Blog Archive: December 2018
Pet Food Store in Tbilisi - Zoomart on Abashidze street (near Vake park)
| Shopping Venues | 25 seen
Zoomart on Abashidze street 78 (located very conveniently close to the Vake park) has been our favorite pet food store (actually the only one) for several years already. We came here regularly to buy special cats dry food.
According to Zoomart website, there are already 11 stores across Tbilisi (2018).
At Zoomart you will find brands like Canvit, ferplast, Vitakraft, Brekkies, catzone, elmubas, Versele-Laga, Advance, Kong, Acana, Morando, Animology e.t.c
Together with Natia Beridze Veterinary, these are two of the pet-related places I'm familiar with in Tbilisi
Top 16 Best Luxury 5-star SPA hotels in Milan city center
| Hotel reviews | 44 seen
Milan is the world' s fashion capital, so there is no surprise seeing high-end hotels located in the city center.
I've been once in Milan, back then we chose to stay at a hotel close to the Milan-Malpensa airport and chose Holiday Inn Express Milan-Malpensa Airport Hotel (Case Nuove, Italy), as we traveled from Milan to Venice then Florence and back to Milan. For a complete travel route, please see My Italy Travel Guide.
For a luxury stay in the Milan city center, you should be willing to pay EUR 150 - 850 per night. Continue reading to find out the best luxury 5-star hotels in Milan
Milan is the world’s fashion capital and its stores are packed with Italian designer brands and more. T
he super stylish Milanese shop for haute couture at top prices – but also enjoy unbeatable sales! Go past the consumerism and you’ll discover a city with a modern edge and urban sophistication. Go crazy when football season kicks off at San Siro, or explore the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April – the largest furniture and design exhibition in the world.
Start your day under the towering Duomo Cathedral, take a…
IWA Christmas Charity Fair Tbilisi 2018
| Living in Georgia | 7 seen
Annual Winter Fair (Christmas charity fair) was held at Tbilisi's Radisson Blue Hotel on December 1, 2018
For many expats in Georgia, it has been already a tradition to visit this fair year. For me, this was already some sixth or seventh fair (as a visitor), maybe I should start selling hot wine in the next years (who knows)
Here are a few articles from the past: Christmas Charity Fair Tbilisi 2017, Christmas Charity Winter Fair in Tbilisi 2015, Christmas Charity Winter Fair in Tbilisi Sheraton Hotel, Christmas charity fair in Tbilisi
As usual, I took my DSLR camera, backpack and went shopping (this year was special, as it was the first fair for our little daughter).
Fair is a great place to buy great things and let's believe to help charity, as all earnings made during this fair is believed to be donated to charity. It should, after all. Winter fair was organized by International Women's Association Georgia (IWAG)
Kid books at British embassy stand
Bought a few reading books for the little fella.
Candles for sale at…
November 2018 Dividend Income Report - $111.60
| Investments | 15 seen
Welcome to the nineteenth (#19) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and cryptocurrencies) in November 2018.
In case you are wondering why I'm sharing online my earnings - the answer is pretty simple - back in January 2017, I set a goal to reach one million dollars in my bank account by the time I will turn 60 (27, 26 years still to go). I believe in transparency and sharing dividend income reports every month helps me to observe my personal progress or bounces. Hopefully, those reports can give some inspiration to you as well. (If so, please leave a short comment below).
In short, last November was neither good nor bad, I managed to crack $100/mo milestone, and I hope I will never be under $100/mo. Anyhow last month dividend income doesn't impress me at all. That's how it works I believe. Greed. Greed is good!
Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links to mintos.com peer to peer lending website, by clicking on links on this page…
Documentary "Inside Mao's China"
| Documentaries | 12 seen
A very interesting film by Martin Gronemeyer, telling a story about foreign expats in China during the cultural revolution.
The film tells a unique personal story combined with rare historical footage give a new perspective on Mao’s utopia.
At the height of Maoism, China was as closed off as present-day North Korea. Then as China eased out of its age of isolation in the early 1970's, Westerners equipped with government regulated narratives began to romanticize the new government. Only a small group of Westerners who grew up and lived inside Mao’s China witnessed first-hand the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. Until now they had preferred to remain silent but armed with a new outlook on life they are committed to sharing their experiences without fear.
When the Westerners were finally granted permission to leave, they were shocked to find their peers in Europe cheering for the very dictator they had just fled. In this time young leftist activists In Western Europe idolized Mao as a harbinger of a utopian society. However, many Western Maoists who journeyed to China to enjoy the revolutionary tours often returned disillusioned or confused.…