Enzo’s Ezo Italian Restaurant in Kakheti

19 November, 2020 | Restaurant reviews | 10 seen

Discover chef Enzo’s Italian yard  with a positive vibe and happy atmosphere in the center of Chateau Mere hotel, close to Telavi 

It's said that the place serves home-made simple rustic Italian food and 36 hours of rising dough pizza.

We had a chance to dine here at the start of October 2020, ordered some quattro formaggi pizza, salads, pasta carbonara, some drinks. Food was good, bill was about GEL 100

Overall - nice place. 

Golden hour at Northern Forts / Liepāja

17 November, 2020 | | 17 seen

Northern forts of Liepāja are really cool military history tourism site - Built by Imperial Russia at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of 20th century to provide the protection of Liepāja’s naval base in case of enemy attack.

It was at the start of November 2020, I was equiped with DJI Mavic Air 2 drone and wanted to make some cool drone footage. Decided to test with bracketing to post process in Adobe Lightroom later and make some nice looking HDR's.

Here is what I got:

Northern forts of Liepāja

 According to history - In November of 1908, Tsar Nicholas II approved a decision to shut down the sea fortress in Liepāja. It has been now over 100 years since these fortification walls don't function anymore and just recently they have been placed on tourist maps.

Golden hour at Northern forts of Liepāja

There was an attempt to blow up the gun batteries, the underground structures, and the gunpowder depots but this did not prove effective. So nowadays we can still see the remains of the newest and the most up-to-date fortress of the Tsar’s Russia.

Northern forts of Liepāja

Top 10 Gaming Desktop PC's with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Graphics Card

16 November, 2020 | Laptop Reviews | 39 seen

Long been the days since I built my first crypto mining rig, these were the days I was following up on the latest trends for GPU cards. 

Now, in today's article, I've listed the top 10 Gaming Desktop PCs with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3800 graphics cards.

The GeForce RTX 3080 delivers the ultra-performance that gamers crave, powered by Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture. It’s built with enhanced RT Cores and Tensor Cores, new streaming multiprocessors, and superfast G6X memory for an amazing gaming experience.

A quick note: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page, and by making a purchase on the Amazon site, I will earn an affiliate income at no cost to you. Prices for desktops listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and is updated daily. For actual prices please refer to the product page on Amazon.

Skytech Blaze 3.0 Gaming PC Desktop - AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6GHz, RTX 3080 10GB, 16GB DDR4, 1TB Gen4 SSD, 120mm AIO Liquid Cool, B550 Motherboard, Black

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Skytech Siege 3.0 Gaming PC Desktop - Intel Core-i7 10700K 3.6GHz, RTX 3080 10GB, 16GB DDR4, 1TB NVME, 120mm AIO Liquid Cool, Z490 Motherboard, 750W PSU, Black

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Skytech Chronos Gaming PC Desktop - AMD Ryzen 9 3900 3.1GHz, RTX 3080 10GB, 16GB DDR4, Seagate Firecuda 520 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe, X570 Motherboard, 360mm AIO, 850W Gold PSU, Black

• Ryzen 9 3900 12-Core 3.1GHz (4.3 GHz Max Boost) CPU Processor | Seagate FireCuda 520 M.2 2280 1TB PCIe Gen4 x 4, NVME 1.3 Internal Solid State Drive | X570 Motherboard
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Thermaltake LCGS AH-380 AIO Liquid Cooled CPU Gaming PC (AMD RYZEN 5 3600XT 6-core, ToughRam DDR4 3600Mhz 16GB RGB Memory, RTX 3080 10GB, 1TB M.2, Win 10 Home) AHT2-B550-A38-LCS

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Cīrava manor from a birds flight during golden hour

13 November, 2020 | | 13 seen

Cīrava Palace  is located in the village of Cīrava, Aizpute municipality, Latvia. 

The palace / manor t was built in 1752 as a hunting palace for the German Baltic baron family von Manteuffel-Szoeges.

Cīrava manor in Latvia

We love to come and visit Cīrava if we have a chance, so did happen last time at the start of November 2020, I was equipped with a DJI Mavic AIr 2 drone and wanted to make some awesome golden hour HDR photography

Abandoned Manor Complex in Cirava (Latvia)

Cīrava manor from a drone flight

The palace is surrounded by a nineteenth-century landscape park. There is also a decorative pond with two islands and a big collection of trees and bushes in the park. G. Kuffalt, the main gardener of Riga, took part in the creation of the Cīrava Palace park.

Cirava Lutheran church

Weekend trip to Borjomi and Akhaltsikhe

12 November, 2020 | Tourism objects | 5 seen

Weekend trips to Borjomi and Akhaltsikhe are quite possible and easily doable. 

I just love to visit Borjomi an area during the fall season, the scenery can turn very spectacular, leaves are turning yellow, orange.. see Autumn in Borjomi

So did happen at the of September 2020, we decided to for an easy weekend trip to Borjomi, booked a nice family-run hotel in Borjomi - hotel Rustaveli 

Once arrived on site, it turned out we are the only guests, got complimentary wine from the hotel owner David, who latter recommended us to visit Sapara monastery near Akhaltsikhe the next day.

The next morning we headed to the famous mineral water park in Borjomi, as it was raining we decided to get back to the car and drive up to the women's monastery. 

Next, our road took us to Akhaltsikhe, during our ride, we discovered a pretty awesome Atskuri monastery. Next, stop at Rabati complex, but before that ordered some grilled meat for takeaway at Sergos Duqani.

About an hour at the monastery complex and we wanted already to return back to Tbilisi, but as our grilled meat was not yet ready yet, took some short driving toward the town of Vale. 

Made a lot of drone photography and videography

St Nicholas Naval Cathedral, Karosta / Liepāja

10 November, 2020 | Churches and Monasteries | 31 seen

The St Nicholas Naval Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral church located in Karosta in the north of Liepāja, Latvia.

I have visited this cathedral just a couple of times, but always have been impressed by the glory of the place. 

It was at the start of November 2020, I got my new DJI Mavic Air 2 drone and I wanted to make some nice aerography, as we happened to be in the area, it was agreed to film and photograph this cathedral

St Nicholas Naval Cathedral in Liepāja

The cathedral was built on the style of 17th century traditional Russian churches with a central dome representing Christ with 4 smaller domes representing the four evangelists on designs made by V. Kosyakov. It was built to serve as the cathedral church of the Russian navy stationed in Karosta. The cornerstone was laid in the presence of a number of dignitaries including Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. The cathedral was completed two years later in 1903 and was formally consecrated and dedicated to the patron saint of seafarers in the presence of the Tsar himself.

St Nicholas Naval Cathedral in Karosta

The cathedral's belongings, including bells and icons, were transported to Russia during the outbreak of WWI, for safe keeping. After independence in 1918, the church was converted into a Lutheran church to serve the Latvian navy personnel.

St Nicholas Naval Cathedral in Karosta

The cathedral continued to function as place of worship until the Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944. The soviets prohibited anyone entering the Karosta area which was turned into a secret soviet navy territory. Consequently, the cathedral was converted into a gymnasium, a cinema and a recreation and entertainment room, referred to as the 'red corner' for the needs of sailors and soldiers. The interior of the central dome was closed to eliminate the Acoustics which made it difficult for navy personnel to hear movies in the cinema

St Nicholas Naval Cathedral in Karosta from a drone flight

After Latvia's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the cathedral was given back to the Latvian Orthodox Church under the authority of the Russian Orthodox Church with the first service taking place that same year in December.

BalticInvestors.com - Your gateway to investments in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

9 November, 2020 | Drupal Development | 15 seen

After a long time of thinking, on the late-night of November 8, 2020, I finally launched my latest brainchild - BalticInvestors.com  - a website dedicated to investment opportunities in the region of Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania).

At this website, we are going to cover investments in stock, real estate, and alternative investments, like peer to peer lending. Also agricultural land and forestry. 

BalticInvestors.com website

Those of you who follow my personal blog for a longer time - already now I'm a keen investor in the Baltic stock market and have some good background with peer to peer lending platforms. Despite I personally prefer larger markets, like the US stock market, I still feel very interested in Baltic investment opportunities. 

The final push to launch a separate website for covering investments in the Baltic, come after I bought a flat at online auction, see: Today I bought my first flat on online auction site

For the next year, it's planned to write bi-weekly in-depths articles, on topics like - top dividend stocks in Baltics, Investing with mutual funds, top peer to peer lending platforms, how to buy a flat in online auction e.t.c.

Website BalticInvestors.com has been built on top of the latest Drupal 9 CMS platform and launched for public on November 8, 2020, by Reinis Fischer

If you want to get in touch, feel free to use the contact form

Rudbārži Palace

6 November, 2020 | Tourism objects | 20 seen

Rudbārži Palace is a palace in Rudbārži parish in Skrunda municipality in the historical region of Courland, in western Latvia.

The estate was, from 16th century to 1661, owned by the family of Eberhard von Goes  and from 1778 till 1920 by the von Fircks noble family.  Schloss Rudbahren was originally built (within the Courland Governorate) in 1835 for Baroness Thea von Fircks and was remodeled in 1882–1883. The structure was severely damaged by a fire set by revolutionaries in 1905 but rebuilding began in 1908.

Rudbarzi palace

During the Latvian independence struggle of 1919, Rudbārži Palace was a base for the Oskars Kalpaks Battalion (the 1st Latvian Independent Battalion). The bodies of Kalpaks himself and other officers who fell in the actions of March 1919 against the Bolsheviks were brought from the place of skirmish to lie in the Hall. In 1937 a rest home for Latvian soldiers was established there,[4] and a commemorative plaque was unveiled on the building. Following further destruction in 1938, there was a second reconstruction. During World War Two the palace served as a German field hospital, and was further damaged, and after the War it was used as a school for forestry workers.

From 1962 until 2017 the palace housed the Rudbārži Elementary School, which took on the name of the Oskars Kalpaks Elementary School. The commemorative plaque was rediscovered and remounted in its former position in recent years. The building has been granted state protection as a Cultural Monument for its association with Kalpaks: the domed oval hall has been restored at great expense and renamed the "Heroes' Hall".

Rudbarzi palace from a drone flight

The school closed owing to lack of pupils in 2017 and the house became a military centre for the New Guard

Rabati Fortress complex from a drone flight

5 November, 2020 | | 5 seen

Rabati Castle is a medieval fortress built in the 9th century under the name "Lomisa Castle" in the city of Akhaltsikhe in southern Georgia, recently globally reconstructed. One of the main attractions of the Samtskhe-Javakheti region along with Vardzia caves

We have been visiting Rabati occasionally here and then, so did happen at the end of September 2020, we were on a day trip to the Borjomi, when decided to come here, luckily I was equipped with my DJI Mavic mini drone and made a few nice drone photos.

Rabati fortress complex

In May 2011, the reconstruction of the Rabati fortress began, which was accompanied by the restoration and completion of many buildings that were destroyed in time immemorial. For this purpose, the Government of Georgia allocated 34 million lari from the state budget. As part of the project, the Akhmediye Mosque, the mosque minaret, the madrasah, the Jakeli castle, baths, the citadel, the walls of the fortress and the Orthodox Church were updated on the territory of the fortress. The tunnel leading to the Potskhovi River was also restored. As part of the project, two main streets of the fortress were repaired, a pavement was equipped, and the facades and roofs of buildings were restored.

Rabati fortress complex

According to the Georgian Chronicles the city was established in the 9th century by Guaram Mampal, son of the King of Tao. At the end of the 12th century Lomisa turned into a real city with the new name Akhal-tsikhe (New Fortress), which in addition to the fortress had a serious system of city-wide fortifications – high walls, guarded entrance gates and watch towers. From the 13th to the end of 14th centuries it was the capital city of Samtskhe-Saatabago, ruled by the Georgian princely (mtavari) family and a ruling dynasty of the Principality of Samtskhe, the House of Jaqeli.

October 2020 Dividend Income Report - $89.35

4 November, 2020 | Investments | 12 seen

Welcome to the forty-second (#42) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in October 2020.

Last October we managed to get out of Georgia and come to Latvia, seems we have will stuck here for some time.

Also, another, bigger and better, drone is now in my arsenal (DJI Mavic Air 2)

Golden Autumn in Latvia / Forest house in Ķemeri

From the perspective of dividend income - we keep struggling and last October was pretty bad if compared to the previous years, we keep suffering from trimmed dividends, and by the end of the month, we barely took $89. Relying on dividends these days is very hard.

Compared to the previous October in 2019, when we took $200 in dividend income, our monthly dividend has decreased by -55.63%  (-$112.01). A year ago we did set a goal to take at least $300 this month, now this didn't happen. 

Luckily, an additional $548.24 was made from options trading.  

As options trading is not a passive form of making money while you are sleeping it wouldn't be fair to include them in dividend income reports.

Check out our options income report here: October 2020 Options Income Report - $548.24

If counted all together (dividends + options) it seems we have made $637.59 in total last month.

We were able to generate about 3.75% income yield from our portfolio value last October (that's about 45% annualized)

One of our monthly goals is to generate at least a 2.5% income yield from the portfolio. As longs it's above it - it's awesome.

Interest income in October 2020

From the stocks and peer to peer lending we got the following income last month:

Ticker

Earnings

OLF1R

€23.04

NRZ

€10.91

EDF

€9.31

Mintos

€7.89

RA

€7.24

EDI

€6.69

NCV

€6.19

KO

€2.99

O

€2.05

Total EUR 76.37 / USD 89.35

In total there were 9 companies paying us dividend in October 2020 that is 5 company less than in October 2019

Monthly income

I've been tracking my journey towards million dollars in a savings account since January 2017. More than three years already. The result, so far, looks quite good. Dividends are growing (even when they are not)

Monthly dividend Income chart as of October 2020

The cumulative dividend income for 2020 now is $1,479.43  which is just 41.10% from my goal of 2020 ($3,600). On average, it would ask us to generate $1,060 every month for the next 2 months to reach this goal. Unattainable, as for now, I cannot see even a single $200 month for 2020, 

2019 in Review and Financial Goals for 2020

Goals for October 2021

This is my favorite part of these reports - trying to forecast/set goals for the next year. But before setting a goal for 2020, let's see what I forecasted/said a year ago (October 2019)

when setting goals for October 2020, be more humble, that's why I will set a quite doable $300 goal for next year. 

Ahh, what a surprise, we didn't get there, not even close. our dividend stock portfolio wasn't immune to the market downturn and most of our stocks get trimmed or halted dividend payments. In the case of recovery, there is hope.

I will be optimistic and say we are still looking to crack that $200/mo goal in October 2021

Kazdanga Mill lake (Dzirnezers) from a drone flight

3 November, 2020 | | 4 seen

Kazdanga Mill lake (Dzirnezers, Dzirnavu ezers in Latvian) is located centrally located in Kazdanga, Latvia.

First discovered back in 2015, I have been returning here quite often, so did happen last time at the end of October 2020 I come here with a DJI Mavic Mini drone

Kazdanga mill lake

Located in a very close distance to the impressive Kazdanga manor Kazdanga Mill Lake and its surroundings is a must-have attraction while you are in Kazdanga.

Kazdanga mill lake

There is a nice pontoon footbridge built across the lake, see: Pontoon Footbridge Over Mill Lake In Kazdanga

Laidi Village from a Drone flight

30 October, 2020 | | 11 seen

Laidi is a village in Laidi parish, Kuldīga municipality. Laidi village is located some 28 km from the county center of Kuldiga and 167 km from Riga.

There is located a parish administration, primary school, library, doctorate, pharmacy, post office, shop, open-air stage.

Laidi village from a drone flight

The settlement was formed around the center of the former Laidi manor (Laiden) and Valtaiķi parish, and grew up in the post-war years as a village council and collective farm "Spartaks".

The buildings of Laidu manor (castle, manager's house, carriage-barn) and the park are architectural monuments of national significance

Laidi Manor

Built in the early 19th century by the local German nobility, it has housed the Laidi primary school since 1921.

Sapara Monastery

29 October, 2020 | Churches and Monasteries | 8 seen

Sapara Monastery is a Georgian Orthodox monastery located in the Akhaltsikhe District of Samtskhe-Javakheti region, Georgia.

I had a chance to visit this monastery at the end of September 2020 and capture really awesome drone photography / catching colors of the fall

Sapara monastery from a drone flight

It has existed from at least the 9th century, and has numbered among its monks many important figures in Georgian ecclesiastical history. At the end of the 13th century Sapara became a possession of the Jakeli family, whose leader, Sargis Jakeli, was adept at staying on good terms with the Mongols, which enabled Samtskhe to enjoy a peace unusual for the time. When he grew old, Sargis took monastic orders and changed his name to Saba. His son Beka built the largest of the 12 churches here, St Saba's Church, named after the saint whose name his father had adopted, one of the most architecturally important churches of its time. The 14th-century frescoes inside are of high quality

Sapara monastery complex in Georgia

From the end of the 16th century until the beginning of the 17th century the Sapara Monastery became empty due to the expansion of Ottoman Empire policy into Samtskhe and during this process the monastery's icons and other treasures were taken to more protected areas of Georgia

Set in a green forested canyon, the monastery is contrastingly distinguished by its pink and yellow stones. The ensemble is composed of church buildings and remnants of a palace and fortifications walls. The most important is the cross-in-square temple of St. Saba. Another significant church is St. Mary's Assumption Church.

The newly built road connecting Akhatsikhe to Sapara monastery

The road is very good and very spectacular, in total there is a distance of about 10km from the town of Akhaltsikhe.

Ķemeri Forest House

27 October, 2020 | Museums | 16 seen

Ķemeri Forest house is really cool outdoors tourism attraction located close to Jūrmala

The park centre is located in Ķemeri, in the “Forest House” . We first discovered this place back in Spring 2018 and made some nice hiking in the area, see: Hiking Trails in Kemeri National Park (Near Forest House)

We have been returning here for a few more times ever since. 

Forest House in Ķemeri

The history of the “Tree House” dates back to the summer of 1933, when in the newly constructed building, a centre for sports and recreation (arch. Fridrihs Skujiņš) was opened, pleasing the visitors with “a exemplary shooting range, various American sport type apparatus, ping-pong, bowling alley, billiards, chess and bridge premises, good beer, delicious tea and coffee”.

Later the sport centre was changed into a restaurant “Fun mosquito”, which was operating up until World War II and offered fine meals for the resort guests, and the dinner entertainment included dancing and cabaret.

Forest house from a drone flight

During the Soviet era, it hosted a children’s sanatorium. Now, it is the ĶNP administration and information centre, as well as Nature School organizing various events of nature education activities.

Another Daytrip to Kakheti in Georgia

23 October, 2020 | Travel guides | 6 seen

I have said it already several times in the blog - day trips to the region of Kakheti are quite possible and easily done from Tbilisi

Day Trip to Kakheti in Georgia

In today's article, I'll share our route details and discoveries from the latest day trip to Kakheti on October 3, 2020

We left Tbilisi and headed to Telavi via Gombori Pass, here we made a stop at Ujarma fortress where I made some cool drone photography, see: Ujarma Fortress from a drone flight, our next stop is Italian restaurant Enzo's ezo at Chateau Mere close to Telavi. 

From here on we head to the Lopota lake side to find some cool vineyards for more drone videography, see: Daytrip to Kakheti / Ujarma fortress / Alazani river / Vineyards in Georgia / DJI Mavic Mini

it was agreed to head back home, but using the other highway, now we go to Gurjaani - Chalaubani to return back to Tbilisi

Quite a good day trip