Postcard from Bishkek

To help preserve the priceless, pristine, virgin, natural resources that it possesses, Kyrgyzstan has a total of 83 Specially Protected Natural Territories, (SPNT), with a total area of about 800,000 hectares, which is 4% of Kyrgyzstan’s total land area. Perhaps, the most famous of these specially protected regions is Ala Archa – just outside Bishkek. [...]

There is an old maxim in Real Estate … the only thing that really counts is “location, location, location”.  It is such an overriding principle that in 2001 it was used for the title for a TV programme on Britain’s Channel 4.  The mantra basically encapsulates the idea that identical homes can increase or decrease [...]