Blog Archive: August 2021

Putraimi - guest house and recreational area near Kuldīga

31 August, 2021 | Hotel reviews | 14 seen

Putraimi recreational area is located in Snēpele parish, Kuldīga municipality, some 170 km from nation's capital.

I discovered this place by a chance in the Summer of 2021, and though I didn't stay overnight here I would love to return here and have some outdoor barbecue in the future.

Here at Putraimi, they have several ponds with fish. Outdoor lovers and fishing enthusiasts will enjoy this place.

Contact details:

(+371) 29181329 - Aija

putraimos@inbox.lv

Top 10 Best Selling Laptop Computers September 2021

30 August, 2021 | Laptop Reviews | 9 seen

In this article, I've listed the top 10 best selling laptops models on Amazon in the month of September 2021

As a proud owner of brand new Macbook Air, I find it logic that 3 spots are taken by Apple - really great laptop.

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on the Amazon site, I might earn an affiliate income from that. Prices for laptop computers listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and is updated daily. For actual prices please refer to the product page on Amazon.

• All-Day Battery Life – Go longer than ever with up to 18 hours of battery life.
• Powerful Performance – Take on everything from professional-quality editing to action-packed gaming with ease. The Apple M1 chip with an 8-core CPU delivers up to 3.5x faster performance than the previous generation…

Lagodekhi and Kakheti trip

27 August, 2021 | Living in Georgia | 8 seen

Lagodekhi & Kakheti Trip - our first real camping trip with a tent at Lagodekhi national park in Georgia.

Enjoying a wide variety of grapes at Ampelo resort and picking up hazelnut with a retired colonel at Chateau Bruale in Kakheti. Enjoy the video and thumbs up!

August 20-21, 2021

Ampelo Resort Kardenakhi

26 August, 2021 | Hotel reviews | 31 seen

Ampelo Resort is located in the Kardanaki village some 2 hour drive from the Tbilisi. Reosrt feature a restaurant, bar, a shared lounge, and a garden.

There is an outdoor / infiniti pool, but at the time we visited this place it seemed the water is not heated (unlike in some other Kakhetian resorts, like Lopota lake, for example) 

We booked a family room for a one night stay at this hotel at the end of August 2021 and paid GEL 480 ( USD 150) for that.

Boasting room service, this property also provides guests with a barbecue. The hotel features an outdoor swimming pool, evening entertainment and a 24-hour front desk.

Guests at the hotel can enjoy a buffet or a vegetarian breakfast.

Ampelo Resort offers a sun terrace.

We enjoed at lot the kid corner with a trampoline and wide variety of grapes 

The nearest airport is Tbilisi International, 76 km from the accommodation, and the property offers a paid airport shuttle service.

7 Dividend Stocks To accumulate while selling Put options for extra income

25 August, 2021 | Options trading | 101 seen

In today's article, I'm going to talk about 7 dividend stocks I don't mind having in my portfolio and how I'm generating additional semi-passive income by selling put options (or credit spreads) on them.

Disclosure:  I'm not a financial advisor and I don't give you any advice here, I'm just sharing my own experience. Investments in stocks, funds, bonds, or cryptos are risk investments and you could lose some or all of your money. Do your due diligence before investing in any kind of asset. 

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Dividend stocks are companies that pay out regular dividends. Dividend stocks are usually well-established companies with a track record of distributing earnings back to shareholders.

A put option is a contract giving the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell–or sell short–a specified amount of an underlying security at a pre-determined price within a specified time frame. This pre-determined price that buyer of the put option can sell at is called the strike price.

A credit…

The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia

24 August, 2021 | Museums | 46 seen

The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia is an open-air museum located just outside Riga, the capital of Latvia, on the lightly wooded shores of Jugla Lake.

The museum currently occupies 87 hectares and displays 118 buildings, as well as more than 3,000 items. Most of Latvia's historical ethnic groups are represented in the museum. The museum's collection holds approximately 150,000 artifacts.

Despite being a native of Riga, I first visited this place back in the Summer of 2021

In 1924, the Latvian Council of Monuments signed an order to create the open-air museum in Riga.

The idea for the new museum was inspired by open-air museums in Scandinavia, particularly Skansen in Stockholm.

The plan was to relocate a homestead from all four regions of Latvia – Courland, Zemgale, Vidzeme and Latgale – to the museum.

Each of the buildings would represent the different crafts of each area. The new museum acquired land from a state land fund in the sandy dunes near Jugla Lake, just outside the city. In 1928, the first building, a barn from Vestiena parish was relocated and rebuilt in the museum. In 1932, the museum was opened to the…

Top 18 Gaming PCs with Intel Core I9 Processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090

23 August, 2021 | Laptop Reviews | 99 seen

Looking for some incredibly fast machine?

Think PC with Intel Core i9 processor and the powerful NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card.

The GeForce RTX™ 3090 is a big ferocious GPU (BFGPU) with TITAN class performance. It’s powered by Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture—doubling down on ray tracing and AI performance with enhanced Ray Tracing (RT) Cores, Tensor Cores, and new streaming multiprocessors. Plus, it features a staggering 24 GB of G6X memory, all to deliver the ultimate gaming experience.

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on the Amazon site, I might earn an affiliate income from that. Prices for laptop computers listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and is updated daily. For actual prices please refer to the product page on Amazon.

Batumi From a Drone Flight 2020

20 August, 2021 | Living in Georgia | 13 seen

Beautiful Batumi from a bird's flight. DJI Mini Mavic 2.7K drone footage August 5th, 2020 Lovingly post-processed in Tbilisi just now Music by Scott Holmes, Driven to Success While shooting this footage almost crashed my little drone to the Alphabetic tower while doing circuit cinematic flight

Abano Mineral Lake Natural Monument

19 August, 2021 | Lakes | 56 seen

Abano Mineral Lake Natural Monument is a small lake in Kazbegi Municipality in Truso valley on the left bank of Terek River, to the east of the village Abano at 2,127 m above sea level.

First discovered back in Summer of 2021, during the Kazbegi trip

The lake was created by a carbon dioxide filled underground stream flowing to the surface through carbonate rocks from the late Jurassic period.

The lake "boils" loudly with carbon dioxide bubbles bursting. The outflow of the stream is 2.5 million liters per 24 hours. 

The total surface area of the lake is 0.04 ha. The emission of gas in calm weather causes carbon dioxide to accumulate in lower levels. Small animals suffocate when they get near the lake, which is why there are dead animals there, such as mice, lizards, frogs and some birds.

Nīcava restaurant

17 August, 2021 | Restaurant reviews | 12 seen

Restaurant Nīcava is located in Nīca town, Latvia. some 230 km from the nation's capital Riga, sandwiched between Liepāja and Jūrmalciems.

We paid here a short stop in mid-July 2021, while traveling to the Pape beach

Turns out there is both a motel/guest house and a restaurant. Restaurant here serves typical Latvian cuisine. 

Quite a nice place. We enjoyed here something from the grill menu and a few drinks.

Best stock options trading platform in Georgia (and most of the rest of the World)

16 August, 2021 | Living in Georgia | 26 seen

I've been trading stocks for about 20 years, I still remember the days around the millennium when I visited the bank office in person to place a stock buy or sell order. 

Not so long away, me too - I was on the searches for the best online discount broker.

My online searches found Degiro and Interactive Brokers.

Back when I was looking to open my account, Interactive Brokers asked for a minimum deposit of USD 10,000, which I didn't have at that moment.

And then a blog reader pointed to the Lynx Broker.  Actually, I'm using Lynx Broker to this day. As Lynx Broker is affiliated to Interactive Brokers (they use the same TWS platform) - when friends and family asking for recommendation, I just skip the Lynx part (sorry, for that, this is still great broker platform, just the commission fee for the US securities is a bit high, though are very cheap for European securities) - and point straight to the Interactive Brokers, nowadays you can open an account without a minimum capital, and fees are low (some qualify for free)

Disclosure:  This article contains affiliate links to the Interactive Brokers website…

Summer in Latvia 2021

13 August, 2021 | Travel guides | 5 seen

Summer in Latvia 2021 or this is how we spent an awesome one month in Latvia.

From getting a vaccine at Akropolis shopping mall in Riga to wild beaches near Pape.

From a wooden boat in Pāvilosta to yacht in Ķīšezers.

Made a ton of hyper lapses, ate a ton of birthday cakes, and more. Enjoy the video!

How To add Pixelate effect Adobe Premiere Pro

12 August, 2021 | Digital Photography School | 767 seen

Recently I faced an issue with a video uploaded to YouTube, the video featured parts that needed to be removed or pixelated. After a quick google search I found this awesome video tutorial, and here is how:

From the Effects panel search for 'mosaic' - > choose from Stylize and apply Mosaic to all clip

If you are looking to pixelate just a part of the video, say a face or body, from the effect Control window, under the Mosaic, select oval shape (or square)

To make it automatically track a person, from the Mask path, click the play button (but before that, make sure you are at the start of the clip)

Hope it helps!

Hotel Butterfly House in Pāvilosta

11 August, 2021 | Hotel reviews | 36 seen

Set some 3 km from the city center of Pāvilosta  Butterfly House offers accommodation with free WiFi, BBQ facilities, a garden, and free private parking.

We booked this place for a 2-night stay in mid-July and paid EUR 266. We chose this hotel as we were looking for some nice place to stay and throw a birthday party for our 3-year-old daughter. It seems we booked the most spacious room, some 100m2 and were able to accomodate up to 8 guests, which we actually did, some of our birthday guess stayed overnight.

We had a chance to grill some meat in front of the house, which we bought at the local Pāvilosta shop

Turns out, the place is owned  by the same guy, who owned Fontaine Royal hotel in Liepāja), and seems they have took some things from Liepāja, Deli snack for example

Hotel Fontaine Royal Review In Liepāja

Quite nice, we had a chance to order some foow here at hotel. Very nice.

All units comprise a seating area with a sofa, a dining area, and a fully equipped kitchen with various cooking facilities, including a fridge, a stovetop and a toaster. For added convenience, the property can provide…

Guest house Otrā Elpa in Valka

10 August, 2021 | Hotel reviews | 8 seen

Otrā Elpa is located in the center of Valka. Guests are welcome to use free Wi-Fi in all areas of this property.

I have stayed in this hotel a few times, and last time did it so back in the mid-July 2021, when had a quick trip to Valka and nearby area

Decorated in light colours, all rooms here will provide you with cable TV and a table. Private bathrooms also come with a shower.

For a stay here with some hearty brekfast I paid about EUR 50

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