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interested in this, but if the two drivers entered the country, they
could only leave England through Heathrow by flight. They
have a valid passport for Hungary.
- We will go to the French embassy in London and ask two
visas back to France, I suggested.
- Well, I am afraid that won't work - he said, since it is Saturday
and although the embassy is open, it closes at two o'clock. And
now it's ten o'clock - was the answer.
- We are in London at half past twelve.
- Do you know London traffic? he asked, not even expecting an
answer, because why should he try to convince someone who
came so far away from all aspects. But he continued:
- All right, you may go. I instruct my colleagues you leave.
We were in London at half past twelve. At twelve we stopped
the bus in the park in front of the consulate. By then, the two
drivers were in despair.
- Technical break - we declared to the tourists, - there is also a
toilet nearby, - with that we started towards the consulate,
where there was a queue of men about forty meters long in front
of the entrance; dark faces, dark hair, moustaches.
- Listen, try everything for us - the drivers asked - we're done if
you don't do something. How do we even get in there?
- You join me, and you'll push me in at the door and you will be
beaten, then whatever will happen - I let out the instructions.
At that time, Hungary was officially an enemy in England and
France.
The official Hungary regarded as undeveloped, ancient
countries with their capitalist outlook. They were doomed to
die, was the official conviction, but at the same time, the
existing phenomenon was accompanied by a profound
incomprehensibility, that it stubbornly did not happen. So, visas
were needed everywhere and suspicion on both sides.
Arriving at the consulate of the consulate, something happened
like this happened that was unimaginable in such a decadent
capitalist country: I was simply pushed through the door into

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