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Another awesome weekend is in the books.

This time we picked up Latvian pilgrim Helmuts Noviks and headed west from Tbilisi toward one of the strangest and most fascinating regions in Georgia - Chiatura. But before reaching the rusty cable cars and fading Soviet facades, we made a stop at one of the country’s oldest settlements - the ancient cave town of Uplistsikhe.

Some investment ideas start with a spreadsheet. Others begin while waiting for pizza.

During a recent trip to Dublin, I took my daughter for dinner at Papa John's. While waiting for the pizza, I did what I often do when visiting a familiar consumer business: I checked whether the company was publicly traded.

Most investing decisions don't happen inside a brokerage account. They happen in everyday life.

Over the years, I've tried to reduce unnecessary spending and make more intentional financial decisions. At the same time, my wife and I try to maintain an active and relatively healthy lifestyle while encouraging the same habits in our daughter. Of course, children are still children.

For more than 10 years I’ve been using a dedicated image field in Drupal content types as a featured image. Back when I originally built the site architecture, this approach made perfect sense. The image field was used for article teasers, category pages, homepage listings, RSS feeds, and later for OpenGraph support so articles would look good when shared on Facebook, Twitter/X, and other social platforms.

At the time, this was considered standard Drupal practice. Every article had a separate “featured image” field, completely independent from the article body itself.

After booking a trip to Ireland with Lufthansa, I found myself doing something I often do when a company catches my attention: looking at its stock and checking whether there are any interesting options opportunities.

A few minutes later, I found myself selling a put option on Lufthansa shares. The trade offered a potential annualized return of approximately 14.5%, while giving me the opportunity to acquire shares at a price I would be comfortable owning.

As we are planning a trip to Ireland this weekend, I decided to take a closer look at the country's stock market.

Actually, this has become a bit of a habit. Whenever I visit a new country, I usually end up researching its stock market, major listed companies, and investment opportunities. The funny thing is that while I often do the research, I rarely get around to writing an article about it. This time I wanted to change that.

At the start of April 2026, we spent about six nights at Titanic Hotel Berlin (Chausseestraße 30). The trip was primarily work-related—my fiancée attended a conference in the translation industry—but it turned into a relaxed family stay, as I tagged along with our child during the Easter school break.

Shot at the end of April 2026, on a calm and lovely Sunday morning, this video started with a simple plan: go out and hunt for morels -  murķeļi. Spring, fresh air, perfect timing… everything looked right.

But plans shifted quickly.

After the first attempts turned up nothing, we didn’t push too hard — instead, we adapted. Rather than chasing mushrooms all day, we pointed the car toward the city of Gori, letting the trip evolve on its own. And that turned out to be the right call.

When planning a family trip to Berlin with children, most travelers immediately think about the Berlin Zoo — and rightly so. But if you are spending a few days in the German capital with younger kids, another solid half-day activity is the LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Berlin

In 2023, we bought Ādģēri in an online auction.

• Price: just over €30,000.
• Financing: ~6% interest.
• Total expected payment over ~5 years: ~€40,000.
• Status (April 2026): more than half already paid.

On paper, it was a bad deal.

At the start of April 2026, during our roughly five-day trip to Berlin, we finally visited the famous Berlin Zoo for the first time - or at least the first time I can actually remember. There is a chance my mom might have taken me here sometime in the early 1990s, but if so, those memories are long gone. This visit felt completely new, and honestly, it turned out to be one of the highlights of our Berlin family trip.

In April 2026, I had my first experience with Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) while flying the Riga–Berlin–Riga route with airBaltic. This was my first time using Berlin’s main international airport, and overall, it left a solid impression—modern, functional, and relatively easy to navigate. About a decade ago, I had the chance to travel through the now-closed Schönefeld Airport.