Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner ​As I related earlier [Chapter 31: BM – Letters of Fear and Dread – Ed], I'd...

​Just one week ago, a Czech-based friend emailed me after reading the latest post on the state of Covid-19 in Hungary. “Compared to here,...

A Quiet Country Town - But where is it? Might be Hungary, might be a neighbour. Photo taken in 1993, if I remember correctly. I had the...

They've had a makeover - but still 1950s Soviet design underneath - an M3 Metro Train Since BKK, the Budapest Transport Centre, hasn't...

László Hegedűs was the Man who Brought Western Rock to Hungary - including the likes of Carlos Santana, Jethro Tull, Depeche Mode and...

Govt 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...

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...

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...