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zaterdag 21 januari 2012

Card from Italy

Hi!
Yesterday another card arrived. This time it came from Italy. From a girl called Ermione.
The card shows the town she lives. The name of the town is: Saluzzo.
Some info about Saluzzo:
Saluzzo (Italian pronunciation: [saˈluttso]) is a town and former principality in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont region, Italy. The city of Saluzzo is built on a hill overlooking a vast, well-cultivated plain. Iron, lead, silver, marble, slate etc. are found in the surrounding mountains. It has a population of approximately 16,000.

IT-161442 Ermione

Card from Ukraine

Hi you all!
A while back I got an amazing card from Ukraine.
It is from Helen. The card shows the cape of Plaka, Crimea. The building is a sanatorium called "Utyos".


UA-191705 fan

woensdag 11 januari 2012

Card from Portugal!

Hi you all!

Yesterday I received a card from Portugal. The card came from the Berlenga Islands.

Some info about these Islands:
Berlenga Grande is the largest of the islands of the Berlengas Archipelago. The archipelago includes Berlenga Grande, Estela and Farinhoes islands. The Berlengas are located off cape of Peniche, to the west of the city of Peniche (parish of Sao Pedro), in western Portugal, Leiria district. The main isle of Berlenga has a small harbour (connecting it to Peniche harbour). The island has a beach and the Fort of St. John the Baptiste. The most common birds are seagulls.

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dinsdag 10 januari 2012

Card from USA

Hi everyone
Yesterday I received a card from the USA.
The card shows Mount Vernon. It was the home of George Washington for over 45 years. The house was built in 1735 by George Washingtons father, Augustine Washington, in 1753. George Washingtons half brother, Lawrence, inherited the property after it's commander in the British Navy, admiral Edward Vernon.

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Card from Germany

Hi again!
Yesterday I also received a card from Germany! DE-1189579 Kroete.

This B&W card came from Köln.

donderdag 5 januari 2012

Card from Berlin

Hi everyone!

Today I received a card from Berlin - Germany.
Below is a pic :)

DE-1176794 Sportfreund


Some info about the TV tower in Berlin:
The Fernsehturm (English: television tower) is a television tower in the city centre of Berlin, Germany. Close to Alexanderplatz and part of the World Federation of Great Towers (WFGT), the tower was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the former German Democratic Republic administration who intended it as a symbol of Berlin, which it remains today as it is easily visible throughout the central and some suburban districts of Berlin. With its height of 368 meters, it is the tallest structure in Germany.


The original total height of the tower was 365 metres (1,198 ft), but it rose to 368 metres (1,207 ft) after the installation of a new antenna in the 1990s. The Fernsehturm is the fourth tallest freestanding structure in Europe, after Moscow's Ostankino Tower, the Kiev TV Tower and the Riga Radio and TV Tower. There is a visitor platform and a revolving restaurant in the middle of the sphere. The visitor platform is at a height of about 204 metres (669 ft) above the ground and visibility can reach 42 kilometres (26 mi) on a clear day. The restaurant, which rotates once every 30 minutes is a few metres above the visitors platform (originally it turned once per hour; the speed was later doubled following the tower's late 1990s renovation). Inside the shaft are two lifts that shuttle visitors up to the sphere of the tower within 40 seconds. To mark the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, for which the final match was played in the Berlin Olympic Stadium, the sphere was decorated as a football with magenta-coloured pentagons, reflecting the corporate colour of World Cup sponsor and owner of the Fernsehturm, Deutsche Telekom.

Card from Brazil

Hi everyone :)
Yesterday I received this card from Brazil. The card is from a town called Belo Horizonte. BR-184512 stevaoliveira

A pic of the card

Some info about Belo Horizonte:
Belo Horizonte literally Beautiful Horizon) is the capital and largest city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of the country. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country. Belo Horizonte (also known as "Belô", "Beagá", or "BH") has a population of 2,475,440 inhabitants (2010), or 5,497,922 people in the official Metropolitan Area (2010), while your expanded metropolitan area home to about 9,010,376 inhabitants (2011).

vrijdag 30 december 2011

Card from China

Hi again!

Yesterday I also received this card from China a girl called June send it to me. She lives in Chengdu a great and beautiful city she writes. It's also Panda's hometown. On the card you see a part of famous Chinese painting.

See a pic below :)


Card from Russia

Hi again!
A while back this card also came in the mail! I forgot to post & register it online :S Shame on me :S !!!

Well see the pic below:


Info about the card:
On the card is Kizhi Pogost info about below :)

The pogost of Kizhi (i.e. the Kizhi enclosure) is located on one of the many islands in Lake Onega, in Karelia. Two 18th-century wooden churches, and an octagonal clock tower, also in wood and built in 1862, can be seen there. These unusual constructions, in which carpenters created a bold visionary architecture, perpetuate an ancient model of parish space and are in harmony with the surrounding landscape.

Card from France

Hi everyone!

Yesterday I got this card from France it is a picture of Paris and the Eiffel Tower.

Some info about the Tower!
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest building in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair.
The tower stands 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to assume the title of the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years, until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930. However, due to the addition, in 1957, of the antenna atop the Eiffel Tower, it is now taller than the Chrysler Building. Not including broadcast antennas, it is the second-tallest structure in France, after the Millau Viaduct.
The tower has three levels for visitors. Tickets can be purchased to ascend, by stairs or lift, to the first and second levels. The walk from ground level to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. The third and highest level is accessible only by elevator. Both the first and second levels feature restaurants.
The tower has become the most prominent symbol of both Paris and France, often in the establishing shot of films set in the city.

See the pic below
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zondag 25 december 2011

Poland

Hi everyone!
Yesterdag I also got 2 cards from Poland! The cards came from a town called Bielsko Biala! This is where I spend a summer with my friends in 2006 (I think)! Such a coinsedence :)

You can see a pic of the cards below!


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Info about the city:
Bielsko-Biała is a city in southern Poland with 175,513 inhabitants (June 2009). Bielsko-Biała is composed of two former cities on opposite banks of the Biała River, Silesian Bielsko and Lesser Poland's Biała, amalgamated in 1951.

The city is situated on the border of historic Upper Silesia and Lesser Poland at the eastern rim of the smaller Cieszyn Silesia region, about 60 km (37 mi) south of Katowice. Administrated within Silesian Voivodeship since 1999, the city was previously capital of Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship (1975–1998).
Bielsko-Biała is one of the most important cities of the Beskidy Euroregion and the main city of the Bielsko Industrial Region part of the Upper Silesian metropolitan area.

USA

Hi everyone!

Yesterday I received this card from David who live near Conesus Lake, which is one of the Finger Lakes in up state New York. He tels me it's a college town.

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Below you will find a pic of the card David send me!


A bit of info on Geneseo - New York
Geneseo is the name of a town and its village in Livingston County in the Finger Lakes region of New York, USA, outside of Rochester, New York. The town's population is approximately 9,600, of which about 7,600 live in the village. The English name "Geneseo" is an anglicization of the Iroquois name for the earlier Iroquois town there, Gen-nis-he-yo (which means "beautiful valley").
The village of Geneseo is the county seat of Livingston County and is entirely contained within the western part of the town at the junction of Routes 39, 63, and U.S. 20A A portion of the village — the Geneseo Historic District — was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior in 1991.

woensdag 23 november 2011

China

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Hi everyone!

Today I received a card from China!
You can see the pics below!



vrijdag 11 november 2011

From Russia with love

RU-620179

Hi Everyone!

Yesterday I received my first birthday card (for 2011) from Russia :)

Below you can find the pic

woensdag 9 november 2011

Card from the USA

US-1384800

Hi!
Also received today! A card from the USA

Pics below :)
This view of Seaside from the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks shows just how far Seaside had come since its founding in 1889. By 1920, Seaside was an example of Progressive Era suburban expansion that included transportation systems, housing and community life.




First card from Luxembourg

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Hi!
Today I also received a card from Luxembourg!
You can see a pic below :) It says in German - And he cannot make coffee either ;)



woensdag 2 november 2011

Norway

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Jeeej my first card from Norway! :)

See the pics below



And also my first stamp from Norway :)

Estonia

EE-119461 E-Martin
Today I received a card from a little boy from Estonia. His mom wrote the card for him and he signed it :) So sweet :)

See the pics below



donderdag 20 oktober 2011