Kester Eddy2 days ago2 minM3 Metro Re-opens - For the Budget-minded, Faster to the Airport AgainThey've had a makeover - but still 1950s Soviet design underneath - an M3 Metro Train Since BKK, the Budapest Transport Centre, hasn't go...
Kester Eddy4 days ago5 minRock 'n' Roll Will Never Die? - Budapest Week, Aug 1991László Hegedűs was the Man who Brought Western Rock to Hungary - including the likes of Carlos Santana, Jethro Tull, Depeche Mode and Que...
Kester Eddy7 days ago2 minCoronavirus Hungary: A Tough Autumn and WinterGovt Website Covid-19 Summary Today It's beginning to sound like a broken record (vinyl, as used to be) – and yes, I know it's similar or...
Kester EddyOct 113 minCoronavirus in Hungary - More Unwanted Record NumbersAlas, another week of bad news on the coronavirus front, with several records broken. We had 1,374 new infections on Friday – a new peak,...
Kester EddyOct 84 minOnce upon a time, the 100E Express Bus used to whizz us to and from the AirportThe 100E express bus was a Godsend for the cost-sensitive traveller when the Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) introduced the service a yea...
Kester EddyOct 23 minAnd So it Came to Pass - One Week after Hungary Stages a Test-Case International Football Match …This morning, the government website reported 1,322 new coronavirus infections, a number that beats the previous worst-case 24-hour perio...
Kester EddySep 271 minRecord 6,000 New Infections Last Week - Rate of Increase Falling Hungary reported a record 6,024 new cases of coronavirus last week, bringing the total number of actively infected people to 18,137. Thi...
Kester EddySep 244 minHungarians are Modest, Happy Guinea Pigs in Great Football Experiment The Great Day of Football Experiment has arrived! This evening, some 20,000 fans, including up to 3,000 from both Germany and Spain will...
Kester EddySep 202 minCoronavirus: daily infections top 1,000 for first time as cases jump 70% in one weekHungary recorded 1,070 new cases of Coronavirus on Saturday, the government website reported on Sunday morning. https://koronavirus.gov...
Kester EddySep 163 minPM Viktor Orbán's "War Plan" to counter CoronavirusI've just had an email from the Government Spokesman's Office that I thought I would share. Readers will be especially relieved to learn ...
Kester EddySep 142 minOn the afternoon of September 14, 2015, Röszke, south-east Hungary On September 14, 2015, five years ago today, a little after 4.00 pm as I recall, a woman, clad in traditional mid-east garb and with chi...
Kester EddySep 136 minManagement by Personal Whim as C-19 infections hit new records – and the UEFA Super CupSometime in the mid-1990s, I interviewed Philippa Reid, the then new, energetic head of Andersen Consulting* in Hungary, about the challe...
Kester EddySep 62 minCoronavirus infections soar in past week – Saturday sees new record of 510 in previous 24 hoursI really didn't want to write about Covid-19 infections again this week, but given the numbers at the peak of the first wave, recorded in...
Kester EddySep 44 min[Full Story] The Great, Spontaneous Motorway March - September 4, 2015Fifth Anniversary of the Great Refugee/Migrant/Asylum- Seeker "Crisis" - Part 3 Photo: The Flagbearer - some of the marching asylum seeke...
Kester EddySep 33 min5th Anniversary of the Great Refugee/Migrant/Asylum- Seeker "Crisis" - Part 2 -The Train Stops ShortPhoto: The train stopped short - 100 miles short - of Sopron and the Austrian border, but just right for Bicske and its holding camp for ...
Kester EddySep 23 minFifth Anniversary of the Great Refugee/Migrant/Asylum- Seeker "Crisis" - Part 1Five years ago this week, in September 2015, the Great Refugee (if you sympathise with them)/Migrant (if you don't)/Asylum Seeker (the mo...
Kester EddyAug 302 minHungary reports a record 292 Coronavirus Infections on Sunday morningHungary has reported 292 new C-19 infections this morning, a record number in 24 hours, the previous high being 210 reported on the morni...
Kester EddyAug 264 minTrain Ride to the Kunság - part 1Photo: They do exist - a container freight heads towards the Serbian border past the wayside station of Bösztör, 45 miles south of Budape...
Kester EddyAug 233 minCoronavirus: average daily new cases inch upwards, but active cases in Budapest jump 40%First of all, I should mention that I never intended to report regularly on the coronavirus situation in Hungary. It just so happened tha...
Kester EddyAug 162 minCovid-19 Infections Maintain New Levels, Consistently Higher Rates in Provinces Hungary saw 220 new Covid-19 infections last week, bringing the total since the jump in infections on 6th August to 352, or exactly 32 pe...
