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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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