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Walking Street in Palanga
Palanga is a nice little beach resort town in Lithuania. The city features a walking street, with many cafes and restaurants, local art and craft and so on.Unfortunately I didn't figure out what name does this street wears, so lets call it just Walking street in Palanga. Turns out, this is the first geo - tagged post from Lithuania at this blog, thus I have visited Lithuania countless time prior, including Palanga. We arrived to Palanga…
Hotel Fontaine Royal Review In Liepāja
Set in a converted factory building along the Tirdzniecības kanāls, this laid-back hotel with quirky, royal-inspired interiors is 8 minutes' walk from the Liepajas theater and 6 km from tours of the Karostas Cietums prison.The eclectic, colorful rooms come with TVs and Internet access. Budget rooms share bathrooms, while upgrades have en suite facilities. Family rooms sleep up to 6 people, and suites feature gilt furniture, seating areas…
DIY - Bed Frame King Size Rural Style
One of the most important furniture elements in your master bedroom definitely is a bed. This time I decided to build a bed frame by my own.Last year we bought four mattress and used them in old single beds. I decided to combine them and build a King or at least a Queen Size bed. To accomplish this task I studied a few tutorials, see 21 DIY Bed Frame Projects – Sleep in Style and Comfort.I ordered planks from local carpentry, the total cost…
Burning Branches
Few days ago we did the Big Spring tree and branches trimming, we were left with many piles of branches, the only reasonable solution to get rid of them - burn them.We waited for overcast day and made three fire places today. Thus we didn't burned all of the branches today, we did a pretty good work today.Making a fire place near fish pondIn contrary to the weather forecast, instead overcast day we got crystal clear sky and…
DIY - Kitchen Cabinets With a Sink
I have always loved to construct and develop some new things, I love to spend my free time by figuring out how to improve space around me, that's why probably for a second season I have been doing home remodeling works by my own. In today's article, not about my adventures from home remodeling, but a simple trick how I improved the temporary living space around me - kitchen cabinets with a sink.Lets start with what we got here:Old Kitchen…
Kuldīga Food Market
Kuldīga Food Market (Kuldīgas pārtikas tirgus, in Latvian) is located on Aizputes street 2a in Kuldīga, Latvia.Frankly speaking I have no idea why they call it a food market, as from food there are little to nothing to choose. Instead this is a great place to buy plants, seeds, wood products (spoons, decorative wood figures), honey and yes, they have a small stand selling smoked fish. Does it sounds like a food market? Kuldīga marketFlower…
Edward The Brushcutter AW-BC620TH Trimmer
Meet Edward, our newest team member to help us out in our home remodeling works. I first met Edward at local DEPO DIY store in Liepāja, Latvia. The sales person wanted me to buy a Jasper, as Jasper was listed just under EUR 100. In my mind I had already allocated about EUR 400 for a new brush cutter / trimmer purchase and I asked to the salesperson can he show me something more powerful than Jasper?I was introduced with…
The Big Spring Cleanup Part 2 - Trimming Trees and Branches
After the successful Big Spring cleanup of territory surrounding our rural house, and after masonry works with chimney it was time to get rid of old and broken branches.Frankly speaking I thought it will be enough just to cut one broken branch from our apple orchard and trimming some smaller bushes in garden. Turned out I was wrong. After all we trimmed many trees and way more branches. For this task I hired a professional saw guy,…
Repairing Old Brick Chimney
On April 20, 2016 we completely changed a top of our brick chimney at our rural country house. It was not planned actually to change all top of chimney, just to add two rows of bricks. Thus after a quick inspection it was clear - it's time to replace it all.Read how we lost a chimney in past: Replacing Roof - Part 3: Removing the old roofing (Losing Chimney)Workers inspecting chimneyIt was clear - there are no other option, but to…
Batumi Railway Station
Batumi railway station has been recently constructed and opened for public, making travels by train from Tbilisi to Batumi a little bit easier.Prior that, train stopped at Makjinjauri station (some 7 km from Batumi city center)I took a train ride from Tbilisi to Batumi at start of March 2016, and was 100% sure that new station will be located somewhere in Batumi city - I was wrong. The new station is still located some 3 km from city,…
How To Make Burger Buns at Home
If you asked me how to make hamburger buns at home question some eight years ago - I would say - it's complicated and most probably impossible. Ask me today - and I will not only exactly tell - but I will show some cool pictures of both how to make burger buns at home and some really delicious home made burgers and variation of hotdogs. Allow me to inform you - I'm not the original creator of what you will see next (I was allowed just to…
The Big Spring Territory Cleanup
Few days ago I announced start for Season 2 of our home remodeling adventures. We have some really big plans to achieve this year - like getting a water supply and constructing from scratch few walls. Also a bathroom is planned to be finished until end of this Summer.But our home renovation tasks starts with outdoor territory. More precise with the big Spring cleanup. We had to clean area not only from old leaves and branches, but also from…
Batumi Botanical Garden
Batumi Botanical Garden is a must have to visit tourism attraction site when in Batumi.Botanical Garden is actually located at the place called Mtsvane Kontskhi ("The Green Cape") in distance of some 10 km from Batumi city on the Black Sea shore, it is one of the largest botanical gardens in the former Soviet Union. You can get here either by hiring a taxi from Batumi (I negotiated price for about 10…
I Will Miss This Tbilisi Wall
I have observed this wall for the last three years (with short interruptions, when on longer travels) from our Tbilisi balcony. Probably, right at this wallI started to improve my photographer skills when about two years ago I reported first time lapse - Brick Wall turning green. Looking on this wall I have spent countless hours by zooming, experimenting with f stops, changing lenses and so on, making many photographs for my 365 days…
Home Remodeling - Season 2 starts now
Loyal readers of this blog are already familiar with the home renovation and remodeling process which we started a year ago, if not, make sure you check out article - How it all starts.On April 14, 2016 we made a long and tired journey with our cats to get where we left this process at the end of Summer 2015. I was really glad that I had spent whole winter improving my photographer skills (see digital photography school), so it was just a matter…
Piazza Square in Batumi
Piazza square in Batumi is one of the landmarks of city - square features luxury and boutique hotels, cafeterias and interesting architectural elements. A small Italian renaissance in Georgian sauce. The visiting - card of Batumi, local peoples and tourists favorite place of meeting. Batumi Piazza was built in 2009 in Old Batumi. Square was designed by famous Georgian architect Vazha Orbeladze and it is a mixture and an unique ensemble…
Argo Entertainment Center and Cable Car (Viewing Platform in Batumi)
By saying Argo Entertainment Center and Cable car I wanted actually to say - Batumi viewing platform. As this place is located at the other end of Batumi Aerial tram ropeway, and from here a spectacular view towards Batumi bay can be seen. Cable car station at Anuria mountain in BatumiThere is a small lovely church located next to the station building.Inside the building there are small cafeteria.I have headed here especially…
Ali and Nino- The Statue of Love in Batumi
Batumi will never end to surprise you, and so does the Miracle park close to Batumi Bay. Exactly here is located a really cool statue of Love, meet Ali and Nino.I spent a lovely morning at Batumi Miracle park and photographed here a lot, when was turn to photograph Ali and Nino, I had already switched my kit lens to more powerful telephoto lens - got a really cool close ups at the end.Ali and Nino Statue of LoveCreated by …
Chacha Tower in Batumi
Chacha tower is really interesting tourist attraction site in Georgia's Black Sea resort town of Batumi. Originally built in 2012, it was meant to feature Georgian national spirit chacha fountain instead of water. It has been noted that noted that chacha will flow once a week for 15 minutes. Frankly speaking I have never seen chacha flowing here yet.Chacha Tower in BatumiThe tower is surrounded by 4…
Alphabetic tower in Batumi
Alphabetic tower is one of the many skyscrapers of Batumi. The tower symbolizes the uniqueness of Georgian alphabet and people.Located in the Miracle park, Alphabetic tower of Batumi can be considered as one of the main tourist attraction sites in the city. Alphabetic Tower is a total of 130 meter tall. The structure combines the design of DNA, in its familiar double helix pattern. Two helix bands rise up…
Batumi Miracle Park
Miracle park located on the shores of Georgian Black sea resort town Batumi, features Alphabet tower, Statue of Lowers, Lighthouse, Ferris wheel and Chacha tower. It is directly connected to Batumi boulevard and Batumi city bay. Visitors of Batumi city will enjoy unique and really interesting architecture, featuring some of the tallest buildings in country.View towards Batumi skyscrapersWhen I first visited Batumi back in 2011, there was…
Batumi Bay and Port
Once in Batumi, take a lazy walk at Batumi bay area, watch ships on anchor and enjoy a cup of tasty Turkish coffee at some of the bay cafeterias. From Batumi bay you could take an aerial tram and get some really spectacular views towards Batumi.Boulevard at Batumi bayShip on anchor at BatumiYou can climb down from the boulevard and enjoy pebbled shore. Cargo ships at Batumi portAnd really spectacular views towards Adjarian mountains,
Georgia / Armenia Border Crossing at Sadakhlo / Bagratashen
One of the shortest routes for crossing Georgian / Armenian border, if traveling from Tbilisi to Yerevan, is Sadakhlo / Bagratashen border point. I have traveled this route several times, mostly for my travels to Yerevan I have used private taxi cars or minivans leaving from Avlabari or Ortachala (in Tbilisi) and back from Kilikia bus station in Yerevan. Learn more about cheap travel between Georgia and Armenia by mini vans…
Kilikia Bus Station in Yerevan, Armenia
I have used Kilikia bus station to travel from Yerevan to Tbilisi using minivan (marshrutka), but seems you can get from Kilikia to Istanbul (Turkey), Tehran (Iran) or Moscow (Russia), take in note those will be very long trips (starting 40 hours) and I would rather prefer to fly instead of traveling such long distances by bus.I reserved a seat a day before by calling to firm in Yerevan - Tbilisi minivan (Read more:Tbilisi -…
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