Blog Archive: March 2017

Hi! My name is Reinis Fischer (39), a proud dad and devoted husband. CEO and Founder of Terramatris crypto hedge fund, stock analyst, quantitative options trader, drone enthusiast, world traveler, photographer, and passionate lover of Georgian cuisine (vegetarian).

An ex-pat living in Georgia since 2011, I trade stocks, take photographs & make video's, work out at the gym, and many more. Contact me

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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…

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House of Madatovi - Tbilisi Restaurant

| 11 views | Restaurant reviews Photo Georgia

House of Madatovi is a really lovely Georgian style cuisine restaurant, located on the recently renovated part of David Aghameshabeli avenue. See: New Life for Agmashenebeli avenue, Tbilisi Madatovi restaurant…


ISO Settings for Night Photography

| 21 views | Digital Photography School

The purpose of this article is to familiarize the user with the best practices regarding ISO settings for night photography. We will go over a basic introduction to ISO as well as a short guide on using different ISO…


Champions Academy Tbilisi

| 64 views | Health & Wellness Photo Georgia

Champions Academy in Tbilisi is a gym/ fitness / crossfit training facility, located on a 4-storey building on David Agmanashebeli avenue.  I've enrolled at Champions Academy at the start of February 2017, with a goal…


Restaurant Kus Tba (Turtle Lake) in Tbilisi

| 3 views | Restaurant reviews Photo Georgia

Restaurant Kus Tba is located next to the popular recreational area Turtle lake in Tbilisi, here serves a traditional Georgian cuisine in a touristic sauce.  I have been to this place several times, I cannot tell…


Sleep Inn Philadelphia

| 3 views | Hotel reviews Photo United States

Offering a fitness centre, Sleep Inn Philadelphia is located in Philadelphia. Free WiFi access is available. Each room here will provide you with air conditioning and cable channels. There is also a microwave. Featuring…


Cost of living in Batumi, Georgia

| 37 views | Living in Georgia

This article was originally written as a guest post by Ms. Irina Nikolaeva (written back in 2017) In the article 5 reasons why Batumi is better than Moscow (or other big cities), I specified the low cost of living as…


Home Remodeling - End Of The Season 2

| 3 views | Home Remodeling Photo

Wow, that was a ride. In this post I will write down all major tasks we performed during Summer 2016, which was second year since we started to manage and repair our rural property. Learn more how it all started: Home…


What's Minimum Wage in European Union 2017

| 16 views | Macroeconomics

This is already fourth annual article covering minimum wage and its disproportion among 22 of 28 European Union member countries. Update: Minimum Wages in European Union 2018 Feel free to browse through the archives…


Planting Strawberry Plants In Fall

| 2 views | Home Remodeling Photo

It was at the end of September (2016), when we planted 80 strawberry plants in a field which was prepared few days ago with a tiller. See: Ground Milling With A Tiller Earlier this Summer we planted about 15 strawberry…


Temporary Window For Bathroom

| 3 views | Home Remodeling Photo

This year's (2016) home remodeling works are coming to the end, though one problem were left - a window for bathroom.  As just outer constructions of walls were performed, and there are still a lot to do inside, before…


Carpe Diem Cafe Bar in Tbilisi

| 6 views | Restaurant reviews Photo Georgia

Carpe Diem is a cozy cafe bar in Tbilisi, located between Narikala fortress and Shardeni. Here at Carpe Diem you can try tasty home made burgers and have a herbal tea in pot.  Because of this place been located in a…


Ground Milling With A Tiller

| 1 views | Home Remodeling Photo

During the Summer of 2016 we met some new faces, and so back in July we met with a neighbor (Ok, he is actually living some 10 km from our rural house) with a tractor with tiller - I started to ask about the device,…


Former Archaeological Museum Building in Tbilisi

| 146 views | Tourism objects Photo Georgia

Former Archeological Museum Building in Tbilisi is a great example of the Soviet architecture in Georgia. I had a chance to discover this place and explore surrounding area, first time in February 2017, thanks to the…


Autumn in Latvia

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In today's Piece of Life photo series a story from Autumn 2016 - when almost all major planned home remodeling works for this Summer were finished, in a dank September morning we decided to catch a morning mist by…


Brutal Tours - Explore Soviet Georgian Architecture in Tbilisi

| 24 views | Travel guides Photo

A while ago with a friend of mine (another expat in Georgia) we started an online community on Facebook: Georgia Expat Photographer club. In matter of no time we gathered a critical member count and were looking to…


18 Top Best Selling Asus Laptops in 2017

| 196 views | Laptop Reviews

ASUS laptops continue to be popular in 2017, making up about 20% of best-selling laptop computers on Amazon's TOP 100 best sellers list.  In this article I've listed 18 traditional ASUS laptop models, that will suit…


Inner Wall From AAC Blocks For Pump Room

| 1 views | Home Remodeling Photo

Last home remodeling works are carried out for this end, in today's article - final inner wall from aac blocks, for auxiliary room, where right now just pump is stored in the corner, but it's planned to install a boiler…


UAE Resident: Why Migrate to Georgia

| 2 views | Living in Georgia

This is a guest post by Mrs. Fatima Ali, reader of this blog, who contacted me about possible migration from UAE to Georgia. As lately I've been receiving several such questions and mostly from UAE, after giving some…


DIY - Bookshelf From Wooden Boards

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Time after time I love to excel as a Do-it-yourself guy, for today's DIY article - how i built bookshelf for our rural house from wooden boards. Let's start that we have a complete mess in our master bedroom, as we don…


Restaurant Kala in Tbilisi

| 8 views | Restaurant reviews Photo Georgia

Restaurant Kala in Tbilisi's Old Town actually is one of the first restaurant I've visited once set my foot on Georgian land back in April 2011.  I have spent countless evenings here, enjoying Georgian red wine,…