Postcard from Bishkek

Irkeshtam is approached from Osh, the second city of Kyrgyzstan, in the South of the country. The road travels south along the valley of the Taldyk and Gulcho river gorges to the village of Sary Tash (“Yellow Stone” in Kyrgyz), which sits on a cross roads. To the West lies the road to Dushanbe in [...]

The working day in the office, technically, runs from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., but it rarely works out like that.  In fact, my working day usually starts at six a.m. when I come downstairs to the office from my apartment which is literally “just over the office”.  I rarely finish work early, however, and [...]