After trying our hands at an explore prior to this, and failing miserably, I decided to text my mate to ask him if there was anything nearby that would be worth checking out. (We wasted so much time on the explore before this, we were tight for time as our last train was at 12:53am) 

 

So he suggested this place, and it was only two stops away on the tube so we thought we'd be able to go check this one out and make the train home, just so that we didnt get all the way up to london and come back to say we didnt even get a single explore under our belts! Jumped on the tube and got off at Holborn and then just walked up from there.

 

Access looked tricky, due to about 40 workmen working the nightshift doing excavations down in the courtyard. After 5 or so minutes scoping the place out and looking around, we found a way in and went for it, managed to find the stairwell and of course took it straight to the top! After a gruelling trip up 35 flights of stairs, and 1 ladder at the top, we had finally made it, and the end result was phenomenal. I dont think I can say Ive ever seen a view like it from the top of this building. 

 

After spending a good while up there just relaxing, taking photos and enjoying the view, I checked the time to realise, yup, we were gonna miss our last train even if we made our way down right that minute. When we finally started going down, we must have been spotted by some of the workmen, because they started coming up and down in the building elevators looking for us and we nearly bumped into a few poking round doorways on the way down. We frantically started rushing down the stairs so quick, trying not to get caught and get out as quickly as possible!

 

Eventually managing to dodge the workmen, we get to the bottom and start heading towards our exit, only to hear someone shouting "OIIIII" at us, turns out he must've spotted us in plain sight just as we were leaving, but it was too late, as we were already halfway down the street!  We then just went for a stroll to get out of the area, to realise we were lost, and at this point, 1 of our 3 out of our group shot off to get his train, leaving me and my mate stuck in London. We took this to our full advantage, and checked out another tower shortly after!