Blog Archive: November 2014
Spontaneous Visit of Montserrat Mountain, Spain
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Another spontaneous idea of visiting Montserrat Mountain arrived at our heads, after Google Maps misguided us from the main traffic road to Barcelona, and we went on the wrong direction - but hey - we noticed a sign directing to Montserrat.
Signs speak themselves.
Update: Visit of Mount Montserrat was a place from our about week long travels across region of Catalonia in Spain and Andorra. (Originally this article featured 18 bad quality pictures, 2 years latter since originally created this article, I reviewed both article and pictures and made some post-processing for photography in Adobe Lightroom). Now, I feel a bit sorry about myself I can't travel back in time and capture much much better photography, as back then (2014) I was just like another typical tourist flash lighting around with my point and shoot camera. Sad. On the other hand p Montserrat Mountain is a place I would love to return and will definitely return here!
Montserrat Mountain
Montserrat is a multi-peaked rocky range located near the city of Barcelona, in …
Hotel Gaspa Review in Ordino, Andorra
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One thing I like about travel - is to choose hotels on site (who needs a booking systems? ).
So did happen this time, when we chose this 2 star hotel in Ordino, Andorra. As you might already now, Andorra is a tinny micro state sandwiched between Spain and France, so if you travel here by car, it's nothing tragic to drive out of capital city Andorra La Vella to find your perfect hotel.
After few minutes drive, we found ourselves in town/village called Ordino, and found a hotel just one the left side of high-way (I would call it street, rather a highway).
In overall - perfect 2 star hotel, for nice price - got this for EUR 40 with breakfast included, and it has a free parking on site.
Here are few pictures I managed to take at Hotel Gaspa, Ordino
Queen size bed at Hotel Gaspa
Room comes with a balcony
Balcony at Hotel Gaspa
View from balcony
Bathroom at Hotel Gaspa
Bathroom at Hotel Gaspa
About OrdinoOrdino is the most northerly parish in the Principality of Andorra. Ordino is also the name of the main town…
Andorra - First Impressions
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Have you ever heard something of a tiny microstate of Andorra? I had, but my knowledge was short - so short, I didn't realize the precise location of it - I mean, I knew it's somewhere sandwiched between Spain, France or maybe France and Italy or even Spain and Portugal. In other words - yes I knew that such a place exists, but knew nothing more about it. Now I'm a little bit smarter in my Geography :)
So, how I got there? It all went spontaneous - after a couple of days in Spain, we decided, hey let's drive to Andorra. And we did.
My overall impression of Andorra right now - it's some tax haven, it's kinda outlet center (buy cheap - no or minimum taxes here).
And yes, it's sandwiched between Spain and France, and it's somehow related to Catalonia.
P.S. I'm somehow imagining Georgia (a country I'm currently living in) one day might become a very similar place to Andorra.
So here are some pictures I did take while in Andorra:
Entering Andorra La Vella
Scooters are popular in Andorra
Outlets malls in Andorra
Andorra La Vella
City centre of…
This day for history
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At first- I am too tired and wordless to write a 500 words/day minimum word post.
Second - decided to stop cycling in unsafe streets of Tbilisi.
Third - my blog cracked 20,000 unique visitors in total (counting since October 2013)
Forth - yesterday seems affiliate sales generated me more than $100
There are days we should be happy about our existence and complain less about things we don't have. Though, something bad almost happened today with me. I decided to take it as a lesson to be more thankful for every day I m living on this planet.
P.S. Learn that I have reached age of Saturn Return.
Take care!
Road to Andorra
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During our one week trip in Spain, region of Catalonia, we did a lot of driving. We drove almost all around Catalonia, stayed at lovely Costa Brava townlets - and you know what? It's more than enough with one week - and you are sick and tired of completely identical seaside town lets. They are nice, they are charming... but if you need more - go away from those charming town lets with beautiful seaside views.
At least we did so - after another charming tay at lovely resort town of Sitges, we decided to head to Andorra. Drive to Andorra from Barcelona (or Sitges) will take around 2hours. Here is some picures I managed to capture:
Road to Andorra
Spectacular roads in Spain
Flag of Catalonia
Road signs directing to Andorra
Tunnels in Spain
Mountainous road
Mountains
Manor
Drive to Andorra
Lake
Town let close to border of Andorra
:)
Andorra La Vella
Streets of Andorra
About AndorraAndorra is a sovereign landlocked…
How Amazon Affiliates get paid in Republic of Georgia - Part 1
| Living in Georgia | 155 seen
How participants of Amazon Associates program are getting paid in the Republic of Georgia by a bank check is a blog series I originally made at the end of 2014 / start of 2015 while struggling to redeem my first bank check issued by Amazon,
Although it's still technically possible to withdraw bank checks in Georgia, at the end of 2016, I flew to the US and opened a bank account there, see: How To Open A Bank Account in the U.S., As A Non-resident Non - citizen, Wells Fargo Bank
For complete series of my adventures while living in Georgia with Georgian banks and checks from Amazon, please see:
- How Amazon Affiliates get paid in the Republic of Georgia - Part 1
- How Amazon Associates Receives Their Checks in the Republic of Georgia - Part 2
- How Amazon Associates Receives Their Checks in the Republic of Georgia - Part 3 - Waiting 40 Working Days
- How Amazon Associates Receives Their Checks in the Republic of Georgia - Part 4 - Bank Commission Fees
I have a feeling this will be a long and fun experience on how to get paid in the Republic of Georgia by Amazon Associates checks :)
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My Online Income Report - October 2014
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Welcome to my monthly income report - this time covering month of October 2014.
In brief:
Things kinda went wrong - after 2 great months with Amazon Affiliate, October earnings decreased, not tragically, but decreased.
How much my blog earned in month of October 2014- In total I earned $142.81, what is a -50.28% decrease if compared to previous month ($287.25)
- $142.81 makes average $4.6 a day
Thus, my earnings in month of October decrease by around a half, it still managed to became a second best month, in terms of online income
Obliviously I started to wonder - why does income this month is lower - and if honest I didn't find a good explanation. I have just one assumption - October was a slow month for retail sales, why? Have no idea! Maybe in October people have less money to spend?
See - there is nothing wrong with traffic to my blog, it even increased for 42% in month of October, so I cannot explain this with lost traffic. Even clicks to Amazon increased sharply, but conversation rates decreased from…
Sitges - a Popular Resort Town in Spain
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During our Spain trip, we visited many interesting towns and places, like town of Girona, Salvadors Dali museum at Figueras, charming stone building town Peratallada, Begur, Roses and Cadaques and other. Now was turn for a popular resort town of Sitges, located close to Barcelona.
As usual I don't pay much attention for a new exploring object before visiting it - and it was fun latter to learn that Sitges is not only popular resort town in Spain, but it's a very popular destination for gay and lesbian travellers from all over the world. Well - quite an interesting fact about this town :)
I didn't pay much attention is there much gay/lesbian travellers (Seen some of them - like men kissing in the beaches and so on). What I found - Sitges probably is popular destination for surfers as well - seen pretty much surfers here (Maybe gay and lesbian surfers? )
No offense on LGBT people!
So did we stayed at a pretty nice hotel Globos at Sitges.
If honest, all those costal towns looks the same for me, but you may have other oppinion, so here are few pictures I did take in Sitges
Beach at Sitges
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Blog Traffic Report - October 2014
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This is already my 13 blog traffic report. This one is special for me - this month report compares my blog traffic with first month when I started to blog one year ago.
October 10, my blog celebrated one year anniversary - in case you are interested to find out more - what is the feeling after one year of blogging every day - you might find that post interesting.
Now let's see how my blog performed on month of October:
Blog traffic October 2014 (source: Google Analytics)
- I got 4785 unique visitors, what is a 42.24% growth compared to September traffic
- I have managed to attract 1421 more unique visitors if compared to previous month
- 4,785 visitors makes 154.34 user a day, what is up by 42.22 a day (previous 112.13)
Now lets see, how my precious blog traffic compares to those one year ago:
Blog traffic comparison October 2013 vs October 2014
Well... is there anything much to add, to describe image above?
It's 12,169% growth if counted by unique visitors. Some pathetic result…