North Carolina, USA (02)
2008-09-22 20:42:00
And another totally unexpected, surprise card, from dear Gaby....well, that comment at the post about Vienna did reveal something, but it something i didnt expect at all....more over, its according to my tastes, coz it shows lighthouses....thank you Gaby a whole bunch! :)
You know...when i got into this postcard-exchange thing, i actually got into it with the idea to send/receive cards only....i
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Venice, Italy (06)
2008-09-22 20:38:00
Here is a card i bought during my European trip
I dont know if we got the wrong time, but i wasnt impressed much of Venice
...when we went there, the weather in general was cold and rainy and windy...so i guess i couldnt expereince Venice the right way.
Well, at least I did get tonz of cards from there, so Venice is one of those places from where i have so many cards that frankly, im not craving
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Kangding, China
2008-09-22 06:04:00
UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDAAAATEEEEE!!!!!
YAAAYYYY!!!!
Hahhaaaa...yeah, im cheering for myself and to myself....i simply CAN'T believe it that ive gone through an entire week without an update....7 days no cards....this is definitely the longest streak ive had without posting anything and to be honest i dont like it....a single bit!
But due to circumstances and all, i had some work overload...well, it
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Budapest, Hungary (15)
2008-09-22 06:01:00
Here is, again, another one of my, way too many Budapest
cards...
I dont even know anymore what to write about when it comes to Budapest :)
Oh yeah...believe it or not, I went to Budapest during the Hungaro Ring...BUT i didnt attend the race...why? I wasnt interested in it...I just went there coz thats what the travel agent's offered, and for me it was a way to see Budapest, nothing else...i wasn
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Butrinti, Albania
2008-09-22 06:00:00
And here comes my very first card from Albania...the funny thing is that im actually about to have another Albanian card...and i was informed about it, just shorty after i arranged to have this one...so the same old rule applies..first you dont have any, then you have many :)
Well....this is actually a UNESCO site...it is an ancient Greek city and an archaeological site, near the border with Gre
Massachusetts, USA
2008-09-22 05:57:00
I received this one as a total surprise....it was one of my cards in my wish list...and since there are some really kind people out there, who check that album, and saw this card, and sent it to me....a huge Thank You to the Evans Family, for thinking of me and for actually sending me this and making me smile...which is what a RAS is supposed to do :)
Hmmm, no traditional info on the back of the
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Hurghada, Egypt
2008-09-22 05:55:00
My last card for today comes from Egypt
...Hurghada....Sheraton Street in particular...
Hurghada is an Egyptian city and a tourist center situated at the Red Sea.
Hmm, all those names of seas/lakes with some descriptive adjective as this one, initially makes me think that the water colour IS red indeed :)
The city was founded in the early 20th century, and since the 1980's has been continually e
Vienna, Austria (07)
2008-09-15 04:51:00
Finally, here I AM!
I have absolutely NO idea where did my weekend go...stuck in work AND deadlines, that i had absolutely no time for this or anything for myself....not to mention that i didnt feel ok as well...really, i dont have the feeling that its Monday today...its more as if its the middle of the week...
I apologise to whom ever i owe an email or any kind of message/notification...one will
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Kipa, Finland
2008-09-15 04:49:00
I really really love this map card....at first you'll think it shows a map of Finland
, which in a way it does...but the actual thing this card is about is to advertise the bookstore chain "Kipa"..
All the cities on the map have/had Kipa bookstores. Thats why so many 'random' small cities are marked, while bigger ones, such as Turku for example, are missing. Kipa is a small booksore and fits bett
Machu Picchu, Peru
2008-09-15 04:47:00
And this is my new country!!! Number 81!!! We are moving forward, heehehhehehehee!!!
And i have this one thanks to Veronika who as well sent me that Valparaiso card, and as well two other Chilean cards, but you'll get to see them at some future update....I actually won this one in a lottery...and actually this is the first card i had won in a lottery, just that Veronika wasnt able to send them un
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Washington, USA
2008-09-15 04:44:00
This is the last of the set of 5 lighthouses Addis sent me...
It shows the Grays Harbour Lighthouse.......At 107 feet, Grays Harbour Lighthouse - also known as Westport Lighthouse - is the tallest lighthouse in the state of Washington
and one of the tallest on the Pacific Coast. Dedicated in 1898, this white octagonal tower and its two oil houses continue to mark the harbour entrance.
an
Valparaiso, Chile
2008-09-11 10:37:00
Ok, i hope today i will finally manage to make an update....the past few days ive been overloaded with some work, i can freely say from dawn to dusk..even later....so its been impossible to even think of an update....
Apologies to whomever is dropping by regularly and expects to find new stuff more often...yeah, this sounds vain, i know :))) But I do hope there are people like that indeed :)
So, i
Bangkok, Thailand
2008-09-11 10:35:00
I really love this night view of Bangkok
...
It shows the famous -Wat Phra Kaew - temple, which is the only temple with no monks.
In English it would be Temple of the Holy Jewel Image or commonly known as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha.
It is located on the ground of the Royal Palace in Bangkok and is the most revered Buddhist shrine in Thailand
.
Central to the temple is the Emerald Buddha, a
Scania, Sweden
2008-09-11 10:33:00
I know this will sound very cheesy but the greatest reason why i love this card, is coz of how the views are heart-shaped....more because it makes the card unusual...not coz i am a person who falls for images of hearts and couples and romance etc etc....coz i actually dont...
One thing i dont get it is WHY my scanner NEVER scans the 'waves' on the bottom of the cards...sometimes i manage to grasp
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Gibraltar (02)
2008-09-11 10:32:00
Here is my second Gibraltar
card...i have another one left (for now)....
Whenever i look at The Rock, i get some weird feeling in my stomach.....Monica (the sender of the card) says that the view from the top of the rock is simply amazing and that from its most southern point (where the lighthouse is) you can see Africa on most days!!!!
Now THATS a feeling...i mean, for some reason, i always get
Marken Island, The Netherlands
2008-10-12 02:08:00
I so much love this card....not just coz its a lighthouse, and dominated by the blue colour...the whole view is just beautiful...and i just love how that black line of birds 'cuts' the sky...it really brings some nice 'disturbance' to the overall peacefulness of the image..
This is a lighthouse on the former island Marken.
Marken is an island and gemeente (municipality), in west-central Netherla
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Universal Studios, USA
2008-10-12 02:06:00
The Famous Universal
Studios
...the card looks rather glamorous.
well...my initial relation to Universal Studious is the film industry...well...the card is actually related to the Universal Studios
Florida...which itself is an amusement park located in Orlando, Florida whose theme is the entertainment industry, in particular movies and television. Universal Studios Florida inspires its guests to
Gibraltar (03)
2008-10-12 02:04:00
Here is my third, and as of now, last card from Gibraltar
..
Somewhat different from the previous two, coz this one doesnt show a view on the famous Rock, but it shows a view, FROM The Rock...so, this is how the town and the Harbour look like from the upper Rock.
Hangzhou, China
2008-10-12 02:02:00
Thanks a lot to Wang Jia Yi for this beautiful card....I really wonder where the actual tone of green is coming from, but it definitely has a great effect over the card...
the card shows a Spring Night by the West Lake in the city of Hangzhou.
The West Lake, or in Chinese 西湖, is a famous fresh water lake, located in the historic centre of Hangzhou in the Zheijang province of eastern China
.
I
Turkey (03)
2008-10-12 02:01:00
An official card from Turkey
...my first official from there....and one of the 5 cards i got in return for only one of mine sent...yup, that was an interesting scene to watch of how cards were being sent to Macedonia...after one of mine got registered....
TR-11219
On the card you can see several of the most famous, and a must-visit places in Turkey.
The largest picture shows Alanya, and the castle
Cana Island, USA
2008-10-11 09:00:00
This is the Cana Island
lighthouse in the Door County in Wisconsin..
Springtime brings beautiful flowers and scents to the Cana Island area
Im mainly used to seeing lighthouses at piers or by the shore...so its a bit of a different view when you get to see a lighthouse among so much grass and flowers...and i really love the view on this card....reminds me of watching flashbacks of your life, lik
Peleş Castle, Romania
2008-10-11 08:50:00
A card from my friend Marija Dz. from her trip to Romania several years ago...
The Peleş Castle
is a Neo-Renaissance castle placed in an idyllic setting in the Carpathian Mountains near Sinaia, Romania on an existing medieval route linking Transylvania and Wallachia built between 1873 and 1883. It is considered by many one of the most beautiful castles in all Europe and was
Bonne Chance
2008-10-11 08:48:00
I wonder if owning this card would bring me some luck :)
I think that all the good-luck charms are placed here...well, ok, i didnt know the lady bugs were considered a good luck charm...in Macedonia, if you catch a lady bug, you need to let it go, so it can bring you guests to your house...
as for the four-leaf clover...i dont recall i have ever found one...even though ive had four-leaf clovers
Vysoké Tatry, Slovakia/Poland
2008-10-11 08:47:00
Here is another one of the forwarded cards (along with the one from Romania above)
I absolutely love the blue tone that dominates this one...
it was sent by a former Belgian pen friend, Tine Bouckhyt from a visit to Slovakia
Vysoké Tatry, or High Tatras, are a mountain range on the borders between Slovakia and Poland
(so again, double label...). They are part of the Eastern Tatras Mountains.
T
Lake Titicaca - Peru/Bolivia
2008-10-10 07:33:00
I have a question, since im obviously struggling with this issue....if you receive a card, which shows something that in one way or another is "shared" by two or three states/countries...how do you actually label it? Do you put all of the territories that place belongs to, you put one....you put none? This is not the first time i come across a card which shows something of a "shared" territory and
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Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina
2008-10-10 07:32:00
I have to say I got really worried when i figured out how many postcards i have in the back which need to be enriched with some writing....its impossible to manage them all and i keep wondering, what the hell was I thinking back then...couldnt I have slowed down instead of uploading so many cards?! So im, trying to pull forward cards as often as I can (of course, regarding if the country is approp
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Bieszczady Mountains, Poland
2008-10-10 07:28:00
Another postcard moved forward from the older ones...
....and as well, another postcard from a former pen-friend (Przemek Gorski from Poland
) with whom my communication has gone to hell....i really wonder why do i have to be such a lousy penpal...and why am i sooooo lazy when i need to get down to writing letters/emails...coz I actually WANT to do it...but i always have zillion of excuses of why
California, USA (05)
2008-10-10 05:52:00
well, if you wanted to argue with me for labeling two cards above as map cards, then you'll have to let it go this time, coz its more than obvious this IS a map card indeed....hehehehehe....
wanna know what the back of the card says?
Greetings From California
Nickname: The Golden State
Area in Square Mies: 158,297
Population: 25,000,000
Entered the Union: September 9th, 1850
well, as you can
Jakarta, Indonesia
2008-10-09 03:55:00
A view of Jakarta
at night...
I dont know if this fountain is of any particular significance or no...i dont even know if it has a name, coz its not stated on the card...though i think that since its already put on a postcard, there has got to be something important related to it...or that it least has a name...if anyone knows, you know what to do..:)
Did you know that Jakarta used to have sever
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Budva, Montenegro (04)
2008-10-09 03:54:00
My dad went to Montenegro
for 10 days...and when he got back, he brought me 7 postcards! Which wouldnt be surprising in general, but he brought me the cards without me even mentioning anything...
I talked him on the phone a few times while he was there, but due to the way our conversations went with 'yes...aha...no...i dont know..maybe', i never found it appropriate to bring up the issue of post
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