Travel

The Travel section is a collection of notes and observations from frequent trips across different countries and regions.

I travel regularly and document what I see along the way — from infrastructure and logistics to places of cultural, historical, and practical interest.

Topics covered include:

  • Airports
  • Railway, bus, and ferry transport
  • Museums and military heritage sites
  • Tourism objects and landmarks
  • Shopping venues
  • Health and wellness facilities

This section focuses on practical details, useful insights, and real experiences rather than curated travel guides.

Chili Pizza in Palanga

Chili Pizza is a popular Lithuanian pizzeria chain. Today we paid a visit to one located in Lithuanian beach town of Palanga. Chili Pizza in Palanga, LithuaniaLocated in multi storey …

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Sea Bridge in Palanga

Sea bridge in Palanga is probably the most popular tourist attraction in Lithuanian beach resort town of Palanga.It reaches into the sea for 407 metres and is shaped in the form of letter L. The pier…

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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…

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Rally Kurzeme 2016

Sport photography has always been interesting for me. I don't feel pro enough to call myself a sport photography guru, as I understand it involves fast zoom lens as well. Today I was…

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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…

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Flying Fish over Venta Rapid in Kuldīga

This was my second attempt to photograph flying fish over Venta rapid this year, first I did it around April 20, but didn't choose the right position and the weather was damn cold…

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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…

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Former Kolkhoz Spartak

It was on a still and tranquil Friday evening when we took our cat Tiger on a walk. I took a tripod and camera and just documented were we went. Turned out we were walking with our cat at former…

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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 …

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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Narikala Fortress

Ask anybody in Georgia - what are the must have tourist sites to visit while in Tbilisi. Narikala fortress will be a top of the list.And there is a good reason -  an ancient fortress,…

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