Portugal in the early 1970s was a poor country, a flagging dictatorship doggedly fighting expensive, colonial wars in Mozambique and...

Photo: Dávid Bedő (centre right), of the Momentum Movement, leads the party's protestors across Erzsébet Bridge in Budapest on 8th April....

WW2 was more than Dunkirk and El Alamein - Retired diplomat Nigel Thorpe , in a Guest Post, writes on history, accurate, peoples'...

This anecdote has been prompted by Frank Hegedus' comments about Hungarian-built Ikarus coaches and whether such vehicles could get to...

KesterTester128 - Yes folks, a gleaming Hungarian-manufactured, classical coach stands proudly at the front of the (static) parking...

High-powered managers out-number new flights in jamboree jaunt through CEE Europe. What, no contorted faces? The Ryanair all-smiles team...

One of the most dramatic events of modern Hungarian history took place 30 years ago this week, when the nominally centre-left coalition...

Photo: A protest placard held high reads: Justice is not for Sale. Source screen shot from a video report by WMN Magazin link:...

KesterTester127 - It certainly looks popular here, judging by the queue outside the door. A wistful looking guy at the door of a...

KesterTester126 Photo: This oriental gentleman was in Hungary in 1991, and he wasn't your regular tourist. I was toying with running...

Every Picture Tells a Story, Don't it? Dudar, Veszprém County 1993 Photo: The pit has surely closed, and these miners will long be...

And it has an interesting history - but what and where is it? "Bonne année!" hard-core KesterTester sleuther Hubert "Le Poirot" Warsmann...

Fanni Fenyősi : “ We have forgotten what ancient peoples do naturally ” Fanni Fenyősi, President and co-founder of the BHRG Foundation in...

I happened upon these two sturdy agricultural ladies in southern Moravia in 1993 or 95*. No real connection with Christmas (it was July...

KesterTester124 - Where is this? - UPDATED with Winner! This might apper to be a near-impossible tester - but I definitely think it is...

Zoltán Ranschburg, of the Republikon Institute of Budapest, spoke to foreign journalists on 18th of November. The following is slighly...

KesterTester123 - I suspect 90% of all people visiting Hungary (not counting mere transit folk of course) will have seen this statue, or...

Remarks of Ambassador David Pressman on the 2024 U.S. General Election, November 6, 2024    US Ambassador David Pressman addressing the...

KesterTester122 - Don't you just love these old commercial signs that give it to you straight? Make your gnashers gleam again! (Updated...

This past week, on October 23, Hungarians at home and abroad commemorated the revolution of 1956, a time when, after a week of mass...