Blog Archive: March 2015
An ex-pat living in Georgia since 2011, I trade stocks, take photographs, work out at the gym, and many more. Here I write about travel, finance, and other things that might interest me.
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Hiking trails near Turtle Lake (Tbilisi) - Photos And Route Map
Welcome to another hiking / trekking post in Tbilisi. This time in a company of three we made a route from Turtle Lake - Round Garden (Eristavi street). As warm weather is more approaching, I'm more into outdoor activities. So - last week we took our bikes and headed to Lisi lake. Speaking of hiking near Turtle lake - this was already third time this year (first two were made on January) - so it actually doesn't matter what are the weather…
Spring Is In The Air - Colourful Photos From Tbilisi Dezerter Bazaar
On the lovely date of March 8 which in Georgia and many other countries is celebrated as International Women's Day I headed to Tbilisi Dezerter Bazaar to capture impressions of that day. I was hoping to capture smiling man with flowers in hand but instead I did photographed a lot of vegetables, fruits and yes flowers as well. As well I managed to capture both happy and unhappy sales persons in action. Take a look Narcissus for Sale at…
Enabled Cache For Drupal Views Gives A Better Performace
The other day talking with my dad on Facebook, he asked me, why my blog is so slow today - it's so slow that he cannot open my site at all. I straight went to my Linode VPS to investigate server logs. Nothing unusual did find there. I used http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ to test speed of my site and it actually was really slow. Since my blog is heavily based on Drupal views, and I had not before enabled cache neither for CSS or JS (I'm still not…
How To Make Fresh Egg Pasta Noodles Using Macaroni machine
Welcome to my third attempt of being a food bloger, today I will demonstrate how one (perhaps you) can make a home-made noodles by using a macaroni machine. I believe just like in my previous food blog posts I will learn some new English culinary language. Ingredients you will need: flour, eggs, salt and a macaroni machine. We bought our macaroni machine here in Georgia some years ago already, if you don't have one, take your chances and…
Cycling Near Lisi Lake In Tbilisi (Route Map + Photos)
Welcome to another cycling in Tbilisi post series. Today I will write about our latest cycling route near the Lisi lake, will provide you with a cycling map and plenty of photos I managed to capture here. During this cycling route, we discovered a few and very interesting places in Tbilisi I had previously barely heard but never had visited them before. Places like Tbilisi Hippodrome and Tbilisi Dog Shelter. It all started with a call to a…
Tbilisi Dog Shelter Near Lisi Lake
The other day during our cycling near Lisi lake in Tbilisi we discovered a few and interesting places, I have already wrapped a blog post about Tbilisi Hippodrome we discovered by accident. By accident we discovered a Tbilisi Dog Shelter as well. When cycling from Tbilisi Hippodrome back to Lisi lake, my eyes cached an interesting scene - in the middle of nowhere people were doing some exercises. So we decided to approach and the closer we…
Tbilisi Hippodrome Near Lisi Lake (Jockey Club)
After a longer break of my cycling advetures, on a lovely Saturday morning we took our bikes and headed to Lisi Lake. Turned out that just a few hundred meters away from Lisi Lake there is located a place called 'Tbilisi Hippodrom LTD' - At start I was kinda suspicious, because only one for me known Hippodrome in Tbilisi (now we should call it a former hippodrome) is located along the Vake-Saburtalo road. I'm not an expert in this field - if…
Yamato Sushi Bar in Tbilisi Review
Welcome to another post in series of Tbilisi restaurant reviews. Today I will write about a Yamato Sushi bar located on Alexander Kazbegi avenue in Tbilisi. As usual we bought a coupon on local Georgian groupon clone style site hotsale.ge. Offer was for around 20 GEL ($10.00 / EUR 9.00) or probably even cheaper and included a sushi set and a miso soup. As usual for taking photographs I'm using my Samsung phone and using Instagram (then…
15 Best Recommended Hotels in Girona, Spain on Booking.com (Close to Cathedral; Price Range EUR 50 - 100)
Last autumn I made a week long trip to Spain, region of Catalonia, after landing at Barcelona El Prat Airport, we took our car from rental company and went straight to Girona. You can read more about my first impressions of Girona, but here is a quick tip - major tourist attractions in Girona are: Girona Cathedral and Jewish Quarter. Back then we stayed at Hotel Gran Hotel, which actually is pretty good bet, but I decided to list another great…
Restaurant 'Shengen' Review in Tbilisi
Welcome to another great Tbilisi restaurant review - today I will write about restaurant Shengen located on Sioni street in the heart of Tbilisi Old Town. The reason I was intrigued to visit this place was simple - I really enjoyed their name - I mean Shengen from Schengen area - it made me smile. To get here - as usual using local Georgian groupon clone sites - vovovo.ge this time - be bought a coupon here for a steak and glass of wine. This…
Lagidze Water near Sameba
Welcome to another post in Tbilisi restaurant series. Today I will speak about cafe Lagidze Water located at Sameba Cathedral complex. I had heard previously about Lagidze Water, but I didn't know much about it, just something that it was pretty popular drink during Soviet times (and probably Tsarist Russia times as well) My knowledge was short like it's some syrup mix with water - well I'm not found of syrup waters but seems that in Georgia…