Blog Archive: December 2016

Average Salary in Georgia 2016 - $ 389

Living in Georgia 31 December, 2016 seen 4,108
Average salary in the Republic of Georgia at the end of the second quarter (Q2) of 2016 was GEL 1035.98 equaling about USD 389. For the simplicity of further written and calculated, here is the exchange rates I used from Bank of Georgia…

Moss Airport, Rygge, Norway

Airports 30 December, 2016 seen 323
Moss airport Rygge officially marks my first entry point to Norway in Summer 2016. Unfortunately, or for good,  Rygge airport has been shut down to all civilian traffic on November 1, 2016. We arrived here from Malaga by Ryanair cheap…

Construction Materials Arrives (aerated concrete blocks and other goodies)

Home Remodeling 29 December, 2016 seen 52
That day finally came - construction materials arrived.  We paused our construction works for about a month, because of a simple reason - lack of funds, or more precisely slow bank transfers, we did spent a lovely July harvesting mushrooms…

Katskhi Monastery of Nativity of the Savior

Churches and Monasteries 28 December, 2016 seen 175
Don't be surprised of the name Katskhi, this is a church located some 2km from the famous Katskhi pillar in Georgia. The Katskhi Monastery of Nativity of the Savior, more commonly known as the Katskhi Monastery is a medieval monastery in …

Málaga–Costa del Sol Airport

Airports 27 December, 2016 seen 101
Málaga Airport, officially Málaga–Costa del Sol Airport is the fourth busiest airport in Spain after Madrid–Barajas, Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca. It is an important airport for Spanish tourism as it is the main international airport …

Pouring Concrete Footing

Home Remodeling 26 December, 2016 seen 69
Right, today I found a fix to the issue we discovered earlier this summer - missing foundation for the some parts of our rural house. Some few days ago I bough a concrete mixer, gravel was already waiting to be mixed with concrete, now it…

Christmas Cooking Photo Session in The Kitchen - Olivie salads, Pirozhki and of course Pizza

Food blogger 25 December, 2016 seen 130
That time of the year have come and for the rare time this year I was actually operating with camera in our kitchen - in today's special Christmas menu - our "traditional Georgian Christmas" table - salad Olivie, pirozhki and of course…

Katskhi Pillar

Tourism objects 25 December, 2016 seen 573
The Katskhi pillar is a natural limestone monolith located at the village of Katskhi in western Georgian region of Imereti, near the town of Chiatura. It is approximately 40 metres (130 ft) high, and overlooks the small river valley of…

Hotel Zen Airport Torremolinos, Spain

Hotel reviews 24 December, 2016 seen 103
Hotel Zen is a 3-star hotel located in Torremolinos, Spain - a good location, pretty close to the Malaga airport. We booked Hotel Zen as our last hotel during our week long travels in Spain before departing to Oslo, Norway. This property…

Bad Discovery - Missing foundation for house

Home Remodeling 23 December, 2016 seen 150
Today I decided to keep digging trench around existing house fundament to prepare works for upcoming concreting works. Yesterday I bough a concrete mixer and mixed first test of concrete, load of gravel were already waiting and of course a…