Back from Lake Issyk-Kul

We're back! This journey took longer than I thought. Like I wrote, I had planned to stay only a couple of days with our friends in their apartment in Bostari. But then it was so nice at the lake and it seemed kind of stupid to drive back all the way to Bishkek (3-4 hrs) and again back to the conference, which also took place at a resort by the lake a couple of days later - so I decided to stay there for the entire time. On Saturday, Aug 2nd, I took a taxi to the resort "Royal Beach" a couple of towns down the lake, where I met Philipp and his colleagues for the conference (international experts on Central Asia, mostly antropologists, sociologists, some political scientists and few historians). Anyway that is the short fact based story. I'll tell you more about it soon! Hope you are well and enjoying the summer...