Blog Archive: June 2021
Hotel Abastumani Residence
Located in Abastumani village, this hotel features a shared lounge, garden, BBQ facilities, and free WiFi. Featuring family rooms, this property also provides guests with a terrace. The accommodation provides a 24-hour front desk, room service, and currency exchange for guests.We booked a family room for one night stay in mid-June 2021, and paid for that GEL 350 (with breakfast included). The place seems nice, kid friendly. We enjoyed our brief stay here a lot. Abastumani residenceSurrounded by pine trees, the area of Abastumani is a popular health resort. All units are equipped with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, fridge, a kettle, a shower, a hairdryer and a…
Vilgāle Winter Edition
Made a quick stop at Vilgāle today to check how our apt renovation works are going and made this short drone footage.
There is some recreational potential at Vilgāle. There is a guest house, a Montessori school, some shop (s), and a huge Vilgales lake (a couple of months ago I met some Aussies here). Quite often properties go from the hammer in this village. they just sold kindergarten for EUR 20K (we wanted to buy, but hell - what would we do with a kindergarten)
DJI Mavic Air 2, February 27, 2021
Music by Scott Holmes: Hotshot
Green Cape near Batumi
Green cape is one of the most beautiful places in Georgia, located just some 9 km outside of Batumi. Batumi Botanical Garden is located within Green Cape's picturesque setting. You can reach Green cape from Batumi by a taxi or bus.Pebbled beach at Green capeThere are several cafes located in and within a close proximity to Green cape. The main entrance to the Batumi Botanical garden also is located here.Green Cape and a pierThis place has also some special place in our hearts, as back in the Summer of 2012, we camped overnight here at had a very very nice Summer Solstice (June 23) with grilled meat and a morning swim in the salt waters of the Black sea. Sweet memories.…
Javakheti Trip
One of the strangest weekend trips, - from the Russian Tsar favorite places in Abastumani to the footsteps of Khertvisi fortress which, rumor has it, Alexader the Great has visited.
From the Georgian Cave towns in Vardzia to friendly Armenians in Ninotsminda and back to Russian Dukhobor settlements near the beautiful lakes of Saghamo, Paravani, and Tsalka reservoir, not to mention tasty Belgian chocolate from the Phoka Monastery.
Strange, but awesome. Thumbs up!
How To Update to PHP 7.4 Ubuntu 16.04 Drupal 7 Nginx
I was facing problems with some Drupal modules not being supported, before upgrading to PHP 7.4 version.
As I had running Ubuntu 16.04 server with Nginx and PHP 7.0 FPM on in I felt a bit afraid performing a live update and decided to make a new backup for all settings.
Here I found some good advice: How To Install PHP 7.4 on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04/16.04
and also for Drupal specific things took my own advice from here: How to Install Drupal with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.4, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 - Linode Guide
Install PHP 7.4 on Ubuntu 18.04/16.04
Step 1: Add PHP PPA Repository
We’ll add ppa:ondrej/php PPA repository which has the latest build packages of PHP.…
Hotel Dalis Mta
Hotel Dalis Mta is located some 35 kilometers from the Dedoplitskaro town, right next to the Dalis Mta water reservoir in the Chachuna managed area.We had a chance to stay here overnight at the start of June 2020, as the trip was organized by a German friend, he was the one who found and booked this place. The hotel charged GEL 50 per person, plus an additional GEL 30 dinner and an additional GEL 30 breakfast. If you are into grilling I guess it shouldn't be a problem to prepare a grill (as long as you have firewood and meat with you)We booked this place in the frames of a weekend trip to Chachuna managed area, visiting mud volcanoes, eagle canyon and Big Shirtaki airfieldSolar panels…
Vashlovani Trip
Epic Georgia! Epic Vashlovani!
Another awesome weekend recorded. Crossing desert sand, meeting more than 30 turtles, reaching man-built Chachuna reservoir, stepping in volcano mud puddles.
With an overnight stay in a camp base powered by solar power. Reaching Eagle canyon near Dedoplitskaro and having fun at abandoned Russian airfields in the middle of nowhere.
Many thanks to Ralph Schmidt for making this trip happen.
June 5-6, 2021
Hilton Batumi Hotel Review
Located in the centre of Batumi, just 200 m from the Black Sea coast, Hilton Batumi is a pet-friendly 5-star hotel offering a modern interior design and high-quality facilities. Dolphinarium is 300 m from the hotel and Europe Square is 900 m away.We booked this 5-star Hilton Batumi hotel for a 3-night stay at the end of May 2021 and paid about GEL 2400 / USD 772.Price included a junior suite executive room with excellent views from the 19th floor, access to the executive lounge for some light snacks, a salty swimming pool, gym, and some more perks (breakfast), as we arrived in Batumi by plane, we didn't have to concern about parking.In the past, we have stayed in many Batumi hotels, but…
Batumi and Green Cape
Another awesome weekend has been in our tapes - this time we booked a Tbilisi - Batumi flight by Vanilla Sky (it's super cheap and takes only 50 minutes to get there), a 5-star Hilton Hotel with executive views + gym and saltwater pool access.
Visited Green Cape + Botanical garden. Pink ice cream is still our favorite. Made a ton of hyper lapses and experimented with keyframing (fast forward in Adobe Premiere).
Enjoy and thumbs up!