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Charles Bridge: A Timeless Landmark in Prague
The Charles Bridge (Karlův most) in Prague is one of the most iconic and historic landmarks in Europe. Built in the 14th century under the reign of King Charles IV, this Gothic stone bridge spans the Vltava River, connecting Prague's Old Town with the Lesser Town (Malá Strana). Adorned with a series of 30 Baroque statues and surrounded by stunning…
Tbilisi Sea Club
| 180 views | Photo GeorgiaTbilisi sea club is a popular and paid recreational area located next to the Tbilisi sea. For an entrance fee of GEL 20/per person (kids are free) you could get a free parking lot, free sunbed, free entry to the…
How To Add CAPTCHA Protection to Drupal 8 Webform
| 153 views |Recently I launched a new Drupal 8 website and was surprised by a spam amount we got via website's contact form (built with Webform module). As the website was new, I was manually blocking each spammers IP, but the…
Restaurant Imeruli Ezo
| 8 views | Photo GeorgiaRestaurant Imeruli Ezo is a nice roadside restaurant located in Natakhtari (this area is famous for its restaurants) We made a lovely dinner here at the start of June 2020, returning from our adventures at the Poppy…
How To Exlude URL's Form Google AdSense Auto Ads
| 7 views |Google AdSense auto ads have been available for some time already, in the past I have used them with mixed success. Fast forward to 2020 and I decided to give them another shot. But there was one thing worrying me - I…
How To Create a Custom Drupal 8 Theme based on Bootstrap
| 26 views |When building a new Drupal website I prefer working with a Bootstrap theme and apply a subtheme Just like in the case with Drupal 7, theming a subtheme based on Bootstrap is super simple - in a few words - download…
Happy Kids Saldus
| 8 views | Photo LatviaHappy Kids Saldus is a cool kid's amusement park in the town of Saldus, Latvia. I first read about in on a local Latvian Daily Business newspaper, and soon as I had the chance took our baby girl to play here.…
June 2020 Dividend Income Report - $82.11
| 8 views |Welcome to the thirty-eight (#38) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in June 2020.Just like the previous months, the last June we also spent in a…
Poppy fields near Mchadijvari
| 154 views | Photo GeorgiaSummers in Georgia are very beautiful, traveling around the country is a pleasure. One such travel happened at the start of June 2020, when we decided to find the real poppy field. Let me explain, a couple of weeks ago…
Saint Dimitri Tesalonikeli Fathers Moanstery near Mtksheta
| 6 views | Photo GeorgiaThis is a little monastery near Mtskheta, best reached via Mtskheta-Shiomghvime monastery road. That's how we actually discovered this place at the end of May 2020 - during a random drive to the Shio-Mgvime monastery,…
Average Monthly Salary in European Union 2020
| 266 views |In 2020 three were 27 member states in the European Union (EU), 19 of the 27 EU member states have adopted the euro (€) as their common currency. In this article, I've compared the gross monthly average salary for 2020…
Oskars Kalpaks Museum and Memorial Place "Airītes"
| 9 views | Photo LatviaOskars Kalpaks Museum and Memorial Place "Airītes" is a branch of the Latvian War Museum established in memory of the hero of the Latvian War of Independence Colonel Oskars Kalpaks in "Airītes", Zirņi Parish, Saldus…
Church of the Archangels of Mchadijvari
| 7 views | Photo GeorgiaMchadijvari Archangels Church is an architectural and historical monument in Georgia, in the center of the village of Mchadijvari. We discovered this church when searching for the poppy fields in Georgia, at the…
Khatsiri Forest Park
| 10 views | Photo GeorgiaKhatsiri Forest park is a nice recreational area next to the town of Tianeti in Georgia. We discovered this place by accident after spending a day at Kuzh Park in Tianeti (sometimes we love to drive to the Tianeti…
Minimum Wages in European Union 2020
| 9 views |In 2020 there were 21 out of 27 European Union member states with an official minimum wage set by the government. In this article I've listed them all, also this is the first year I'm not including data for the UK in…
Eat For Fit - Healty Food Home Delivery in Tbilisi
| 90 views |Eat for fit is my favorite healthy food home delivery service here in Tbilisi. Recently these loss-weight / dietary food delivery companies have started to pop up like mushrooms in the forest after the rain here in…
Tsilkani cathedral
| 14 views | Photo GeorgiaThe Tsilkani cathedral of the Mother of God is a Georgian Orthodox church in the village of Tsilkani, Mtskheta Municipality, in Georgia's eastern region of Mtskheta-Mtianeti. Originally built in the 4th century, the…
How to Install Drupal with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.4, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 - Linode Guide
| 79 views |In this article, you will learn how to setup webserver for serving Drupal websites running with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.4, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 For the following tutorial, I used very much the information…
File Permissions for gmap_markers.js
| 6 views |Time after time I'm facing this issue with gmap markers. As mostly this happens when I'm doing something on the server side with file permissions, I decided to keep the notes here is the problem GMap is unable to…
Simple CSS trick to Make Table Responsive
| 29 views |Working on the OptionsBrew.com project (website is powered by Drupal 8) I faced the following responsive table issue while browsing content with a table on smaller screens (phone)Broken Table on a smaller screenLuckily…
Poppy fields near Marneuli
| 55 views |We love poppy fields, we have featured them a couple of times here at the Piece of Life series Beautiful Poppy Field Near P104 (Jaunpils-Tukums) Road (Latvia) Railroad crossing in Skrunda municipality, Latvia Today we…