This coat of arms, probably the last of its kind on a public building in Hungary, was removed in about 1995. But it wasn't easy to spot,...

He's no longer as renowned in the west today as in 1992 (when I originally penned this), but arguably this powerful...

Hungary has come through the worst of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Gergely Gulyás, head of the Prime Minister's Office,...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Ever Wise - Looks Towards the Horizon, Avoiding the Details (like mere humans) to Focus on the Grand Vision -...

Someone asked me for a copy of an old Budapest Week yesterday. Any issue, he said. I had a bagfull in one of my (other) junk rooms. I put...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 11 - UPDATED A backstreet scene in a famous, historical city. I can't really remember taking...

Tales of a Teenage Spy - Chapter 42 - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo: It's still there today, although much modernised -...

Photo: From about 1989-90, I think. This Hotel had recently been renovated at the time. But, to my surprise, I passed by before Christmas...

Tumbledown Backyard, Dog & Train - Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 10 Nobody? Well, that's not quite true, of course: and...

The much heralded arrival of usable vaccine – courtesy of the European Union and Brussels Bureaucracy, no less – together with the latest...

This can't be any old housing block facade, and it isn't. That would be unfair. - UPDATED So where is it? As a clue, I'll tell you that...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 09 - Street Party to Celebrate the Fall of Ceaușescu On this day, 31 years ago, the Romanian...

Coronavirus: Latest Official Data Looking Hopeful - but the Numbers Don't Stack Up ​All across Budapest, and I assume the country,...

KesterTester 19 - A Blast from the Telecom Past - Updated As it's the run up to Christmas, it's an easy one this week, at least for...

Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 08 - UPDATED This is a place where an emperor and many devotees once came to pay their...

Official Data in the Past Week is Hopeful As I left home at around 11.00 last Thursday I was surprised to find an oldish chappie in the...

KesterTester 18 - I had been struggling with what to post today. I had a super-hard one and a fairly easy one. And then ... well, I...

Trying to decide earlier on which photo to post today, I saw this and it made me think of The Small Faces and their 1968 hit "Lazing on a...

Look, No Queues! Deaths related to the Covid-19 virus surged to 1,196 last week, breaking the four figurethreshold for the first time and...

KesterTester 17 - Hungarian Parliament, August, 1991 - Updated A different KesterTester this week: not a where? Not a what? - but a who?...