Venta El Loro is a small tavern located next to the Barbate - Vejer highway, we got here randomly, just passing by. Turned out to be a nice, little tavern, where with the help of sign language (No English here), we managed to order some really delicious Iberian ham and cheese sandwiches. Located in the Natural Park of La Brena and marshes of Barbate, just 3.5 km from the beaches of Barbate and 5 minutes from Zahara de los…
For the first time in my lifetime I has to chance to see an ebb, or more precisely - the result of an ebb - an empty space in te place where a sea should be. That happened at the start of June, somewhere around Barbate, region of Spain.
The result of an ebb
Lonely boats after an ebb
Ebb in Spain
This year our trip in Spain took us to many beaches, and so in today's article, meet another excellent beach - Zahara de los Atunes beach near Barbate. Our today's root started at La Codorniz hotel near Tarifa, followed by visiting Bolonia beach and Duna de Bolonia and most probably will end somewhere in the city of Jerez (thus, we didn't know that yet)Zahara de los Atunes is a village on the Costa de la…
In today's Piece of Liefe series - Sunflower fields in Spain. We continued our route toward Jerez de la Frontera, when suddenly sunflower fields popped out - we had no choice left, if was time to make some panoramic from here.See what we got.
Sunflower fields in Spain
This makes a nice addition to my landscape photography collection, see Vineyards in Tuscany, for example
Sunflower fields and Wind generators
Republic Square in Yerevan definitely is the city's one of main landmarks and popular tourist spots. I first discovered it back at the start of January 2014, and have returned to Yerevan city since then a couple of more times. My latest visit here was in mid-March 2016. On my 29th birthday (back in 2014) had a chance to spend a lovely evening near Dancing Fountains, see: Celebrating Birthday in Yerevan, ArmeniaThe Republic Square …
Duna de Bolonia is located in the Bolonia beach, some 20km west of Tarifa.
This dune is over 30 metres high and 200 metres wide, and stands out within the huge system of dunes to which it belongs. Located in the Bolonia Inlet, within the Estrecho Nature Park, this is one of the most unspoilt areas of the Cádiz coast, a vital natural habitat with stunning scenery.
Duna de Bolonia
The area is called "barjanal" on…
Bolonia beach or Playa Bolonia is located on the shores of Atlantic Ocean some 20 km west of Tarifa. We got here at the start of June, 2016 early in the morning, just after checked out from La Codorniz hotel.The beach and bay is also known as Playa de Bolonia ("Bolonia Beach"), Ensenada de Bolonia ("Bolonia Cove"), or Bolonia Bay. We spent here about a few hours and got the tan for the rest of the Summer. Someone,…
In mid March, 2016 we visited Yerevan again, this time we booked a boutique hotel on Koghbatsi street - Park Hotel.
We booked this hotel on booking.com for about EUR 80 per night, and stayed here for two or three nights (don't remember anymore) and used as our base for further Yerevan's exploration. There are two another hotels in Yerevan I can really suggest - Hotel Meg and Republica hotel. Yerevan's boutique hotels are among the best in…
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup a LEMP stack on Ubuntu 12.04 for serving a Drupal site (s).
Update: I originally started this post to document my setup for actually configuring Nginx server on Ubuntu for Drupal site at the start of 2015. Many things have changed ,ever since, thus most of the written bellow will work.
LEMP is a variation of the ubiquitous LAMP stack used for developing and deploying web applications.…
We were driving around area of Tarifa, it was getting already dark, we hadn't yet booked any hotel. Our hope was that we will easily book some hotel on site. In fact we made a stop at some 3 roadside hotels. hostels but they all were fully booked. At every place I asked could they recommend me something in this area, and La Codrniz was one of the suggestions.
We found La Codorniz hotel located just some 300 meters from beaches, about 5 km…
Batumi is a port city of Georgia, located on the shores of the Black sea.
Pebbled beaches energize you with their natural force and astonish with the beauty of seashells that can easily be found right in the rocks, especially after storms.
For choosing a hotel in Batumi see: 16 Best Batumi Beach / Seaside Hotels
Close to the sea, you will find a new boulevard with lots of boutiques and cafes whereas in the old boulevard you can…
At the start of March 2016, after about a two-year break I visited Batumi again.
This time I was equipped with a DSLR camera, a tripod, and two days of free time.
I decided to capture as much as I can. Result? In the pictures below.
Sunset in Batumi
This photo was taken from the top of the mountain at Argo Entertainment center (you can get there by a cable car)
Batumi Miracle Park
A lot of wonders around here. The Chacha tower,…
We were heading from Gibraltar towards Tarifa, still searching for accommodation for tonight when we were surprised by a natural phenomenon - the mist.
Mist rolling over highway
Mist rolling over highway
It was getting late and dark, we decided to make a stop at local store to buy some goodies and I got an opportunity to capture another natural phenomena - clouds covering the Sun
Sun covered by clouds
Dwelling houses
I have never been to the United Kingdom, today, thus, I had a chance to step a foot on British Overseas territory - Gibraltar. Nope, they are driving the same as in the rest of Europe (left side wheel), but some particles of British taste you can enjoy here definitely.
Approaching Gibraltar from Spain (The Rock of Gibraltar)
There is a quick border control between Spain and Gibraltar. Passengers are not obligated to leave the vehicle.…
Cafe-Bar El Hacho in Gaucin proudly bears hundredth cafe name featured on blog. See all the rest 100 restaurant reviews.We made a quick stop here, just shortly we left Ronda (Ronda Bridge) and took a small tapas and coffee con - lece's here. Inside sun terrace with outdoor poolOutdoor poolLight meal and freshly squeezed orange juiceOur bill here - around EUR 10.00Cafe-Bar El Hacho in Gaucin, Spain
I have been using Drupal + Mapping for years already. My most favorite combination Location + Gmap module for entering and displaying location info.
Recently I did upgrade for Gmap module for this blog and things went wrong - customized province names disappeared and... Marker Clusterer icons were gone soon afterwards. My first thoughts were that latest Gmap module have done something wrong, turned out I was wrong. My next idea was it's…
The Puente Nuevo (New Bridge) or as we called it - Ronda Bridge is the newest and largest of three bridges that span the 120-metre (390 ft)-deep chasm that carries the Guadalevín River and divides the city of Ronda, in southern Spain.We had a chance to visit the Puente Nuevo at the start of June (temperature that day was about 40 Celsius), for me, as for an eager excelling photographer this was a nice…
We visited Ronda, town in Spain' with one particular goal - to visit and photograph the bridge of Ronda. It was very hot day at start of June. We parked our car in a good distance from our destination and started to explore Ronda. One of our first stops were at Siempre Igual tapas bar.It was already midday, a siesta has been started already so we opted for some tapas. Siempre Igual Tapas Bar in RondaMussel tapasFor about 6 EUR,…
I wish I was writting down names of all those lovely places, we visited in Costa Del Sol in Spain, as I marked just the major spots. Today we were heading from Marbela, via Estepona towards Ronda, I made following pictures somewhere in the middle.
Pink boat
Costa Del Sol beach
White village in Spain
Free SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt certify are issued for a short 3 month term. I first enabled secure HTTPS pages around at start of 2016, and now it's time to renew SSL.
The following tutorial is written for Nginx, but should work for Apache as well (with minor modifications)
Stop Nginx
sudo service nginx stop
To trigger the renewal process for all installed domains, run this command:
sudo /opt/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto…
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