Special: Bluebell Carpets in Kew Gardens
Yes, it is spring, and it is warm, and it is sunny. And it is bluebell season. 🙂 Last week I spent quite a while googling the best spot in or very close to London, where we can see the famous bluebell carpets. After browsing through lots of those ‘Top eight…”, “Top ten…”, “… plus one” lists that all suggested locations far away from London, I bumped into the obvious: Kew Gardens! I’ve never been to Kew Gardens anyway, so this was the perfect time to make up this deficiency. Biza, tavasz van, és meleg, és napsütés. Ja meg harangvirág-szezon. 🙂 A múlt hét folyamán meglehetősen sok időt töltöttem Londonban vagy Londonhoz…
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Coffee and Cake at the London Cat Village
There are only two kinds of people in the world: the happy ones, who own at least one cat, and the less happy ones, who don’t have cats. Of course, there are some people who don’t have cats and they think this is the way to be, but they just live in a constant delusion. Earth is an amazing place because demand always creates its own supply. In this case for example, a special coffee shop has been invented where people can enjoy both a hot beverage and the company of these furry creatures. It’s important to keep in mind though, that if hundreds of people come in to this…
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Wildlife Spotting: The Deer of Richmond Park
Every time I mentioned that I would really like to go to Richmond, Will’s answer was constantly pushing the limits of my non existing patience: ‘even though Richmond is stunning all year long, the very first time you see it should be in the summer’. After many weekends when I thought it is already summer enough and I really wanted to go and see the famous deer but I always got the same answer: ‘even though the weather is ALMOST perfect, we should wait a bit more’, one Friday evening he stood there with a huge grin on his face and said: ‘Tomorrow is supposed to be very hot. We are going…
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MCM London Comic Con
I am an extremely shy person when it comes to try and take photos of people I don’t know, and every time I actually convince myself to do it, I am prepared to run, if the subject notices my ‘suspicious’ behaviour, and tries to come after me. It’s also worth mentioning, that my knowledge of any kind of anime, manga, video game, sci-fi, or cosplay is very limited, but I thought, spending a day at the UK’s biggest modern pop culture weekend can be both fun, and a good exercise to put myself out there, and take a few shots. Luckily, these people are all lovely – and extremely exhibitionist -, and they love to…
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Going Underground: Jubilee Line at Charing Cross Station
It is a well-known fact, that London has a serious tube and tunnel system, and many parts of it are disused and abandoned. Over time more and more tube lines were constructed, extended, transformed, moved, and sometimes closed. Usually people are not allowed to visit these places, but sometimes the London Transport Museum opens them for a short period of time, so the most curious Londoners have a chance to get an insight. Köztudott tény, hogy London komoly metró- és alagúthálózattal rendelkezik, és ennek meglepően sok része teljesen kihasználatlanul, zárt ajtók mögött szomorkodik. Az idők folyamán a metróhálózatok egyre csak gyarapodtak, meghosszabbodtak, építkezések miatt átalakultak, és néha teljesen bezártak. Többnyire egyáltalán nem…
