What's Aperture And How To Control It

| Digital Photography School | 6 seen

With this post I'm starting a new and hopefully very interesting blog category - Digital Photography School on my blog (www.reinisfischer.com). The reason that made me to create such new category is simple - some time ago I bought my first DSRL…

St. John's Church in Saldus

| Churches and Monasteries | 20 seen

Some time ago I visited a lovely town Saldus (located some 100km from capital Riga), one of the main sights here is a church - St. John's Church of Saldus. As usual I took my camera and made a few shots here. The altarpiece at Saldus St. John's…

What Is Minimum Wage In European Union 2015

| Macroeconomics | 96 seen

A year ago I created a blog post about minimum wages in European Union in 2014, that post generated a lot of views (more than 20,000 page views) and some buzz (got shared on Facebook, Reddit, and many other websites) Update: Minimum Wages in…

Best Recommended 9 Ordino Hotels in Andorra

| Hotel reviews | 11 seen

Ordino is a small and the most northerly parish in the Principality of Andorra located very close to the nations capital city Andorra la Vella. I discovered this place by accident about a year ago. Back then I was looking for…

How to Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding header Nginx

| Servers | 63 seen

The other day I visited tools.pingdom.com to test performance for my blog (the one you are currently reading) and I did fine I have a two bottlenecks: Remove query strings from static resources Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding header I managed…

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Skrunda

| Churches and Monasteries | 17 seen

History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Skrunda dates back to 1668 as stated on official Skrunda municipality website. I took my camera and went to memorize this place.  Skrunda church Bell tower of Skrunda Church Back view…

Skrunda Cultural Center

| Entertainment | 13 seen

Right, I just made this name - Skrunda Cultural Center what is a direct translation from Latvian Skrundas Kultūras Centrs. I wouldn't probably mention this place on my blog, but since lately I have been travelling around Skrunda a lot, I decided…

The Stender’s Bar&Club in Kuldīga

| Restaurant reviews | 14 seen

I believe soon I will have a complete list of Kuldīga restaurants, but prior that I would like to introduce you another interesting place in this charming Curonian city, meet The Stender's Bar & Club.  Stender's Bar&Club is located…

Home Remodelling - How It All Starts

| Home Remodeling | 11 seen

Recently my better part and I became a lucky home-owners, we went through a long and bureaucratic procedure to inherit a house in scenic place in a very remote country. The house is in a very bad condition and asks for a lot of investments - one of…

Širhans - Azerbaijani cuisine in Riga, Latvia

| Restaurant reviews | 110 seen

Širhans (Shirhan) is a lovely restaurant serving Azerbaijani cuisine located in the suburbs of Sarkandaugava in Riga, Latvia (Meža Prospekts 90). I visited this place just shortly after a visit to Riga Zoo. If you just like me enjoy Caucasian…

Riga Zoo

| Entertainment | 103 seen

Riga Zoo is a city-owned zoo in Riga, Latvia. It is located in Mežaparks neighbourhood next to the Mežaparks park, on the western bank of Ķīšezers lake. Riga Zoo houses around 4000 animals of nearly 500 species and is visited by 250-300,000 visitors…

Dobele Castle Ruins

| Tourism objects | 18 seen

Right, lets speak about a topic I like a very much - Castle ruins. Recently I visited Dobele Castle Ruins (Republic of Latvia) and spent here some 30 minutes trying to make some decent photos of this place. History of this castle dates back to the…

Dobele Evangelical Lutheran Church

| Churches and Monasteries | 9 seen

I was surprised to learn that this church is more than 500 years old. Prior I learnt that I was even more surprised to learn that Dobele town has a lovely historical centre. This church is located just next to this historical centre. I took my…