As Hungary, like much of Europe, Sizzles - it reached a record 40.7C (105.2F) yesterday on the border with Serbia - a tester to stretch the skills of the sleuthest of sleuthers
Photo: Man in a Budapest pool soaks up the radiation - probably July-August 1992
This one could be a bit tough, but I'm sure the best sleuthers out there will scratch their heads and come up with something.
Which baths is it? What's his name and occupation? How much were his sunglasses and what was he thinking as this shutter was clicked?
You can put your answers in the comments below, as I've no idea of what they are (except, perhaps, the baths - but I'm not even sure of that).
I'll buy the writer of the best package of answers two beers for this one - when it's a bit cooler :)
UPDATE: 20.05 on 14th August
I have just reveived this from Mr Gábor Rimner, taken in Budapest District I earlier today.
This thermometer is indicating 48C as far as I can make out. Of course, this is sitting in the sun, so I assume it is not the air temperature around it, but still it ain't alf 'ot.
UPDATE 2: Results
Unfortunately, this spoof tester didn't attract many entries.
Apart from Alan Sutton, who posted in the comments section - his entry, translated with children in mind, reads: "Oh God, what a miserable life, my leg hurts, my back hurts...." - I got this in from Les Szabo (who seemed to think this was a 'serious' Tester).
"My guess its the pool on the margaret island."
Well, good try, but it isn't that one, I'm afraid Les. I know I've never photographed that.
Mihály Hollós pitched up with
“Hello Kester,
The guy bathing in a pool.
Instead of Óbuda gas works, guess work:
It is the Dagály Bath (or maybe Palatinus);
The guy's name is József or István;
His sunglasses are of the lower price range - may have cost around HUF1,000 back then;
The bloke is thinking of how relaxing it feels to strech his body in the water.
I may be right, I may be wrong.
Summers were not that chilly 30-odd years ago either, were they? From global warming to global worming.
Best, Misi"
Some of those comments are a bit too cryptic for me, Misi. Thanks for trying anyway, and yes, it could and did get pretty steamy back then, true.
I'm moderately sure it's the Széchenyi Baths, but I can't be certain, alas - so you could well be right on that fact, Alan.
Anyway, as this was a spoof tester, meant to allow your imaginations to run wild, out of the goodness of my heart I'll buy everyone who entered a beer or two at the next opportunity.
Now, thinking caps on: what's the answer to KT119?
1992?
His name is Kovács János. He's a taxi driver, at the Széchény baths where his "haverom " works so he doesn't have to pay to get in. The sunglasses cost nothing as someone left them in his taxi and as the shutter went he is thinking something along the lines of "Jáj Istenem. K*rva élet, de fáj a lábom, féj a hátom" or words to that effect.