Budapest is full of bronze statues, but one of them stopped American producer Ray Brown mid-stride: Ronald Reagan, marching across Szabadság tér. The question of where Reagan is walking to sent him down a rabbit hole into the hidden world of diplomacy in Hungary.
Ray Brown has lived in Hungary on and off since 2001. His son is Hungarian, and his video series Magyar Minute looks at the country through the eyes of a foreigner who calls it home.
In his latest video editorial, made for Daily News Hungary, he asks a question most of us have never thought about: why does Hungary host embassies from so many countries, and what does an ambassador actually do all day? The answer involves a 1961 agreement signed by nearly every country on Earth, a formal ceremony at Sándor Palace that every new ambassador must complete before they can start work, and a surprising fact about the American embassy right now.
Watch the video above. It takes less than four minutes, and you will never walk past an embassy the same way again.
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