Inner Wall From AAC Blocks For Pump Room

13 March, 2017 | Home Remodeling | 8 seen

Last home remodeling works are carried out for this end, in today's article - final inner wall from aac blocks, for auxiliary room, where right now just pump is stored in the corner, but it's planned to install a boiler and washing machine at this part of house soon.

See: Connecting The Dots - Water Pipe And Pump Installation

Pump room

I made foundation for inner wall few days ago, also see how we demolished old walls here: Demolishing Inner Walls To Build AAC Block Walls

First row of aac blocks

Now, for the next Summer (2017), one of the first works we will start with, will be pouring in concrete floors, right now looking on these pictures it seems another epic journey. 

Almost done

UAE Resident: Why Migrate to Georgia

12 March, 2017 | Living in Georgia | 5 seen

This is a guest post by Mrs. Fatima Ali, reader of this blog, who contacted me about possible migration from UAE to Georgia.

As lately I've been receiving several such questions and mostly from UAE, after giving some basic advice, I asked Fatima Ali, could she come up with a short article in a free flow on topic - Why Georgia?

See: Can You Buy a Good Life in Tbilisi With $500 as a Foreign Expat?

With the permission of Mrs. Fatima Ali and little re-editing I publish her honest answer bellow:

As a resident of the UAE vacationing in Georgia and either you've spent a few days or weeks there you cant deny the instant realization you get from the moment you walk out the airport that this country is indeed completely different.

See: All about Georgia

Dubai - a city of so many charms, might seem like the dream, but realistically speaking, and mainly because of the location the weather is its greatest con. Georgia, on the other hand, is the country of a full circle of the 4 seasons available throughout the year.

Beautiful breath taking scenery puts your soul at instant ease,  and if you're someone like me that comes from a big, fast paced city, like Abu Dhabi (the capital of the UAE) you would probably fall in love with the slow paced life style Tbilisi city and Georgia got to offer .

Tbilisi with its architecture, you can get a sense of minimalist medieval Europe without the big city vibe creeping in so much.

The Georgian people are the most genuine kind people I've ever met during my travels and it could be the similar strong family relations and religious bond that got us to get so well together.

In conclusion I would defiantly recommend this country as a travel destination

With the average salary of  UAE resident being $3,083 and the country offering so many affordable packages for tourists you sure wont be disappointed not to mention if your a UAE resident you don't require a visa to visit Georgia.

However if you were to relocate permanently the life style you could acquire with the average salary in Georgia being $365 it would fall short .

If your still thinking of relocating then keep in my mind that the luxurious lifestyle of Dubai isn't something an everyday working class individual in Georgia can afford, so be prepared to leave those expectations behind and enjoy the simplicity and the clear air of Georgia

Now, how about you? Have you thought to relocate to Georgia? If so, what motivates you? Leave a comment, readers and me would love to hear!

DIY - Bookshelf From Wooden Boards

11 March, 2017 | DIY | 8 seen

Time after time I love to excel as a Do-it-yourself guy, for today's DIY article - how i built bookshelf for our rural house from wooden boards.

Let's start that we have a complete mess in our master bedroom, as we don't have any storage to store stuff. A time ago I built a king size bed frame, again from boards, see: DIY - Bed Frame King Size Rural Style, now it was time to put in order that mess.

Mess

Can you find a cat there?

Wooden boards for bookshelf

Those boards are leftovers from roof works done in Summer 2015, see Meet the New Roof (Pictures Before and After)

Almost there

Look who have found a nice shelter

Final result

Restaurant Kala in Tbilisi

10 March, 2017 | Restaurant reviews | 18 seen

Restaurant Kala in Tbilisi's Old Town actually is one of the first restaurant I've visited once set my foot on Georgian land back in April 2011. 

I have spent countless evenings here, enjoying Georgian red wine, listening to great live musicians and of course trying dishes.

I would list Kala as a medium priced place, with pleasant atmosphere and great service.

Interior at Kala restaurant in Tbilisi

Salmon sandwich served with French fries

Basically here at Kala they serves both Georgian and European cuisine. VISA cards accepted.

Connecting The Dots - Water Pipe And Pump Installation

9 March, 2017 | Home Remodeling | 7 seen

This day marks a huge milestone - for the very first day, since house was originally built in 1896 - house will have a fully automatic water supply. 

This day also marks the end of the planned major tasks for Summer 2016. Gosh, that was a mad ride - let me explain, in order to get water supply inside house, at start we had to drill a bore hole, see:Drilling Borehole , then we had to completely rebuild some walls for house and construct both pump room and bathroom. As it might sound straightforward, it involved a lot of planing, managing, constructing a of course money,

Now was the day we could connect the dots, and it started with an excavator arriving in our yard:

Excavator arrives

The magic will start right now.

Excavator in work

Now, that a hell good way to dig a trench, instead of shovel

Trench for water pipes

There is planed to have an automatic water system from one pump both inside house and outside (in future garden oven area), kind of reverse water supply system is built

Pipes inside the house

As you can see, at start it was all about to build rock solid walls

Installing pump

Also working on foundations to build inner wall from aac blocks

Graded soil after water pipe works

Darbnīca Cafe Liepāja

8 March, 2017 | Restaurant reviews | 12 seen

Centrally located on Lielā street in Liepāja, Darbnīca Cafe is another nice addition to my Liepāja restaurant reviews (they are few, I know).

We travel to Liepāja once in a while, during our Summer's in Latvia, mostly for buying some construction materials for our home remodeling works or handling some financial tasks (banks and so on).

It was on early September morning I had to handle something a bank, and we agreed to have some brunch after that. While looking for a parkin spot, we noticed Cafe Darbnīca and agreed to go there after bank,

Unfortunately at 9:30,when we entered Darbnīca brunch was still not available (seems they are serving it from 11:00) and instead of brunch we had a chance to enjoy croissants and some cafe late.

Darbnīca cafe on Lielā street 8, Liepāja

From outside looks like another hipster place, but hey - I love hipsters, they are bizarre and fun. 

Croissant and coffee late

Demolishing Inner Walls To Build AAC Block Walls

7 March, 2017 | Home Remodeling | 12 seen

In today's home remodeling series a story how I continued to build a bathroom and how we demolished an inner wall to later rebuild it from scratch, again with aac blocks.

Let's start with what we got:

Wall to be demolished

All major tasks for this Summer (2016) have been done, what's left - to rebuild two inner walls, one for bathroom, second for pump room. In above picture - pump room.

Demolishing guy

Edgars helped a lot this Summer, he is my demolishing guy today.

Wall being demolished

A very spacious space actually. If at the right - it's planned to store all auxiliary equipment, like water pump, washing machine and boiler, then at this room it's planned to build a kitchen in future.

View from loft

At the left corner - pump room, on the right - bathroom.

Panoramic photography of inside view

I can only agree - a lot of work is still asked.

Preparing works to build aac block wall for bathroom

See: Preparation Works For Bathroom - Breaking Ceiling, Demolish A Wall, Pouring Foundation

First rows of aac block

The outer part of this wall will serve as a wall for electrical cabinet - the brain center of the house.

Almost done

We are almost done with building walls for bathroom - a good start. 

Preparation Works For Bathroom - Breaking Ceiling, Demolish A Wall, Pouring Foundation

5 March, 2017 | Home Remodeling | 5 seen

Ok, it took a long, but here I'm returning to the building bathroom from scratch works

Here is what we are going to do today:

At first we will need to break ceilings or floor at the loft, then we will remove existing inner wall and then we will pour in foundation.

Following works were actually carried out during two days, but for the ease of this article works from both days are featured here in one article.

Loft

Here you can see loft for our house, flooring (if we can call it so) is completely damaged. A year ago, while replacing roof we removed a few tons of sand from here, see: Unloading Few Tones of Sand from Loft

As you can see from image above, outer walls for upcoming bathroom have been already replaced, now it's time to construct inner walls, for doing that we are going to remove a part of ceiling to have a free acess to remove wall which is downstairs.

Wall to be demolished

A lot of hand power and in about and hour it looks like this:

Wall removed

Nicely! Now, we are going to rebuild this wall from aac blocks, but prior to that I'm going to pour in foundation (as there are no foundation at all for this house. A couple of days later my dad, who is an electrician will help us to fix electricity related questions, as I have an idea to install electrical cabinet on the wall to be constructed

Breaking ceiling

A lot of bizarre shapes, I agree.

Digging a trench for foundation

I feel very skilled in foundation works after this Summer's home remodeling experience. 

• Digging a trench around existing foundation - Building a bathroom from scratch - part 4
• Bad Discovery - Missing foundation for house
• Remove a Wall to Finish Foundation Concreting

Foundation for inner wall

Now in the next days I will construct an aac block wall here and hopefully in the Spring 2017 we will finish basic bathroom works with canalization, water, shower and more.

Reading Terminal Market Philadelphia

4 March, 2017 | Shopping Venues | 17 seen

Reading Terminal Market is an enclosed public market found at 12th and Arch Streets in downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Over one hundred merchants offer fresh produce, meats, fish, artisan cheese, groceries, ice cream, flowers, grilled cheese, baked goods, crafts, books, clothing, and specialty and ethnic foods. Every space in the market is rented out; three of the vendors are descendants of original market merchants. The market is open every day of the week. The Pennsylvania Dutch merchants (a small but significant minority) generally do not operate Sunday through Tuesday.

I've been 3 times to the United States, three times I've been to Philadelphia and three times I've been to the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. Reading terminal market should be on very travelers bucket list - it's just awesome.

Reading Terminal market in Philadelphia 

The Reading Terminal Market occupies the ground floor and basement levels of the Reading Terminal's former train shed, now part of the Philadelphia Convention Center. Market stalls occupy the ground floor with entrances on Filbert Street to the south, Twelfth Street to the West, and Arch Street to the North. The stalls are arranged in a grid pattern with an open area in the center with tables and seating. It is full of many different kinds of ceiling fans.

Spataros cheese steaks

My love for Philly cheese steaks starts at Spataros. Once in Philadelphia, not having a cheese steak is the deadliest sin. Have one, try Spataros cheese steaks.

Shrimps, lobsters and other goodies

If i would need to compare Reading Terminal Market, then I would love to compare it with La Rambla market in Barcelona. See: My Barcelona Travel Guide - La Rambla, La Boqueria Market, Park Guell and even La Sagrada Familia

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Seeds

We bought some seeds and are looking to plant some in our rock garden this Summer. 

Cupcakes

Open-air markets flourished in Philadelphia since its founding. Growth of the city demanded more markets, and the string of open-air markets extending from the Delaware River ran for six blocks, or one full mile, prompting the main street (then called 'High Street') to be renamed 'Market Street.' Soon after the markets reached their peak growth and capacity, open-air markets within the city became seen as dirty and unhygienic by the public. The frenzy of activity along the main street was seen as a nuisance and traffic hazard. In 1859, city officials bowed to public pressure and dismantled all of them. This prompted two indoor markets to open at 12th and Market Streets, Franklin Market and Farmers' Market. These two would be the foundation of the Reading Terminal Market.

At Molly Malloy's

Tried some cheese steak here

The World famous Philly Cheese steak

Top 20 Best Touch Screen Laptops

3 March, 2017 | Laptop Reviews | 19 seen

Are you researching your options for a brand new touchscreen laptop? Look no more, in this article I've listed top 20 best-selling touch screen laptop models on Amazon.

Touch screen devices seem have just started to take a throttle, though I remember I had a chance to see first touch screen laptop in action already back in 2012. A brand new or certified refurbished, in 2019 a touch screen laptop can be acquired for as little as under $100 (Galileo Pro 2-in-1 tablet with detachable keyboard). If you prefer some more known brand names, you will find HP, ASUS, DELL and LENOVO among popular touch screen devices in 2019.

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

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Rock Garden Extended

3 March, 2017 | Home Remodeling | 8 seen

It was at the start of the September (2016) - we were finishing wall replacement works and already had installed first bearing beams, there were still some things left on home remodeling works, but all the major tasks were done, and everything was done to preserve house for the winter (as we will be absent)

It was good day to spend some hours in garden and continue shaping our rock garden, please see:

Shaping trail in the rock garden

Gravel and soil from pond is used to form trail and on the sidewals soil for the plants.

Would you believe, if I told you, there was actually a dump bellow the rock garden just a few months earlier? See: The Big Spring Territory Cleanup

Second strawberry harvest at the start of September 2016

We lost out harvest in June to the corvine's, while we were on the trip around Spain, see: 7 days in Spain (Region of Andalusia)

Also see how we built a veggie garden in the boxes: Our First Veggie Garden: Planting Plants in Boxes

Extending rock garden

More gravel from the pile, which is layered over the film and more smaller stones from the field to strengthen outer borders of the rock garden

View towards house

Now, the home remodeling is a large investment, though the improvement of the surrounding territory doesn't ask so much investment but gives a really high added value.

5 reasons why Batumi is better than Moscow (or other big city)

2 March, 2017 | Living in Georgia | 61 seen

This article was originally written as a guest post by Ms. Irina Nikolaeva (written back in 2017)

Last 10 years I was living in big cities.

At that time I moved from a small town in Belarus thinking that I need to live in a city with more people and more opportunities.

I started from St. Petersburg. After 5 years in the cultural capital of Russia, I decided that 5 million people is not enough for me and moved to Moscow. But last year everything changed.

I came to Batumi for the holidays, without a back ticket, thinking that it would be only for 2 weeks or 1-month maximum, but I couldn’t leave this place. There are some reasons why.

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The cost of life. I’m a freelancer. Last year I was working remotely from Moscow. In a month I earn about 1000$. My rented room costed 350$ per month (and it was a cheap price for Moscow), the rest of money I spent on food, transport, health and beauty stuff etc. So in the end of the month I always had only 10$ to buy something to eat. That was really nervous to count each coin choosing what I can buy for food.

Life in Batumi is very cheap comparing to Moscow. My 1 bedroom flat in the center of the city with exciting view and fully equipped has the same price, 350$.

(the view from my balcony)

I can eat in restaurants (middle check for food and drink is 8$), go anywhere by foot or take a taxi (middle price for the taxi is 50 cents). So I’m not nervous what i will eat tomorrow.

Weather and nature. Opening eyes in the morning I see how the sun is rising under the mountains. In the afternoon I take a coffee and go to the beach, to watch the waves and calm down my mind. At night I’m watching the stars sitting on the balcony. While it was -20 in Moscow Batumi was warm and sunny. I don’t need to wear lots of clothes during the half of the year. Honestly, I hate winter with its lack of the sunshine and finally find the best climate for me.

Batumi bay

See: Postcards from Batumi

Health. Well, If i drink less I would be more healthy but anyway here I can buy natural fresh products, drink tap water or buy cheap mineral water from Georgian mountains. My skin and hair feeling excellent, even my eyes are shining like I fell in love.

See: Actual Price Index at Tbilisi Market

People. It is so easy to find friends here. You can meet good people everywhere and they are open for the friendship. They are not busy or too tired with their job and could always find time for you. In Moscow I forgot how it could be, cause everyone was running on the short distance from home to the office. In Moscow I often was so tired of crowd of people as wanted only to close my room, lay under the blanket not communicate with anyone. In Batumi I meet with friends almost every day and I'm enjoying it.

Harmony. So, no stress, people’s support and warmth, beauties of nature, comfort weather, feeling healthy. Is it not a harmony? In this place I can calm down, restore the energy after 10 years career marathon and create new ideas how to achieve my life goals

Outer Walls from AAC Blocks + Installing Bearing Beams

1 March, 2017 | Home Remodeling | 6 seen

As Summer of 2017 is approaching really fast, and I still have so many not post processed images from home remodeling works performed during Summer 206 in Adobe Lightroom library, I decide to extend articles and feature more info in fewer articles.

In today's article I'm sharing a two day construction works performed at the start of September 2016. In day one I continued to construct walls from aerated concrete blocks, and in fact continued to install new rows in the day two + we finally installed two bearing beams, and it's just a matter of time and glue hardening to finish construction works for the so called "pump room" and start thinking of  how to get water supply inside the house from the bore hole we made at the start of Summer (June 2016). 

As Summer is approaching to the end, we have already bought our return tickets back to the Tbilisi - we should keep moving really fast. Unfortunately for the most of the leftover works I was left completely alone. It was stressful, but it was worth of it.

Installing aac blocks

It took me about two weeks to prepare this part of the house, we had to pour in foundation (as there were no foundation at all). The bad thing about foundation it looks there are no foundation for the rest of the house, and it should be noted for next year's construction works.

See how did it started to make things happen at this part of the house:

Row after row

It's not recommended to build more than four rows of aerated concrete blocks per day

View from the left 

I left here after day one.

Installing bearing beams

On the second day with help of a worker we installed bearing beams, yet not supported them permanently, as we will need to align them to make in level. But for now it was a matter to keep roof on place.

A while ago we installed supporting beams for the upcoming bathroom, see:

Loft

It's planned to install a nice wood board floor here next year and speaking of the back wall to construct a large window in the middle, of course that it will involve to remove old boards and built all construction from the scratch. But that's already another story, hopefully for the next Summer, meanwhile take a look how we took a massive chimney down here at the start of Summer (May 2016)

• Taking the Chimney Down

Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal

28 February, 2017 | Railway / Bus / Ferry | 15 seen

There is a super cheap way to travel across the United States using intercity buses. Back in the Summer 2013 I made a long journey from New York to Houston, Texas for about USD 200 per 2 persons using MegaBus. 

Last time I was in the US, we decided to go to Philadelphia from NYC using Greyhound, the ticket price was very cheap some 24 USD, again for two persons. When we traveled back to NYC, we bought even cheaper - USD 10 tickets for return way. 

Either you are on the budget or you just love to travel by buses, greyhound and megabus are great choice. 

The Philadelphia Greyhound Terminal is the primary intercity bus station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at 1001 Filbert Street in Center City Philadelphia, immediately north of The Gallery at Market East shopping mall and the SEPTA Jefferson Station, a few hundred feet east of the Pennsylvania Convention Center and Reading Terminal Market, a few hundred feet south of the Trocadero Theatre and the south edge of Philadelphia's Chinatown district, and within 1/2 mile of Independence Mall, the U.S. Mint, and City Hall. 

Greyhound bus station in Philadelphia

Night Office 2016

27 February, 2017 | Home Remodeling | 4 seen

It's in the far future I will build a fancy working space in our rural country house, for now we are still busy of replacing log walls with aerated concrete blocks.

For now to perform digital nomad activities I'm left with what I have a laptop and high speed internet - and I cannot complain.

See: My Outdoor Working Place During Last Summer (2015)  and My Summer Office 2016

It was on the cold September night, I had to finish some works online, and I opted to enjoy one of the last Summer evenings outside.

It was planed to build a nice outdoor summer terrace for evenings like this, but we didn't managed this year, though it's among top priorities for next home remodeling year.

Night Office 2016

For getting warm I made a small fireplace inside grill. For making long exposure night photography had to use a tripod and really enjoyed light coming out from headlight.

Working scene 2016

Isn't just lovely?