Showing posts with label Hungary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hungary. Show all posts
Friday, June 23, 2017

30 years ago today: Saying goodbye to Budapest, and an era now long gone.

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Previously: The time when the ghost of Yuri Andropov tried to punch me out, up in the Buda Hills . As I write, it is the year 2017. I...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

ON THE AVENUES: Train Whistle Reds, or my journey from Budapest to Moscow by rail in June, 1987.

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ON THE AVENUES: Train Whistle Reds, or my journey from Budapest to Moscow by rail in June, 1987. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. T...
Monday, June 19, 2017

THE BEER BEAT: 30 years ago today, labels from beer hunting in Red Hungary ... and töltött káposzta at Czarnok Vendéglő.

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This article is one of a series documenting my 1987 journeys in Europe.  Previously : Genesis live in Budapest on June 18, 1987 . Next...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Hungarian banks, comedians and food.

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Conceding a persistent Eurocentrism, I find this utterly fascinating, but first, on another Magyar note, do you know the origin of the comed...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

The last Hungarian puszta farmers.

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Photo credit: The Guardian I'm a perennial sucker for the elegiac. The photos were taken around the same time that I visited Hung...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

The curious conversion of the late Gyula Horn.

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It's worth following the link to see the photo of the late Gyula Horn with wirecutters. It reminds me of a quote by Bruce Catton: “In...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

From Yuri Andropov, with love.

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When Yuri Andropov replaced the enfeebled Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet kingpin in 1982, there was no way of knowing that the ex-KGB operative...
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