Sundown Cruise on the Danube - Updated
KesterRester - Time Up for Perspectives Budapest Photo: A Danube pleasure boat at the end of a U-turn - which was somehow symbolic of the...
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Our Day in L’viv, and how my Son Nailed a Fraudster
Beware Les Femmes fatales blondes (des billets) in L'viv Ukraine - Especially in Hot Pants Photo - Tanya Rides the Tram - Alias L’viv...
The Homeward Trudge - Another Night Shift Ends
Every Picture Tells A Story (Don't it?) 28. Early days - Three months in South Africa, 1975 Photo: From memory, this is near the small...
Who? When? Where? Visiting Foreign Leader Meets Weirdo Compatriots in Budapest 'By Chance' - Updated
KesterTester 40 - The smiling chap in the middle shouldn't be too difficult - the location also maybe identifiable, but it then gets...
Condensation Trails in a Remote Valley - A Night Under a Tree Pays Dividends (Updated)
Every Picture Tells a Story [Don't it?] 27 - Far from the Madding (Tourist) Crowd, July 75 I fell in love with this country when I first...
Military Exile in Nagykanizsa & Too Much Monkey Business
Tales of a Teenage Spy - Chapter 45. The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo: a plaque celebrating the poet Sándor Weöres on the wall...
An Equestrian Statue of a Ruler from the Late Middle Ages - Who (that's easy) & Where? - Updated
KesterTester 39 - This leader had a name for waging conquering wars, supporting the arts & sciences and raising taxes. I believe he also...
A Priest, a Holy Bible, in an Ancient Text - But What Denomination & Where is this? (Updated)
Every Picture Tells a Story [Don't it?] 26: As I took this photo, unbeknown to me, an unholy cloud of dust was rising in the skies above...
You're in the Army Now - Fun & Games as a Military 'Scribe' in the Dobó István Barracks, Újpest
Tales of a Teenage Spy - Chapter 44. The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo: a motley squad on duty in the Dobó István Barracks (not...
Sweet-Toothed Nosztalgia - Ice Cream, Whipped Cream & Chocolate Topping - HUF 6 a Dollop! (Updated)
KesterTester 38 - Those Were the Days (When Dentists Knew their Jobs were for Life :)) Straightforward Tester this week - where and when...
If it's a Tough Life as a Politician (see KT43) - It's Tougher Still as a Street Seller in this City
Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 25 - It's Authentic Street Food Here - Updated Photo: This lady graced a page in the Economist...
I Switch back to Foreign Trade - and an Official Letter is Delivered as my 24th Birthday Approaches
Tales of a Teenage Spy - Chapter 43 - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo; The Medimpex building on fashionable Vörösmarty tér. It...
Hear No Evil - And, Most Definitely, See No Evil - Updated
KesterTester 37 - It's a Tough Life, Being a Central European Politician, Especially in a Democracy, having to Fight Elections and all...
Summer Evening, Last Train, Walk Home
Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't It?) 24 - UPDATED This photo epitomises my experiences in this country in the first half of the 1970s....
Antall, Havel, Iliescu Face Listeners' Questions on BBC World Service - plus the "Slovenian Gandhi"
Photos: (Left to Right) Hungarian PM József Antall, Czechoslovak President Václav Havel and Romanian President Ion Illiescu. Photos from...
A Monument then Defaced, now Removed - where was it and what did it Commemorate?
KesterTester 36 - I suppose this might now be in the Statue Park - and one of the less-noticed exhibits, I suspect, not being one of the...
Cultural Differencies & Human Communalities
On the Third Night - Syria, a Country where You Didn't Talk Politics - part IV (EPITDASI 23) Photo: Commerce by Pony and Cart. A quiet...
Romania Offers Lifeline to Sturgeon - Bans Fishing and Sale of Wild Sturgeon Fish and Fish Products
A short piece of good news for the day from the world of conservation. Photo: Lockdown's nearly over for one fish! László Berzi-Nagy,...
Summer's (almost) In - Lockdown's Eased - and we Love it! But will there be a Price to Pay?
Infections are down, Vaccinations are up - but with the exception of tiny Gibraltar, Hungary Tops Global Covid Death Rate It's party time...
Six CEE PMs/Presidents, all in Budapest & all Blokes (Sorry Ladies, but this was the 1990s) -Updated
KesterTester 35 - One a former dissident playwright, one a former Communist Big-Shot in charge of his country's second city. Not sure...