Kester Eddy
Once upon a time, the 100E Express Bus used to whizz us to and from the Airport
The 100E express bus was a Godsend for the cost-sensitive traveller when the Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) introduced the service a...
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And 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...
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Record 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. ...
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Hungarians 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...
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Coronavirus: daily infections top 1,000 for first time as cases jump 70% in one week
Hungary recorded 1,070 new cases of Coronavirus on Saturday, the government website reported on Sunday morning. ...
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PM Viktor Orbán's "War Plan" to counter Coronavirus
I've just had an email from the Government Spokesman's Office that I thought I would share. Readers will be especially relieved to learn...
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On 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...
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Management by Personal Whim as C-19 infections hit new records – and the UEFA Super Cup
Sometime in the mid-1990s, I interviewed Philippa Reid, the then new, energetic head of Andersen Consulting* in Hungary, about the...
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Coronavirus infections soar in past week – Saturday sees new record of 510 in previous 24 hours
I 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...
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[Full Story] The Great, Spontaneous Motorway March - September 4, 2015
Fifth Anniversary of the Great Refugee/Migrant/Asylum- Seeker "Crisis" - Part 3 Photo: The Flagbearer - some of the marching asylum...
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5th Anniversary of the Great Refugee/Migrant/Asylum- Seeker "Crisis" - Part 2 -The Train Stops Short
Photo: The train stopped short - 100 miles short - of Sopron and the Austrian border, but just right for Bicske and its holding camp for...
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Fifth Anniversary of the Great Refugee/Migrant/Asylum- Seeker "Crisis" - Part 1
Five years ago this week, in September 2015, the Great Refugee (if you sympathise with them)/Migrant (if you don't)/Asylum Seeker (the...
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Hungary reports a record 292 Coronavirus Infections on Sunday morning
Hungary has reported 292 new C-19 infections this morning, a record number in 24 hours, the previous high being 210 reported on the...
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Train Ride to the Kunság - part 1
Photo: They do exist - a container freight heads towards the Serbian border past the wayside station of Bösztör, 45 miles south of...
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Coronavirus: 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...
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Covid-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...
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Oyunaa 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...
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New Covid-19 infections in Hungary rise by 43 Saturday-Sunday
Updated 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...
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Ball 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...
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Hungarian 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...
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