Hotel Kopola in Tskneti Review

| Hotel reviews | 24 seen

Hotel Kopola is located in Tskneti, the suburbs of Tbilisi. Kopola Hotel features an indoor pool, a green garden, and a sun terrace with sun beds. There is a bowling alley at the hotel and guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant. I have been…

How To Prepare Traditional Borscht Soup at Home

| Food blogger | 28 seen

Borscht is a sour soup common in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. In English, the word "borscht" is most often associated with the soup's variant of Ukrainian origin, made with red beetroots as one of the main ingredients, which give the dish its…

Coffeeshop Company Tbilisi

| Restaurant reviews | 34 seen

Coffeeshop Company is located on Mosashvili street 11 in Tbilisi and despite the interesting name - they actually serve nice brunch menus here and of course some coffee.  Discovered by chance, when looking for brunch menus. As this place is…

Notes from Tbilisi: Trading German Energy stocks, Dealing with Binance to transfer BUSD to Coinbase

| Living in Georgia | 13 seen

Greeting from Tbilisi. The weather is hot, air conditioners are running, but the autumn winds are also present.  This morning I was looking at two European Stocks to trade options with Dutch ING bank or German E.ON. It turned out a holiday in…

Nida Pebble Beach

| Tourism objects | 23 seen

Nida Pebble beach is the most Southern public beach of Latvia located on the Baltic sea shores just 1 km from the Lithuanian border. The pebble beach is quite uncharacteristic for a typical Latvian seaside beach and that already a good reason to…

Cafe Somersēta in Aglona

| Restaurant reviews | 32 seen

Cafe Somersēta is located on Somersētas street in Aglona town, the region of Latgale in Latvia. We discovered this place by a chance shortly before visiting the famous catholic cathedral in Aglona. It seems the place is very popular among tourists…

Piloru oak grove

| Tourism objects | 17 seen

Pilori Oak grove is located on the banks of Lake Ežezers in the region of Latgale. Total area is about 19.6 ha It is one of the rare oak groves in Latvia with a nature protection status granted already in 1928. The oldest oaks are around 300-400…

Tbilisi by Night

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Tbilisi by night is very beautiful. Time after time I love to take out my DLSR camera and tripod to experiment with nighttime photography - long exposures, high ISO. Nighttime photography can be very creative.  In today's Piece of Live series…

Lake Ežezers

| Lakes | 26 seen

Lake Ežezers is located in Kraslava municipality, in Ezernieku and Andzeļu parishes. It is the richest island lake in Latvia and even in the whole Baltic region. There are 35 islands in a total area of 77.6 ha and 70 islands formations or shoals.…

MyHeritage DNA test, flight to Tbilisi, Stock Recovery

| Genealogy | 80 seen

Today was the last day in Riga and Latvia for a while. No More Vilgale, no more Ječi, and no more Riga until Spring 2023 (earliest). QSI school started today in Tbilisi, but we will still skip the first days and should start our new school year…

Coffee shop KUUP, Rēzekne

| Restaurant reviews | 24 seen

Kuup coffee shop is a chic place in Rēzekne, which offers coffee roasted in Latgale.  We found this place by a chance, thanks to TripAdvisor when searching for top restaurants in Rēzekne. We arrived here for some 40km from Varakļāni, just to…

The Sacred Heart Cathedral of Rēzekne

| Churches and Monasteries | 22 seen

The Sacred Heart Cathedral of Rēzekne is located in Rēzekne, Latvia. I briefly visited this cathedral at the start of August 2022, during my birthday trip to the region of Latgale On the site occupied by the church, there existed a wooden temple…

A Rare Miss: One Day Off the Blogging Grid

| Blogging | 12 seen

On August 21st, I regrettably missed a day of blogging—an uncommon occurrence, though not entirely unprecedented. Today nearly slipped by as well, but I’m committed to maintaining consistency whenever possible.This lapse can be attributed to an…

Rēzekne Castle ruins

| Military Heritage | 20 seen

Rēzekne Castle ruins are located in the downtown of Rēzekne, Latvia, a city in the center of Latgale. The castle served as a base of the local Livonian order landlords until the 16th century and also as the main military support base for battles…

Stargazing in Ječi, Boat Riding in Laidi, Stock Trading in Vilgāle

| Stock Portfolio | 29 seen

Yesterday we traveled to Ječi to move the lawn, grill a fish and use it as a camp base before visiting a pebbled beach near Nida close to the Latvian/Lithuanian.Our new favorite shop - LIDL, fish is awesome and the rest is good too. We are lucky to…