Naukšēni Manor

8 September, 2021 | Tourism objects | 23 seen

Naukšēni Manor is a two-story manor house located in the Naukšēni Municipality, Naukšēni Parish, in the historical region of Vidzeme, northern Latvia.

We discovered this manor by a chance by traveling Valka - Rūjiena road in the mid July 2021

Built in 1820, it was renovated in 1843 by Friedrich Gottlieb Gläser in Empire style according to the drafts made by its landlord Heinrich Wilhelm von Groth. Additional modifications were made at the end of the 19th century and again in 1938. Between 1920 and 1957 the building functioned as a children's home. It now houses the Naukšēni local history museum.

Phoka Nunnery in Georgia

7 September, 2021 | Churches and Monasteries | 33 seen

Phoka – a village in Georgia, In the municipality of Ninotsminda, Samtskhe-Javakheti region, on the shores of Lake Paravani, with an altitude of 2080 meters above sea level.

Distance to Ninotsminda – 28 Km, to Tbilisi – 128 Km.

There are a public school and St. Nino operational monasteries and nunneries in the village. There are a parish school and a medical inspection room as well as a studio of  cloisonne enamel for manufacturing icons and holy vessels at the nunnery.

 From 1999 by the blessing of the Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia Ilia II the day of arrival of St. Nino to Georgia has been being celebrated on each 1st of June. At the Day of Saint Nino, synod eparch, priesthood and parish are presented. Baptism is performed in the Paravani Lake.

Ruins of a burg have been preserved in the village where some building layers belonging to the pre- and early feudal era can be distinguished.

In 1979 treasure of silver coins belonging to Ilkhans was discovered, which included 155 silver dirhams. The oldest coin in the treasure bears a date of 1310, and the latest one bears a date of 1316. The treasury of Poka must have been…

Top 4 Best Selling laptops withAMD Ryzen 5 Processor

6 September, 2021 | Laptop Reviews | 8 seen

Althouhg not as popular as Intel, AMD are realiable and good performing processors.

AMD Ryze 5000 Series Mobile Processors for ultrathin notebooks offer the most cores available, with the highest performance you can get in a mobile processor.

In this article I've listed top 4 best selling laptops on Amazon with AMD Ryzen 5 powered processor

Disclosure: 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 might earn an affiliate income from that. Prices for laptop computers 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.

• Thin, light, and stylish – This 2-in-1 laptop weighs just 3.64 pounds and is only 0.82" thick. It's soft and comfortable to the touch, with a durable paint…

Hiking at Birtvisi Canyon

3 September, 2021 | Living in Georgia | 21 seen

Looking for a fun and scenic day trip from Tbilisi? This past Sunday, we set out on what turned into a surprisingly adventurous and beautiful hike through two of Georgia’s natural gems — Birtvisi Canyon and an attempt at reaching Samshvilde Canyon.

We started our morning at the always-impressive Birtvisi Canyon — one of our favorite hiking spots in the region. Just about an hour’s drive from the capital, Birtvisi offers the perfect combination of rocky trails, forest paths, panoramic views, and fascinating fortress ruins hidden among the cliffs. It’s an easy to moderate hike that anyone in decent shape can enjoy, and it never fails to impress with its dramatic scenery.

After enjoying the peaceful vibe and natural beauty of Birtvisi, we decided to push the day a little further and explore something new: Samshvilde Canyon. It’s…

Coworking Space in Tbilisi - Terminal on Abashidze street 34

2 September, 2021 | Professional services | 44 seen

Time after time I love working outside my lovely home office, starting from a Turtle lake ending a yard in a countryside.

A couple of years ago i discovered the beauty of working at Fabrika coworking space in Tbilisi, but today I had a chance to visit Terminal coworking space on Abashidze street 34 in Tbilisi.

Fun, I still remember how I met John, an American entrepreneur here in Tbilisi back in 2012, and he was talking it would be cool there would be a kind of a coop in Tbilisi, where like-minded people could work together, share resources e.t.c

Back then it sounded a bit bizarre to me, but I was pretty fond of John's idea... fast forward a decade and we have dozens, zillions of coworking spaces in Tbilisi and Georgia... just chose the one you like the most.

Now back to Terminal coworking space, this place was recommended to me by my partner, as she had noticed it when visiting some medical procedures nearby. 

It is said that the Terminal is the first Georgian brand, which laid the foundation for the development of the Co-Working industry in Georgia. Is it true, I…

Putraimi - guest house and recreational area near Kuldīga

31 August, 2021 | Hotel reviews | 14 seen

Putraimi recreational area is located in Snēpele parish, Kuldīga municipality, some 170 km from nation's capital.

I discovered this place by a chance in the Summer of 2021, and though I didn't stay overnight here I would love to return here and have some outdoor barbecue in the future.

Here at Putraimi, they have several ponds with fish. Outdoor lovers and fishing enthusiasts will enjoy this place.

Contact details:

(+371) 29181329 - Aija

putraimos@inbox.lv

Top 10 Best Selling Laptop Computers September 2021

30 August, 2021 | Laptop Reviews | 10 seen

In this article, I've listed the top 10 best selling laptops models on Amazon in the month of September 2021

As a proud owner of brand new Macbook Air, I find it logic that 3 spots are taken by Apple - really great laptop.

Disclosure: 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 might earn an affiliate income from that. Prices for laptop computers 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.

• All-Day Battery Life – Go longer than ever with up to 18 hours of battery life.
• Powerful Performance – Take on everything from professional-quality editing to action-packed gaming with ease. The Apple M1 chip with an 8-core CPU delivers up to 3.5x faster performance than the previous generation…

Lagodekhi and Kakheti trip

27 August, 2021 | Living in Georgia | 8 seen

Lagodekhi & Kakheti Trip - our first real camping trip with a tent at Lagodekhi national park in Georgia.

Enjoying a wide variety of grapes at Ampelo resort and picking up hazelnut with a retired colonel at Chateau Bruale in Kakheti. Enjoy the video and thumbs up!

August 20-21, 2021

Ampelo Resort Kardenakhi

26 August, 2021 | Hotel reviews | 31 seen

Ampelo Resort is located in the Kardanaki village some 2 hour drive from the Tbilisi. Reosrt feature a restaurant, bar, a shared lounge, and a garden.

There is an outdoor / infiniti pool, but at the time we visited this place it seemed the water is not heated (unlike in some other Kakhetian resorts, like Lopota lake, for example) 

We booked a family room for a one night stay at this hotel at the end of August 2021 and paid GEL 480 ( USD 150) for that.

Boasting room service, this property also provides guests with a barbecue. The hotel features an outdoor swimming pool, evening entertainment and a 24-hour front desk.

Guests at the hotel can enjoy a buffet or a vegetarian breakfast.

Ampelo Resort offers a sun terrace.

We enjoed at lot the kid corner with a trampoline and wide variety of grapes 

The nearest airport is Tbilisi International, 76 km from the accommodation, and the property offers a paid airport shuttle service.

7 Dividend Stocks To accumulate while selling Put options for extra income

25 August, 2021 | Options trading | 104 seen

In today's article, I'm going to talk about 7 dividend stocks I don't mind having in my portfolio and how I'm generating additional semi-passive income by selling put options (or credit spreads) on them.

Disclosure:  I'm not a financial advisor and I don't give you any advice here, I'm just sharing my own experience. Investments in stocks, funds, bonds, or cryptos are risk investments and you could lose some or all of your money. Do your due diligence before investing in any kind of asset. 

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Dividend stocks are companies that pay out regular dividends. Dividend stocks are usually well-established companies with a track record of distributing earnings back to shareholders.

A put option is a contract giving the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell–or sell short–a specified amount of an underlying security at a pre-determined price within a specified time frame. This pre-determined price that buyer of the put option can sell at is called the strike price.

A credit…

The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia

24 August, 2021 | Museums | 47 seen

The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia is an open-air museum located just outside Riga, the capital of Latvia, on the lightly wooded shores of Jugla Lake.

The museum currently occupies 87 hectares and displays 118 buildings, as well as more than 3,000 items. Most of Latvia's historical ethnic groups are represented in the museum. The museum's collection holds approximately 150,000 artifacts.

Despite being a native of Riga, I first visited this place back in the Summer of 2021

In 1924, the Latvian Council of Monuments signed an order to create the open-air museum in Riga.

The idea for the new museum was inspired by open-air museums in Scandinavia, particularly Skansen in Stockholm.

The plan was to relocate a homestead from all four regions of Latvia – Courland, Zemgale, Vidzeme and Latgale – to the museum.

Each of the buildings would represent the different crafts of each area. The new museum acquired land from a state land fund in the sandy dunes near Jugla Lake, just outside the city. In 1928, the first building, a barn from Vestiena parish was relocated and rebuilt in the museum. In 1932, the museum was opened to the…

Top 18 Gaming PCs with Intel Core I9 Processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

23 August, 2021 | Laptop Reviews | 101 seen

Looking for some incredibly fast machine?

Think PC with Intel Core i9 processor and the powerful NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card.

The GeForce RTX™ 3090 is a big ferocious GPU (BFGPU) with TITAN class performance. It’s powered by Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture—doubling down on ray tracing and AI performance with enhanced Ray Tracing (RT) Cores, Tensor Cores, and new streaming multiprocessors. Plus, it features a staggering 24 GB of G6X memory, all to deliver the ultimate gaming experience.

Disclosure: 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 might earn an affiliate income from that. Prices for laptop computers 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.

Batumi From a Drone Flight 2020

20 August, 2021 | Living in Georgia | 14 seen

Beautiful Batumi from a bird's flight. DJI Mini Mavic 2.7K drone footage August 5th, 2020 Lovingly post-processed in Tbilisi just now Music by Scott Holmes, Driven to Success While shooting this footage almost crashed my little drone to the Alphabetic tower while doing circuit cinematic flight

Abano Mineral Lake Natural Monument

19 August, 2021 | Lakes | 56 seen

Abano Mineral Lake Natural Monument is a small lake in Kazbegi Municipality in Truso valley on the left bank of Terek River, to the east of the village Abano at 2,127 m above sea level.

First discovered back in Summer of 2021, during the Kazbegi trip

The lake was created by a carbon dioxide filled underground stream flowing to the surface through carbonate rocks from the late Jurassic period.

The lake "boils" loudly with carbon dioxide bubbles bursting. The outflow of the stream is 2.5 million liters per 24 hours. 

The total surface area of the lake is 0.04 ha. The emission of gas in calm weather causes carbon dioxide to accumulate in lower levels. Small animals suffocate when they get near the lake, which is why there are dead animals there, such as mice, lizards, frogs and some birds.

Nīcava restaurant

17 August, 2021 | Restaurant reviews | 12 seen

Restaurant Nīcava is located in Nīca town, Latvia. some 230 km from the nation's capital Riga, sandwiched between Liepāja and Jūrmalciems.

We paid here a short stop in mid-July 2021, while traveling to the Pape beach

Turns out there is both a motel/guest house and a restaurant. Restaurant here serves typical Latvian cuisine. 

Quite a nice place. We enjoyed here something from the grill menu and a few drinks.