Blog Archive: September 2017
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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Home Remodeling - Season 3 (2017)
We had some great plans for this Summer's home remodeling works, unfortunately, we faced some obstacles, and decided to stop any further home remodeling works for this year. Despite being pretty upset about our situation, we still enjoyed a great Summer at our rural country property. Here I'm adding pictures, how it all looked in April 2017, make sure to check out how it all started, and see previous years start of the season. Let's start…
Rose Garden 'Dailas Rozes' near Tukums in Latvia
We received a special request, from a special person, to deliver park rose Rītausma, which could translate as Dawn in English. Rītausma is a local, Latvia selected park rose breed. To get one (seedling price was about EUR 5), we had to cross half of the country, to find this special, precious rose at Dailas Rozes, located in Sēme parish, some 5km from Tukums. After spending an hour at Dailas Rozes park, I felt impressed, made a few photos here…
Autumn Harvest in The Garden
Back at our rural country house in Latvia, we have a pretty international garden, plants, and flowers from different countries across the world, so, for example, we have a tulip bulbs from the Netherlands, cabbage seeds from the United States of America, some lichens from Georgia, and of course traditional Latvian plants. It was at the end of August 2017, we decided it's the right time to harvest the crop, we planted back in Spring. In today'…
How I Made $2,135.03 with Google AdSense in 8 years
Wow, it has been already 8 years, since I've been using Google AdSense to monetize online content. Amazing how fast time flies - It was at late night of September 4th, 2009, when I finally decided to give it a try for Google AdSense. You know what's more amazing? Half of that amount I made in the last year alone. See: How I Made $1,000 with Google AdSense in 7 years Back then, 8 years ago, I had a dozen of "web-projects", mostly powered by …
Top 12 Luxury & Boutique Hotels in Chania Town
For a luxury stay in Chania town, you will find plenty of 4-star and 5-star hotels. The best - luxury and boutique hotels are pretty affordable in Chania, you should be ready to pay about EUR 75 to EUR 260 per night. From my personal experience, thus I've not stayed at any of listed below hotels, I've stayed just for one night at Lithinon Studio apartments, close to the harbor bay for about EUR 50, spending rest of my time at other boutique…
One of The Best Traditional Cretan Restaurants - Gramvousa in Kaliviani
There is another clear winner in my top restaurant list - Gramvousa Restaurant in the small Cretan village Kaliviani. Discovered by the accident, during our travels in Crete at the start of June 2017. We headed here after failed attempt to reach Balos beach in the nearby vicinity, see: Discoveries in Crete - Rough Road To Balos Beach Right now it's hard to remember where did we actually headed, but we were driving through this small village,…
Adding Synereo AMP tokens as Long Term Hold to Alternative Crypto Currency Portfolio ($0.19)
Starting July 2017, I've been a buy & hold investor for some of the largest crypto currency tokens as of 2017 - BTH, ETH, LTC and XRP. In fact, XRP (Ripple) was added because of FOMO already, see: Why I Rushed to Buy Ripple (XRP) Cryptocurrency at $0.19 Last few months have taught me a lot in the crypto currency investing, and I'm still learning new things every day. A few weeks ago I decided it would be cool, to learn how to short, and…
Discoveries in Crete - Rough Road To Balos Beach
Balos Beach & Lagoon have been listed as one of the TOP 10 Best Europe's Beaches in 2017 according to Trip Advisor. We didn't know that yet when planned our trip here with a rental car we took earlier this morning at Agia Marina beach. This was indeed a beautiful trip, kind of reminded me the one we did about a year ago in Spain's region of Andalusia, see: In The Searches For El Torcal - Wilderness in SpainTorcal - Wilderness in Spain Also…
August 2017 Dividend Income Report - $40.43
Welcome to the fourth (#4) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and crypto currencies) in August 2017. If you are new to these dividend income reports, where I'm sharing my progress towards financial freedom, here is a backstory in short - I started my wealth building adventure (portfolio) in January 2017 with a simple goal to invest $8,561 this year in several batches…
Mavros Molos Beach near Kissamos, Crete
Mavros Molos beach is a quiet and kind of remote, tourist unspoiled beach located near Kissamos, some 40km from Chania. We made here a short stop during our Crete exploring trip back in June 2017 Mavros Molos Beach is the largest beach in Kissamos (Kastelli) itself, with fine sand and relatively shallow water. Mavros Molos beach near Kissamos, Crete Mavros Molos beach is at the west end of town, right in front of the restaurants and…
Top 20 5-star hotels in Istanbul, Turkey
For a luxury stay in Istanbul, you will find a wide selection of top World brand hotels, Sheraton, Hilton, Kempinski, Four Seasons, Hyatt you name it. a From my personal experience, I've stayed at a dozen of Istanbul's boutique hotels in a price range USD 60-100, with Dosso Dossi Istanbul Old City Hotel located in Sultanahmet, being the latest. Make sure you check out article What to do and see in Istanbul in less than 24 hours if you are…