Blog Archive: November 2016
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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…
Ujarma Fortress
Ujarma is a medieval Georgian fortress in the Kakheti region, located some 45 km east from the nation's capital Tbilisi. It's believed than in the second half of the 5th century, famous Vakhtang Gorgasali (founder of…
Postcards from Seville, Spain
We spent a whole day in charming Seville (Spain) back in June 2016. Although many tourism objects and sites were visited today, just one did find a separate article on blog, see Plaza De Espana. Today I decided to…
Literatu street in Vilnius
The chances are you will love this narrow street in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania if you are an avid reader, writer or just a true hipster (OK, just joking). "Literatu street project" - formally name of the project. …
Iosebis Duqani (Joseph's Tavern) near Sasadilo
Iosebis Duqani is just another cool roadside cafeteria, located near village of Sasadilo, in Mtskheta-Tianeti region, Georgia. Often readers of my blog are familiar on my passion on roadside cafeterias, in most cases…
Plaza de España: A Historical Marvel in Seville, Spain
Plaza de España undoubtedly ranks among the top 10 must-visit tourist attractions in Seville, Spain. Here's a delightful anecdote from my visit: I stumbled upon the name of this iconic place only after completing my…
Travelling From Telaviv, Israel to Yerevan, Armenia
An Israeli traveler recently contacted me and asked could I give an advice on traveling to Yerevan (Armenia) from Telaviv (Israel). As this is a pretty broad topic to answer in one single reply I decided to wrap up…
Postcards from Vilnius
Piece of Life has already featured postcards from two other Baltic state's capital cities, see Postcards from Tallinn and Postcards from Riga. In today's postcards from series - cards from Vilnius, Lithuanian capital…
Sioni Water Reservoir (Georgia)
I had never been to this area of Georgia before, the lucky day come and I negotiated with our driver to visit town of Tianeti. It was from Tianeti driver suggested us to visit Sioni lake, or more precisely Sioni water…
Opening Bank Account in Georgia - Bank of Georgia
This is already the third time I have opened a bank account in Georgia as an individual. This time at the Bank of Georgia. Let me explain - I'm already using two local banks - Procredit bank and Bank Republic. If you…
Hotel Review - Leflet Valme in Dos Hermanas, Spain
Leflet Valme is a 3-star hotel located in a small town of Dos Hermanas in province of Sevile, Spain. We booked this hotel for one night prior of visiting Seville next morning. Our road took us here from Cadiz, and in…
Vilnius TV Tower and Observation Platform
The Vilnius TV Tower is a 326.5 m (1,071 ft) tower in the Karoliniškės microdistrict of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is the tallest structure in Lithuania, and is occupied by the SC Lithuanian Radio and Television Centre.…
Public Service Hall in Tianeti
Georgia is well know of its unique style and design for Public service halls across the country. The most famous probably is the Tbilisi Public service hall (Ups, I don't have a separate article about it yet, but yes,…
Lord Restaurant Review in Tbilisi
The Lord restaurant comes as the biggest discovery in my Tbilisi restaurant review series this year, located on the Left embankment of Mtkvari, this place is actually pretty close to our apartment, although after living…
Country House 'Guronys' Near Pasuliai in Lithuania
Guronys is located on a 7 hectare area and offers rooms and historic, wooden cottages with authentic décor of a Lithuanian village house. It is located on the bank of the lake, 8 km from Vilnius - Kaunas motorway and…
Kuzh Park in Tianeti
Kuzh park is located in the town of Tianeti, Georgia. We first discovered it at the end of October 2016, and ever since we have been returning here once in a while, especially now with our baby girl. I didn't find…
Gas Burger Tbilisi Review
Gas Burger on Marjanishvili street Tbilisi is among my latest discoveries from Tbilisi eatery's. In short - a very good place, where rich burgers and milk shakes are served. A little but ecletic - I would call this a…
Lithuanian Wedding
I originally wanted to create a post - Postcards from Kaunas, for Postcards from series, but when browsed through the images I captured back in Kaunas, Lithuania this Summer I found that this time my architecture…
OwnCloud - Increase Max File Upload Size
It has been more than 2 years, since I installed (set and forgot) OwnCloud for internal file sharing. For the past two years OwnCloud have worked like a charm (and still does). Just today I faced a problem - I tried…
Cafe Vanessa in Tianeti
I love roadside cafeterias, in most cases they are better or in same level as fancy restaurants. I wouldn't call Cafe Vanessa in Tianeti a roadside cafeteria, as I believe we can call it the only one in this small…
Ankara Turkish Restaurant in Tbilisi
I love Turkish cuisine, and those Turkish restaurants located in Tbilisi are very good. In fact it is thanks to the Turkish Restaurants in Georgia I learnt what halal actually is (as most of the Turkish or Persian…