Blog Archive: June 2019

Hi! My name is Reinis Fischer (38), a proud dad and devoted husband. CEO and Founder of Terramatris crypto hedge fund, drone enthusiast, world traveler, photographer, book author and passionate lover of Georgian cuisine (vegetarian).

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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Latvian - Georgian Cafe 4You in Gori

Now besides hostel in Tbilisi, Latvians have a cafe in Gori Latvian - Georgian Cafe 4You is located on Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue 34, Gori.  Opened for the public in 2018, this place serves pastry, cakes and a huge menu of a different kind of meals (both Latvian and Georgian style), you can get here both some salty Gori style cutlets and even Kiev's cutlet, not to speak about salad olive and more.  Overall feeling  - The Soviet Obshchepit (…

Restaurant reviews |

Tbilisi - Baku by Train Ticket Information

At the end of June 2019, I finally bought train tickets Tbilisi - Baku for early August 2019. I have plans to spend my 34th birthday in Baku, Azerbaijan.  The train is departing Tbilisi daily at 20:35 and arriving in Baku at 08:50, In total it takes about 12 hours and 30 minutes to get from Tbilisi to Baku by train It seems there is no option buying tickets online yet for Tbilisi - Baku line (although I found there are some tour agencies …

Travel guides |

Gori Fortress & Memorial of Georgian Warrior Heroes

Gori Fortress is a medieval citadel in Georgia, standing above the city of Gori on a rocky hill. The fortress is very well visible from the city, unfortunately, I have never climbed up to the fortress, but I believe very cool aerial photos might be taken from here. At the bottom of the fortress, there is located the Memorial of Georgian Warrior Heroes consisting of 8 (?) sculptures of Georgian Warriors.  The fortress first appears in the 13th-…

Military Heritage |

Georgia Palace Hotel & SPA Kobuleti

Georgia Palace Hotel & SPA is the first Georgian Brand five-star Resort hotel located on the Black Sea shore of Georgia's famed summer resort in Kobuleti, Georgia. We booked this 5-star hotel for a one night at the end of April 2019, during a short weekend trip to Batumi and the nearby vicinity. We paid just USD 80 for our stay here, which I believe is a discount price and available just in the low-season. Situated in the resort of…

Hotel reviews |

Net Worth $25,000 Reached

On April 2nd, 2019, my net worth for the first time reached $25,000 Milestone.It took me 2 years and 3 months since I originally started my million dollar journey, and I was 33 years old.Here is what I told/forecasted back when first reached $10,000 net worth:If things will continue to be so bright in the future, I could reach a total net worth of $25,000 by the end of 2018, being 33 years old.Despite it was planned to get here some 3 months…

Investments |

Top 10 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming Laptops

The GeForce® GTX 1650 is built with the breakthrough graphics performance of the award-winning NVIDIA Turing™ architecture. It’s a supercharger for today’s most popular games, and even faster with modern titles. Step up to better gaming with GeForce GTX. In this article, I've listed top 10 laptops with Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics card available for sale on Amazon.com A quick note: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking…

Online Shopping |

Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin

The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin is located in Gori on Lomouri street 7, just opposite to the Gori Fortress.  Some might be surprised noticing that this church looks like a typical Catholic church rather than a typical Georgian Orthodox church. According to Georgia.Travel the temple was built as a Catholic church between 1806 and 1810. In 1920, it was heavily damaged by an earthquake. View towards cathedral from Gori…

Churches and Monasteries |

Top 20 9th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor (Gaming) Laptops

Latest Intel Core I7 9th generation processors have been around since early 2019. Intel Core i7 laptops are gaining momentum among gamers and business users. Creative graphic designers, video animators, and photographers will enjoy these powerful laptops as well. Most of the laptops listed below is both gaming laptops and on-the-go workstations. You should be ready to spend at least ~ $1,000 to get the latest Intel Core i7 - 9750H processor…

Online Shopping |

Black Sea Arena Georgia

Black Sea Arena is an indoor arena located on the coast of the Black Sea in Shekvetili, Guria, Georgia, some 45 km north of Batumi, the country's second largest city. The venue, designed by the architects from the German company Drei Architekten, is the largest open concert hall in the Caucasus. The auditorium has a capacity of 10,000 seats in circular grandstands. The American singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera performed at the official…

Tourism objects |

Batumi McDonald's

The coolest McDonald's building probably is located in Georgian seaside town Batumi. Officially opened for public already back in 2013, this place has been featured in countless architecture award magazines across the World. Named as the World’s Best Commercial Building 2014 (source: Batumi McDonald’s: World’s Best Commercial Building 2014) The restaurant, designed by Harvard-graduate and Georgian architect Giorgi Khmaladze, was named…

Restaurant reviews |

Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori

The Joseph Stalin Museum is a museum in Gori, Georgia dedicated to the life of Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, who was born in Gori. The Museum retains its Soviet-era characteristics. The museum has three sections, all located in the town's central square. It was officially dedicated to Stalin in 1957. With the downfall of the Soviet Union and independence movement of Georgia, the museum was closed in 1989, but has since been…

Museums |

Villa St Maria Boutique hotel Jūrmala

Offering a sauna, boutique hotel Villa St Maria is set in the heart of Jurmala on the main pedestrian promenade Jomas street, some 400 m from Dzintari Concert Hall. In summers guests can enjoy a lounge terrace on the rooftop of the hotel and an on-site restaurant with Japanese, Korean and European cuisine and drinks. We booked this hotel for a short one night stay before departing back to Tbilisi in May 2019. We paid EUR 68 for a stay here…

Hotel reviews |

May 2019 Dividend Income Report - $216.17

Welcome to the twenty-fifth (#25) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and cryptocurrencies) in May 2019. Summer is finally here in Georgia and more time we are spending outdoors. Actually, at the start of May, we took a short 10 day trip to Latvia, trying delicious seafood at Jūrmala restaurants and more. I would love to feature some great landscape of Latvian nature…

Investments |

How To Merge Vocabularies on Drupal (Taxonomy Manager)

A couple of years ago I launched the Piece of Life project in the frames of this blog. The idea was simple - instead of building a separate website for our photo stories, incorporate it in already established blog After a quick brainstorming  - it was realized using additional content types and vocabularies I decided to run this project as a separate entity inside the frames of my blog for two reasons: Firstly, I'm an author of about 50% of…

Drupal Development |

Easy Weekend trip to Kakehti in Georgia

This is a short recap of our travels to the region of Kakheti in September 2017. I've got many times asked this question - what's the best time to visit Georgia? In short - it depends. Among the many reasons to visit Georgia, I would recommend it during the rtveli time (grape harvesting) around September, see: Grape Harvest Rtveli in Georgia (Region of Kakheti) As for this trip, we took a driver from Tbilisi (Book your driver here), headed to…

Tours in Georgia |