Kester EddyJan 173 minCoronavirus: Hungary is Past Second-Wave Peak – But EU Vaccine Deliveries "too Slow" - PMO leader Hungary has come through the worst of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Gergely Gulyás, head of the Prime Minister's Office, decl...
Kester EddyJan 152 minLenin Inspires the Lady Comrades Snow Clearing Team - KesterTester 22Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Ever Wise - Looks Towards the Horizon, Avoiding the Details (like mere humans) to Focus on the Grand Vision - Bu...
Kester EddyJan 142 min A Best Bud Week Blast from the PastSomeone 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...
Kester EddyJan 122 min Chicken Pickin' - Washing Hangin'Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 11 - UPDATED A backstreet scene in a famous, historical city. I can't really remember taking th...
Kester EddyJan 95 minMy Short, Sweet Banking Career Leads to An Unexpected Intelligence OpportunityTales of a Teenage Spy - Chapter 42 - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Photo: It's still there today, although much modernised - Jose...
Kester EddyJan 52 min KesterTester21 - It's Budapest - But What and Where? 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...
Kester EddyDec 29, 20209 minIn a Land Famed for its Tourism - Nobody Went to this Town - (Updated)Tumbledown Backyard, Dog & Train - Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 10 Nobody? Well, that's not quite true, of course: and earlie...
Kester EddyDec 27, 20203 minCoronavirus: Latest Figures Raise Hopes - And Continue to Sow DoubtsThe much heralded arrival of usable vaccine – courtesy of the European Union and Brussels Bureaucracy, no less – together with the latest...
Kester EddyDec 25, 20203 min KesterTester 20 - Woman at Window, Budapest, 1993This 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...
Kester EddyDec 22, 20204 min Oradea / Nagyvárad / Großwardein, Romania, Dec 22, 1989 - UpdatedEvery Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) 09 - Street Party to Celebrate the Fall of Ceaușescu On this day, 31 years ago, the Romanian comm...
Kester EddyDec 20, 20204 minEvery Life Counts - But are they Accounting for Every Death?Coronavirus: Latest Official Data Looking Hopeful - but the Numbers Don't Stack Up All across Budapest, and I assume the country, govern...
Kester EddyDec 18, 20204 minWhat Colour is the Phone Box and What Did That Signify?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 oldie...
Kester EddyDec 15, 20207 minSyria: Dark, Brooding Ruin - Tumultuous Past, Tumultuous PresentEvery Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 08 - UPDATED This is a place where an emperor and many devotees once came to pay their respects...
Kester EddyDec 13, 20203 minCoronavirus in Hungary - Have we Passed the Peak?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 h...
Kester EddyDec 11, 20204 minRed Ball, Brown Dog, Grey Day, Bronze Bust - UpdatedKesterTester 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 thoug...
Kester EddyDec 8, 20206 minEvery Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 07 - UpdatedTrying 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...
Kester EddyDec 6, 20202 minCovid deaths at four-figure record makes Hungary third worst current performer in EULook, No Queues! Deaths related to the Covid-19 virus surged to 1,196 last week, breaking the four figurethreshold for the first time and...
Kester EddyDec 4, 20204 minA Pope (John Paul II), A Prime Minister (József Antall) and ... Who, Exactly?KesterTester 17 - Hungarian Parliament, August, 1991 - Updated A different KesterTester this week: not a where? Not a what? - but a who? ...
Kester EddyDec 2, 20208 minPortrait by Paraffin Lamp Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) - 06 - UPDATED I wish I'd found this shot a month ago, because it would have been 40 years more o...
Kester EddyNov 30, 20204 minOTP Hungarian Savings Bank & Me – My New Career Ends Almost As Soon as it BeginsTales of a Teenage Spy - Chapter 41 Photo: Which Bank to Choose? You didn't have to ponder long or hard back in the communist era as to w...
