Blog Archive: April 2015
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Portfolio Grows to $7,827.75 Despite MS Credit Spread Adjustments
Last week marked another milestone for our investment portfolio, demonstrating resilience and steady growth despite some strategic adjustments. By the week's close, our portfolio value stood at $7,827.75, reflecting a modest but positive 0.04% increase compared to the previous week.This growth comes despite the need to adjust our credit spread on…
Snēpele Manor
Latvia is a land of old manor houses and palaces, they dates back from the times when German nobles ruled this territory. A lot of manors one (perhaps you) can find in a historical region of Courland. I found this…
Bangert's Restaurant Review in Kuldiga
Bangert's restaurant is kinda a new restaurant located on the banks of river Venta between Old Brick Bridge and the Venta Waterfall on Pils street 1 in Kuldīga. I first visited this restaurant last summer and found it…
The Venta Waterfall (Rapid) - Widest In Europe
The Venta rapid forms a widest waterfall in Europe. It's located very close to Kuldīga town centre in Latvia. See: Flying Fish over Venta Rapid in Kuldīga I took my DSLR camera and decided to master my photography…
The Old Brick Bridge Across The Venta River In Kuldīga
Brick bridge in Kuldīga over the river of Venta according to some sources is the longest of its kind bridge in Europe. I believe nobody actually pays attention to the lengths of this bridge instead I believe the reason…
Bistro 'Elvi' In Skrunda
Seems this place is out of the business in 2021, instead there is a liquor store Bistro Elvi is a restaurant-style catering place offering a home-style cuisine, today I will speak about one located in the town of…
Bakery Lāči
Some Latvians prefer to call Bakery Lāči a top notch place for foreigners to visit. So I decided to visit this place and make some short review of it. This bakery is located outside the capital Riga and you can reach…
Neighbourhoods of Riga: Iļģuciems
Iļģuciems is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Riga. History of this neighborhood dates back to the early 13th century. Back in 1236 a small manor was built here and given the name of Hiligen geest hove (Heiligen Geist…
Bakuzi cemetery
Bakuzi cemetery (Latvian: Bākūžu kapsēta) is located in region of Courland (Latvia) in parish of Rudbarzi, Skrunda Municipality. The history of this cemetery dates back to at least to mid 18th century (I found old grave…
Riga Airport
Riga International Airport, also know as RIX is a largest airport in the Baltic states located in capital of Latvia. Airport is located some 13km distance from city centre of Riga. I was agreeably surprised by noticing…
Tbilisi Aerial Tram
Tbilisi aerial tram is just in recent years built cable cars in Tbilisi connecting Rike Park (or more precisely Europe Square) to the fortress of Narikala. It eases your travel up to the Narikala fortress in huge.…
Flea Market Near Dry Bridge In Tbilisi
The Flea market near Dry Bridge in Tbilisi is an interesting place to visit, just to look on old Soviet time relict's, starting medals, belt buckles from Soviet military, ending movie posters of famous Soviet day films…
Tbilisi By Night - Cycling Old Town To Didube
The other day we took again our bikes and made a pretty lovely night ride in Tbilisi. From Old Tbilisi to Didube and back. For some reason my GPS tracker (MapMyRide) didn't worked properly, it missed at least first 2 km…
Rike Park In Tbilisi
Rike park is a landscaped territory located close to the Tbilisi Old Town. You can enter Rike park either crossing the pedestrian bridge of Peace or from the opposite side using stairways from the Avlabari district.…
Chashnagiri Restaurant Review in Natakhtari
For many hearing a name of Natakhtari first associations might be related to those tasty Georgian lemonades branded under 'Natakhtari' name. Well, turns out Natakhtari actually is village located in Georgia's region of…
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Once upon a Time in Odessa
Once upon a Time in Odessa is a biographic TV series about Mishka Yaponichik a Jewish gangster from Odessa. This film is made by Star Media. Babich design. Film is spoken in Russian, English subtitles are provided.…
Château Mukhrani Winery
Château Mukhrani is a winery located in Mukhrani village, Mtskheta-Mtianeti region (somewhere between Mtskheta town and Natakhtari village), Georgia . Idea to head here first arise to friend of mine (another expat) …