Kester EddyOct 18, 20202 minCoronavirus Hungary: A Tough Autumn and WinterGovt 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...
Kester EddyOct 16, 20202 minKesterTester10 - 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 c...
Kester EddyOct 14, 20205 minChapter39 – Sleaze & Spooks - Hotel Budapest, 1975Chapter39 – Sleaze & Spooks - Hotel Budapest, 1975 Dear Readers, I'm sorry for the delay for this next chapter. This blog owner is ... ...
Kester EddyOct 11, 20203 minCoronavirus in Hungary - More Unwanted Record NumbersAlas, another week of bad news on the coronavirus front, with several records broken. We had 1,374 new infections on Friday – a new peak,...
Kester EddyOct 9, 20201 minKesterTester09 - Where in CEE-SEE is this Scene? Enough is Enough! This site is supposed to be about Budapest, Hungary and THE REGION - but to date it has been decidedly Budapest-centric...
Kester EddyOct 8, 20204 minOnce upon a time, the 100E Express Bus used to whizz us to and from the AirportThe 100E express bus was a Godsend for the cost-sensitive traveller when the Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) introduced the service a yea...
Kester EddyOct 5, 20202 minKesterTester07 - addendum - This is where the scene isKesterTester07 was a photo of Majakovszkij, now Király utca 25 So many clever cloggs managed to get this that I've decided the next Keste...
Kester EddyOct 4, 20203 minKesterTester08 - Where in Budapest is this scene – and what is special about the building this frieze embellishes? But first up, this week I must congratulate the modest-sized (usually abo...
Kester EddyOct 2, 20203 minAnd So it Came to Pass - One Week after Hungary Stages a Test-Case International Football Match …This morning, the government website reported 1,322 new coronavirus infections, a number that beats the previous worst-case 24-hour perio...
Kester EddySep 28, 20205 minChapter 38 - Night-Shift Shenanigans – Hotel Budapest, 1975I don't suppose anyone outside the so-called 'hospitality industry' was aware of the frolics, the fraud and the downright skulduggery tha...
Kester EddySep 27, 20201 minRecord 6,000 New Infections Last Week - Rate of Increase Falling Hungary reported a record 6,024 new cases of coronavirus last week, bringing the total number of actively infected people to 18,137. Thi...
Kester EddySep 26, 20202 minKesterTester07 - Where in Budapest is this scene?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 s...
Kester EddySep 24, 20204 minHungarians are Modest, Happy Guinea Pigs in Great Football Experiment 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...
Kester EddySep 20, 20202 minCoronavirus: daily infections top 1,000 for first time as cases jump 70% in one weekHungary recorded 1,070 new cases of Coronavirus on Saturday, the government website reported on Sunday morning. https://koronavirus.gov...
Kester EddySep 18, 20201 minKesterTester06 - Where is this Budapest Scene?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 territor...
Kester EddySep 16, 20203 minPM Viktor Orbán's "War Plan" to counter CoronavirusI've just had an email from the Government Spokesman's Office that I thought I would share. Readers will be especially relieved to learn ...
Kester EddySep 15, 20207 minMassive, Menacing, Rust-Brown Gates: the Hungary-Serbia Border Slams Shut The Röszke–Horgoš motorway border on September 15, 2015, was a long, hot, tiring day for everyone involved - be they police, asylum seeke...
Kester EddySep 14, 20202 minOn the afternoon of September 14, 2015, Röszke, south-east Hungary 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 chi...
Kester EddySep 13, 20206 minManagement by Personal Whim as C-19 infections hit new records – and the UEFA Super CupSometime in the mid-1990s, I interviewed Philippa Reid, the then new, energetic head of Andersen Consulting* in Hungary, about the challe...
Kester EddySep 11, 20201 minKesterTester05 - Where is this Budapest Scene?Following last week's KT04 - which proved easier than I ever imagined - we have something a bit more challenging, I hope, this week. This...
