Blog Archive: November 2018
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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Batumi / Paragraph hotel / Natakhtari airfield
We’re thrilled to share our latest short film showcasing the breathtaking beauty and unique experiences of the Adjara region in Georgia! This time, we ventured to Batumi and the luxurious Paragraph Resort & Spa Shekvetili, Autograph Collection, and we can’t wait for you to join us on this journey.Our adventure began with an exciting flight…
How To Install XTRF 8 on Ubuntu 18.04
| 34 views |XTRF is a Polish translation management system available to install as SAAS or on your own server (both Windows and Linux). In today's article, I will keep notes on how to install XTRF 8 on Ubuntu 18.04 Our company has…
Documentary about The Winter War 1939 (Soviet Union vs Finland )
| 2 views |A very well documented documentary about the Winter War fought back in 1939. About defensive war and great guerilla tactics to fight a more powerful army. The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet…
Documentary about Kazakhstan: The new green superpower? Oil giant tries to wean itself off the black stuff
| 0 views |An interesting documentary from the Guardian. About Solar panels, renewable and green energy. Kazakhstan should be on every investor radar. See also: Invest in Kazakhstan - Peer to Peer lending loans up to 21% Yield…
Tbilisi TV Tower in the National colors of Latvia
| 0 views |The Tbilisi TV tower was lit in the Latvian nation colors on November 18th, 2018, to celebrate a 100 year anniversary since the Republic of Latvia was proclaimed on November 18, 1918 As I had the great observation…
How To Sync Files Between Samsung Galaxy Phones (Smart Switch)
| 25 views |Samsung Smart Switch seamlessly transfers contacts, photos, music, videos, messages, notes, calendars and more to virtually any Samsung Galaxy device. After we bought a new Samsung Galaxy A6 phone I thought it will be…
Samsung Galaxy A6 32GB (2018) Review
| 6 views |Samsung Galaxy A6 was first released in May 2018. We bought it as the replacement phone for Samsung Galaxy A3, to whom glass cracked on the rocks in Georgia (in the yard of Iosebis Duqani) while we traveled to the…
Ordering Goodies From Amazon - Baby Play Mat and more
| 6 views |It has been a while since I made my first international Amazon delivery to Georgia, using parcel delivery and forwarding service USA2Georgia. See how I ordered and installed new hinges for my old HP laptop back in 2014…
Top Dividend Paying Stocks from Nasdaq Baltic I'm Planning to Acquire in 2019
| 6 views |I've been investing in the Baltic equity market since April 2017, currently (2018) my capital has been exposed to 16 companies listed on the Nasdaq Baltic stock exchange giving a combined dividend yield (after two years…
DEL to TBS: Cheap Direct Flights from Delhi to Tbilisi From February 2019
| 2 views |Starting February 2019, the largest Indian airline, Indigo, will operate daily Delhi-Tbilisi direct flights. The following was reported on November 14, 2018, by the company TAV Georgia, which owns the Tbilisi airport…
Drupal 7 Rules: Send E-mail to User Referenced by NID After Saving Content
| 8 views |A time ago I started to work on a custom Drupal powered translation management system, unfortunately as I didn't have much spare time and actually there are really great alternatives (paid) out there - I decided to…
Documentary "The Black August. Default" About Russia's Financial Crisis in 1998
| 14 views |20 years ago, Russia experienced one of the most devastating crises in its recent history — on 17 August 1998 the government defaulted. Today I watched an interesting documentary in Russian - Черный август. Дефолт,…
Rainy Day in Tbilisi
| 1 views | PhotoLess than a month ago, we changed apartment in Tbilisi and got one with really cool views towards mount Mtatsminda. I've been playing with a tripod a camera here ever since. See: Tbilisi by night (New apartment version…
Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas in Kyiv
| 11 views | Photo UkraineThe Trinity Monastery of St. Jonas is a Ukrainian Orthodox monastery in the Kievan neighborhood of Zverinets, a short distance from the medieval Vydubychi Monastery. We discovered this monastery back in 2017 when…
Postcards from Mtskheta 2
| 3 views |Mtskheta is a small and lovely town located some 20 km from nation' s capital Tbilisi. Some will find a lot of similarities in Mtskheta with the town of Sighanghi, while others will enjoy architectural and religious…
Top 5 Luxury & Spa Hotels in Kvareli, Georgia
| 3 views | Collections GeorgiaHere are the top 3 reasons to visit and stay in Kvareli - health spas, culturally diverse food & beautiful forests. Kvareli is one of the most popular SPA hotel destinations in Georgia, or at least in the region of…
Hryshko National Botanical Garden in Kiev
| 14 views | Photo UkraineTurns out there are at least two botanical gardens in Kiev. In today's article, I will write and provide photographs from Hryshko National Botanical Garden taken back in Summer 2017. Apparently, we got here by a taxi …
Shio-Mgvime monastery
| 7 views | Photo GeorgiaThe Shio-Mgvime monastery is a medieval monastic complex in Georgia, near the town of Mtskheta. It is located in a narrow limestone canyon on the northern bank of the Kura River, some 30 km from Tbilisi, Georgia’s…
Hotel Gino Wellness Mtskheta Review
| 6 views | Photo GeorgiaThere are at least two Gino Wellness hotels in Georgia (probably more), one is located in the Rabati Fortress in the town of Akhaltsikhe and the other one is located really close to Tbilisi, in Mtskheta. In today's …
October 2018 Dividend Income Report - $168.10
| 6 views |Welcome to the eighteenth (#18) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and cryptocurrencies) in October 2018. In case you are wondering why I'm…
Halloween 2018
| 1 views | PhotoHalloween 2018, was celebrated on Wednesday, October 31. This was our first Halloween together with our newborn baby and we made some really cool photos and video's in our new Tbilisi apt. But as each year,it's all…