Kester EddySep 24, 20204 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 20, 20202 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 16, 20203 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 14, 20202 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 13, 20206 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 6, 20202 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 4, 20204 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 3, 20203 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 2, 20203 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 30, 20202 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 26, 20204 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 23, 20203 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 16, 20202 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...
Kester EddyAug 12, 20203 minOyunaa Makes it Home – well, OK, a Hotel close to Home Yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, I looked up Oyunaa Luvsan, the PhD student from Mongolia who you may remember was stuck in Hungary when we...
Kester EddyAug 9, 20202 minNew Covid-19 infections in Hungary rise by 43 Saturday-SundayUpdated at 17.30 - see end. A total of 43 new cases of people newly infected by the C-19 virus were reported in Hungary in the 24-hour pe...
Kester EddyAug 2, 20204 minBall Boys Sing the Blues as Tennis Association Sinks into Red Tennis matters in Hungary. Even if it's not the prime minister's favourite sport, many in the Magyar 'elite' - politicians and captains o...
Kester EddyJul 27, 20203 minHungarian Tourism & Covid-19 Border Controls – a Case of the Law of Unintended Consequences?About a fortnight back, the Hungarian government introduced a new system classifying countries “red-yellow-green” to refer to their perce...
Kester EddyJul 25, 20202 minMongolian Travails in MagyarországOyunaa Luvsan came to Hungary in February to study for a PhD as a mature student "in her 30s". After a few weeks, her university studies w...
Kester EddyJul 19, 20201 minCoronavirus infections in Hungary creeping up - 40 reported this weekendUPDATED Monday, 20/07 - See below The absolute numbers in Hungary remain thankfully low, and the envy of many national health services in...
Kester EddyJul 8, 20202 minThree Outstanding Statesmen, .... one Brave Politician-Philosopher - If you've Missed it, don't FretI hope the authorities do not prosecute yours truly for publishing fake news. I was taking this lot at face value. It was not a conferenc...
