Kester EddyJul 45 min"The Night Ferry", France, 141Rs and table football - July, 1970Introduction: When I was eight, in 1960, a kid down the street where I lived explained how he went to the local railway station and colle...
Kester EddyJul 43 minChapter 4 - So How did it come to this?In those days we lived in Budapest's district XII, on what was then called Mártinovics Hill - nowadays that's Kiss Swáb Hegy, literally L...
Kester EddyJul 32 minIntroductionHello, glad you're here. It's Monday, July 6 2020 now, and I've just been told off by one of my friends in Slovenia that my 'about' secti...
Kester EddyJul 32 minChapter 3 Pride Cometh ...Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner For a brief moment, I glimpsed my mother's face as she opened the door: next ...
Kester EddyJul 23 minBudapest Restricts Brits' Access by Stealth(Please see later story "Good News for Foreigners with Hungarian Residence Permits – it seems" if you are reading this for practical advi...
Kester EddyJul 23 minChapter 2 – My first political skirmish – aged nine“Gábor, tell me, who told you that Jewish, and communist and Russian people are bad? Where did you hear such things? Because I'd really l...
Kester EddyJul 21 minChapter 1 – The happiest days of your lifeTales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner It was spring, and the kind of day when, as a kid, you just long to be out in...
Kester EddyJul 22 minA Kelenföld flat reveals its secrets - Preface 02Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner So began my relationship with Gábor Rimner, a polyglot Hungarian who at the t...
Kester EddyJun 182 minTales of a Teenage Spy – The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner - Preface 01Tales of a Teenage Spy - The Life and Times of Gábor Rimner Preface by Kester Eddy One morning in late November, 1991, I had just finishe...
Kester EddyMay 203 minThe Apparatchik in a Smoke-filled RoomA tribute to Sir John Birch, British Diplomat, who died last month in the UK. John was a good man if ever there was one, who put his hear...
