Indie Travel Guides

Weekend trip to Telavi (Georgia) and Vicinty This is a short recap article about our latest trip to the region of Kakheti in Western Georgia, during a weekend trip we stayed in a lovely Chataeu Mere hotel near Telavi and explored nearby vicinity. We did this trip as indie travelers, first booked hotel room, then contacted hotel and asked transfer service from our Tbilisi apartment to hotel (and back...

10 Day Business / Leisure Trip to the United States (New York & Philadelphia) A short 10 day trip to the United States, visiting 3 states (New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania)  Long story short - I had to fly to the United States for one reason - opening a bank account (see: How To Open A Bank Account in U.S., As A Non-resident Non - citizen, Wells Fargo Bank), for the flight we decided to go with Ukrainian airlines from...

Short Day Trip To Kiev, Ukraine Long story short - we had a chance to spend in Kiev couple of hours, during our latest flight Tbilisi - Kiev - New York city, after our flight was delayed for about 10 hours at Kiev's Borispol airport we decided to use these hours by exploring Kiev, instead of waiting at airport's transit area. Out of the airport terminal at...

Top 10 Plovdiv Hotels in Bulgaria For today's article I've decided to take a look on average hotel price in Bulgaria's Plovdiv and also list TOP 10 hotels there based on Booking.com recommendations. Now, just recently I booked my first flight to Sofia (capital of Bulgaria), after that I made some "investigation" what to expect in Bulgaria and crafted an article: Planing a Trip to...

7 days in Spain (Region of Andalusia) This post is a round up post from our latest travels to Andalusia, region in Spain in June 2016.  It also has been our second visit to Spain, at the end of 2014 we explored another region here - Catalonia, see My Spain + Andorra Travel Guide Spain definitely is a country worth to visit and explore slowly (region after region). Now, looking back...

Day Trip to Tianeti in Georgia Tianeti seems is not among the most popular tourism routes in Georgia, I wonder why. Day trips to Tianeti (region of Mtsketa-Mtianeti) are quite possible and really easy doable.  We agreed not to spend Saturday mornings in the search for the best breakfast menu offers among Tbilisi restaurants, but rather spend our free time much valuable...

5 Days In Georgia Itinerary List - Make Most Of Your Trip For the second time I felt as a real tourist in Georgia, let me explain - I have been living in Georgia for more than 5 years, thus for the past two years I'm spending Summer months in Latvia. This year we were absent from Georgia for about 6 months, and when returned - we had no choice but to travel a lot across the country, as the friends of my partner...

Georgia - The Most Beautiful Country In The World The other day I was reading an article in which the head of the World Tourism Organization Claimed - Georgia is the most beautiful country in the world. Well, I can ONLY agree with the words from the head of WTO, Mr. Taleb Rifai, and to ad my 50 cents  I have listed 32 places you should visit to make...

36 Popular and Unusual Places to Visit in Tbilisi In this article you will find 36 popular and not very well known tourism objects in Tbilisi, Georgia. Those are places I have visited and documented during for the past 5 years, by living as an expatriate in Georgia (mostly in Tbilisi).  Some of the objects are from the Tbilisi TOP 10 list, while others are not very well known and documented in...

Short Day Trip to Lithuania (Curonian Spit) At start of May 2016, we went on a short two day trip to Lithuania, we had no goal or destination planned. Just a spontaneous trip idea. Unfortunetly our car broke somewhere in middle of nowhere (Barta- Rucava road) and we had to stay overnight in Liepaja.  Next morning we booked a rental car and our spontaneous trip started. We visited Palanga,...

Independent Travel Guide to Mtskheta Prefer exploring Georgia on your own, you call yourself and indie, even a rough traveler? Then this guide is for you - explore Mtskheta by your own - no tourist groups, just you and your free sprit in one of the most beautiful Georgian towns - Independent Mtskheta Travel guide. The best way to getting to Mtskheta is either by a taxi or marshrutka...

My Italy Travel Guide This is a round up post listing places from our latest trip to Italy at the end of 2015 / start 2016. The idea to visit Italy born in our Tbilisi apartment's kitchen, when I was preparing another home made pizza, I was flattening pizza dough with rolling pin, when my beloved told me - hey, let's go to Italy. And so we did. After about a month we were...

Planning a trip to Georgia? Here are ideas for a week long travels! Are you planning your visit to Republic of Georgia? Traveling via Kutaisi international airport? Wondering how to make your trip unforgettable? Here are some ideas which might help, if you are planning your trip here for seven days. Actually most of the listed bellow comes from my own travels around Georgia in one week, so it's definitely possible! Make a...

Best 50 Batumi Hotels in Georgia 2015 ​Batumi is a vibrant destination in Georgia offering a lot, some heads here to enjoy rocky coastline of Black sea, while others head here to ...play casino's. I haven't tried out (yet) any of Batumi casino's, but I believe much of the city's infrastructure is built to attract gamblers. I might be wrong, but Batumi definitely has many casino's. Either...