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Hotel Ultonia Review in Girona
During our first day on our Catalonia trip for a first night, we stayed at Girona - Hotel Ultonia. For a start I must admit - I wanted to book another less expensive hotel, but that was out of city center - so hell, for a sake of a couple of bucks we decided to book something valuable in the city center. But to keep up with the costs - I found it's more affordable if you are using hotelclub.com rather booking.com. Basically, it works like…
Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport
Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport is located some 32 km southeast of the city center, airport serves as the hub for AnadoluJet and Pegasus Airlines. The facility is named after Sabiha Gökçen, the adoptive daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the first female fighter pilot in the world. Although Istanbul Airport, located 63 km (39 mi) west of the European side of Istanbul, is larger, Sabiha Gökçen is still one of the largest…
Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport
Shota Rustaveli Tbilisi International Airport is the busiest international airport in Georgia, located 17 km (11 mi) southeast of capital Tbilisi. The airport handled 3.7 million passengers in 2019. Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, the airspace of Georgia was closed for most of 2020 causing the number of travelers through Tbilisi airport to drop by 84% to less than 600,000.Tbilisi Airport is home to Georgian flag carrier Georgian Airways…
The University of Georgia (Tbilisi)
The other day I accompanied a person visiting The University of Georgia. And for a surprise for me - I found this educational institution as pretty good. No I have no thoughts of studying in Georgia, but you never say never. The University of Georgia Students have free Internet access The University of Georgia offers studies for international students Coffee machine for students After lectures students can rest on cozy…
New Asia - Tbilisi Restaurant Review
New Asia is a Chinese restaurant located in Tbilisi on Griboedov street (just next to Rustaveli Avenue). The idea to visit this Chinese restaurant came spontaneous... you see - khinkali, khachapuri or barbecue... there are times you get sick and tired of them in Georgia. So one of the alternatives is to visit some other type cuisine - and this time our choice was Chinese cuisine. New Asia Restaurant in Tbilisi Entrance at New Asia…
Dzveli Kalaki Tbilisi Restaurant Review
This is already third post in my Tbilisi restaurant series. Today I got a chance to visit Dzveli Kalaki restaurant (near Didube bridge) For a prelude - we found and interesting offer on Georgian Groupon clone site www.hotsale.com - Entricote with 30% Off. This hotsale systems works like this - you pay some small fee for coupon/voucher and then you get your discount. So we bought a coupon for Dzveli Kalaki - it was for about 2 GEL. Since we…
The Bears Restaurant/Pub in Tbilisi Review
This is my second post on series covering Tbilisi restaurants. A while ago I decided to start a new topic series, with aim for locals and foreigners find great dinner places in Tbilisi. I'm reviewing only places I have tried by myself. Update, this restaurant seems is out of the business, but on its location is some other restaurant (2021) I'm an expat living in Georgia (Tbilisi). You can find some articles covering topic Living in…
Villa Likani Review
The other day was damned hot in Tbilisi, and we decided to take a minibus to head to Borjomi (temperature there is significantly cooler than in Tbilisi). Said - done. In matter of few hours we were at Borjomi National Park eating barbecue and figuring out - should we stay or should we leave (As the song of The Clash - Should I stay or should I go). Since this was not the first time visiting Borjomi and staying overnight here, we already knew -…
Luca Polare - One Of The Best Ice Creams In Tbilisi
I have decided to start a new post series - Tbilisi restaurants. As you might already know I'm an expat living in Georgia (Tbilisi). I'm a huge lover of restaurants and coffee shops, and since living in Georgia I have came even a bigger fan of eating outside the home. Since I'm eating out pretty regular - there are my favourite places, then there are places, that once was my favourite places, and then there are places better to…
Republica Hotel Yerevan Review
We made a reservation for Republica Hotel Yerevan during our trip to Armenia, to celebrate my birthday on August 6th to August 8th. We chose this hotel - mainly because of it's location (it's located on lively street Amiryan in centre of Yerevan) and it's price (for 2 nights it was 92 000 Armenian Drams, what equals to about EUR 166 or USD 220) Deluxe room with King sized bed at Republica Hotel Yerevan Flat Screen TV opposite to bed…