Postcard from Bishkek

The original ianbek site was created in 2003, and ran for a couple of years.  Then, one year, I forgot to re-register the domain name in time … and I started getting messages asking what had happened.  Apparently someone had bought up the name and parked a site on it.

You can imaging that I wasn’t too happy about it … but, to be honest, it was my own fault.

After a while, however, people were still asking me what had happened and so I decided to resurrect the site.  I re-registered it under the name ianbek.kg … ianbek.com was still in use by somebody else … and here we are.

Some of the pages from the original site have been included here … in some cases with additional comments:

• Introductions
• About me
• Malvern
• Schooldays
• Oxford by the Backdoor
• Studying Theology
• Teaching
• Maths … and all that
• Computing
• Examining
• A Union Official
• A perpetual Student
• Rugby
• Becoming an expat
• About the site
• Why “ianbek”?
• Why “Postcard from Bishkek”?
• For the Record
• About Kyrgyzstan
• Bishkek
• Naryn
• About Celestial Mountains
• Tours
• Our Hotels
• The Silk Road Lodge
• The Celestial Mountains Guesthouse, Naryn
• yurts.kg
• Consulting
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Our Websites
• Our Travel Encyclopaedia about Kyrgyzstan – www.celestial.com.kg
• links.kg
• Terms and Conditions
• Postcards
• Bishkek Madaniyat
• Language Difficulties
• A word of advice
• Tika yedish, dalshe budesh
• Village economics
• Raise your glass
• A day out
• A riddle about wheelchairs
• Who’s to blame?
• What price, an education?
• Mobile Telephones
• Practice v Theory
• The International Business Council – IBC
• The Bologna Declaration
• The Kyrgyz Association of Tour Operators – KATO
• One Thing After Another
• Investment in Tourism
• Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
• Remember the regions
• Be Prepared
• A British Investment
• A message from the President of KATO
• Why two Associations?
• My Best, My Worst
• Charity
• An Inspector Calls
• A resume of CVs
• The Customer is NOT always right!
• Putting Kyrgyzstan on the map
• The Tulip Revolution – 24th March, 2005
• Message – Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
• Message – Friday, March 25th, 2005
• Message – Saturday March 26th, 2005
• Message – Monday March 28th, 2005
• Press Release – Kyrgyzstan Makes the News
• Press Release – The World now knows about Kyrgyzstan
• Message – April 4th, 2005
• Message – May 15th, 2005
• Message – June 18th, 2005
• Message – June 24th, 2005
• Message – July 17th , 2005
• After the Revolution
• An interview for BITF
• Visas and all that
• There is always next year
• The impact of Global Warming
• Our Staff are our greatest asset
• Posts:2003-2008