KesterTester10 - Where in Budapest is this scene?
The Good Knight stands Guard - not that he did his job that well when it came to guarding this building in the early 1990s :) (That's a...
Observations from Hungary and Central Europe
The Good Knight stands Guard - not that he did his job that well when it came to guarding this building in the early 1990s :) (That's a...
Chapter39 – Sleaze & Spooks - Hotel Budapest, 1975 Dear Readers, I'm sorry for the delay for this next chapter. This blog owner is ......
Alas, another week of bad news on the coronavirus front, with several records broken. We had 1,374 new infections on Friday – a new peak,...
Enough is Enough! This site is supposed to be about Budapest, Hungary and THE REGION - but to date it has been decidedly...
The 100E express bus was a Godsend for the cost-sensitive traveller when the Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) introduced the service a...
KesterTester07 was a photo of Majakovszkij, now Király utca 25 So many clever cloggs managed to get this that I've decided the next...
and what is special about the building this frieze embellishes? But first up, this week I must congratulate the modest-sized (usually...
This morning, the government website reported 1,322 new coronavirus infections, a number that beats the previous worst-case 24-hour...
I don't suppose anyone outside the so-called 'hospitality industry' was aware of the frolics, the fraud and the downright skulduggery...
Hungary reported a record 6,024 new cases of coronavirus last week, bringing the total number of actively infected people to 18,137. ...
And what's that car and who owned it? OK, it's time to start getting a bit tough, as there are some really smarty pants looking on this...
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...
Hungary recorded 1,070 new cases of Coronavirus on Saturday, the government website reported on Sunday morning. ...
A bt of fun to begin the weekend. Well, you either know this one, or you don't, I suspect. While it is not far away from tourist...
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...
The Röszke–Horgoš motorway border on September 15, 2015, was a long, hot, tiring day for everyone involved - be they police, asylum...
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...
Sometime in the mid-1990s, I interviewed Philippa Reid, the then new, energetic head of Andersen Consulting* in Hungary, about the...
Following last week's KT04 - which proved easier than I ever imagined - we have something a bit more challenging, I hope, this week. This...
Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner It must have been in the winter of 1974-75 when, for various reasons I...