Helsinki, Finland
2008-08-17 02:55:00
A really lovely card from Helsinki
....my first card from the Finnish capital!
The card shows the Uspenski Orthodox Cathedral.
Its name comes from the Russian word uspenie, which denotes the Ascension. (in Macedonian we also use that word, 'uspenie').
Uspenski Cathedral is the main cathedral of the Finnish Orthodox church and claimed to be the largest Orthodox church in Western Europe....ev
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Australia
2008-08-17 02:54:00
A very cool card with some Australia
n Road Signs.....is this really authentic and you can actually see this signs across Australia...or its just an interesting way to represent part of the Australian culture and animals???
Not much explanation required....the card says it all.
Just got me into thinking if this kind of card was supposed to be created about Macedonia, what would it actually show o
Copenhagen, Denmark
2008-08-17 02:51:00
An older card, which frankly i have no idea when i had got it and how i had got it.....
Did you know that according to some surveys done, people in Denmark
are considered to be the happiest people in the world?
It is said that the Danes pay some of the highest taxes in the world, but in exchange, the government covers all health care and education, and spends more on children and the elderly tha
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Gibraltar
2008-08-17 02:49:00
And a new spot on the list of countries/territories covered....number 73 goes to Gibraltar
!
And now I actually have 3 Gibraltar cards, but ill show them off one at a time....as usual :)
Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar.
The territory shares a border with Spain to the north.
The name of the ter
Ohrid, Macedonia
2008-08-17 02:48:00
And the final card for today comes from my own Macedonia
:)
A friend of mine went there for holidays and of course, i bugged her to send me a card (as i always annoy people when they go somewhere :P)
Believe it or not, the card took 6 days to arrive from Ohrid to Skopje.....the efficiency of the postal service is really amazing me sometimes!
Well, what i like is that i dont have this card in my c
Thailand
2008-08-15 06:18:00
My first official card from Thailand
TH-10445
It shows a Floating Market....this is the first time ive actually heard of an existence of something as a Floating Market. Looks as something interesting, though i wonder what happens when there is a lot of traffic and the boats get stuck....there are no signs, no traffic lights....can get quite hectic.
As i have read, these floating markets are a fe
Moscow, Russia
2008-08-15 06:17:00
A really older card. On the back it says it was printed in 1982! But it is in an extremely good condition!
This actually comes in a pack of 10 cards...or more actually...havent counted them in a long time.
On this one in particular, you can see the Moscow
river (503 km), which flows through the Moscow and Smolensk Oblasts in Russia
and is a tributary of the Oka River. The city of Moscow is named
Saaremaa, Estonia
2008-08-15 06:16:00
A card from Estonia
showing the island of Saaremaa.....mmmmm, an island....
Saaremaa is the largest Estonian Island, located in the Baltic Sea, belonging to the west Estonian archipelago.
Its capital is Kuressaare. It has around 39.000 inhabitants.
An interesting fact i read about it: In 1946 Saaremaa was declared a restricted zone, closed to foreigners and to most mainland Estonians. It remaine
Singapore
2008-08-15 06:14:00
Another card from Singapore
...addressed to me ;-)
This card here shows the Singapore's most famous symbol - The Merlion - part fish, part lion.
You actually DONT want to know, to what this figure reminds me whenever i look at it...nope, i aint saying....its ridiculous :) well, its cos seen from the back, it does look to me like it....when seen from the front its as if its a totally differe
Schwäbische Alb, Germany
2008-08-15 06:11:00
A really cool map showing the Swabian Alb in Germany
.
It is named after the region of Swabia.
The Swabian Alb occupies the region bounded by the Danube in the southeast and the upper Neckar in the northwest. The highest mountain of the Swabian Alb is the Lemberg, 1015m.
The Alb's profile resembles a high plateau, which slowly falls away to the southeast. The northwestern edge is a steep escarpme
Coffee
2008-08-13 05:05:00
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, my first coffee card!!!!! If you know how much i love coffee, then youd know how much i love this card as well...
The special thing about this card is that it came TOTALLY unexpectedly, as a part of a RAS RR, on behalf of Jessica, who actually sent me the Alcatraz card i liked so much, and now she thought of me to include me in this RR, and the person who sent it (homine) sent m
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Goethenburg, Sweden
2008-08-13 05:04:00
My first Swedish card in years!! Or more particularly since the late '90s.
The card shows Goethenburg, or particularly, a view of the Göta Canal, the channel around which the city is buily. It ends in the sea, which you can see in the background off the card.
The canal itself is 190km long, has 58 locks and can accommodate vessels up to 32m. long, 7m. wide and 2.8m. in draft.
Goethenburg is the
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New York, USA
2008-08-13 04:59:00
A map card from the state of New York
As with all the states, New York as well has its motto, its flower/tree etc.
Now, here is how it stands:
- Capital: Albany
- Flower: Rose
- Tree: Sugar Maple
- Motto: Excelsior, Ever Upward (duh?!) Someone will have to explain this to me a bit :/
Btw, even though Albany is the capital, the largest city is New York City, or the Big Apple, if you wish
Glasgow, Scotland
2008-08-13 04:57:00
A nice Scottish card, showing Glasgow
On this card you can see a view of the Glasgow Cathedral, from Cathedral Square.
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland
, and the third most populous in the UK
Now, in case you wondered why i dont label places in Scotland as coming from the UK actually....I dont know....I like Scotland, and it feels more specific like that, instead labeling EVERYTHING insid
Budapest, Hungary
2008-08-13 04:55:00
One of my numerous Budapest
cards bought in 2001 when i went there....
So its not a newly received card, but an older one...as i said a few days ago, ill try and include an older card in each day i post, so apart from it contributing to the variety, i will also be able to make a balance between the old and new cards, and as well, manage to show those older cards as well instead leave them until
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Kyoto, Japan
2008-08-12 07:26:00
An absolutely amazing card!
This is the Kinkaku-Ji Temple in Kyoto
, Japan
(also known as Rokuon-Ji) which is as well a UNESCO whs.
Translated, Kinkaku-Ji means "The Golden Pavilion Temple".
This has got to be one of the most serene cards ive ever seen....you can even feel the stillness floating in the air and dont want to utter a sound or make a move in order not to disrupt the perfectio
Turkey
2008-08-12 07:25:00
A Perfect Turkish Flag, thanks to Raquel!
Red flag with a white crescent and star.
The star and the crescent are Muslim symbols but also have a long pre-Islamic past in Asia Minor. The basic form of the national flag was apparently established in 1793 under Sultan Selim III, when the green flags used by the navy were changed to red and a white crescent and multipointed star were added.
Many trad
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France
2008-08-12 07:23:00
An amazing, breathtaking view of a lighthouse, thanks to Valerie!
It is called The Four Lighthouse.
It was first operating in 1874 and was put in automatic in 1992. The rock on which it was built, is a natural barrier for breaking the waves coming with the strong west winds.
The Four lighthouse indicates the south-west entry of the English Channel. It is certainly one of the most approache
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Belgrade, Serbia
2008-08-12 07:20:00
An older card....which i dont know exactly when i had got it, neither if its me who bought it when i have been in Belgrade
, or someone has given it to me....
Shows a nice view over the central part of the city and the Parliament...in the background you can also see a river...well, one on the left, one on the right....its a bit gloomy there, so i cant tell exactly if its one river, or two merging
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Beni, Bolivia
2008-08-10 17:49:00
A card from Bolivia
...which as well makes it a new country in the collection.....its just that i dont know if i should be angry to myself about it, excited...happy...frustrated...or everything together...the story behind the card will actually make it clear....I was going through some old mail the other day...all the letters i have received from penfriends throughout the years, mainly coz of clean
Chaco Canyon, USA
2008-08-10 17:44:00
A UNESCO from the US...Located in remote Chaco Canyon
National Monument, New Mexico, Pueblo Bonito ruin, dates to the A.D. 900's. It was once up to four stories high, contained 800 rooms, 32 kivas (round ceremonial chambers) and was constructed of more than a million dressed stones. Here in Chaco Canyon, the prehistoric Anasazi people established a ritual and cultural centre. The monument occupoes
Nieuwpoort, Belgium
2008-08-10 17:42:00
And another UNESCO, coming from Belgium
this time...its one of those under the "Belfries of Belgium and France"ok.....according to the translator, 'kust' means 'a coast' which makes sense, since Nieuwpoort is a coastal town.....so this would mean something like Belgian coast, on the front, right?and i guess this is the town hall? according to how it looks like...unfortunately, couldnt find a lot o
Tiské stěny, Czech Republic
2008-08-10 17:39:00
The last card shown for today comes from the Czech
Republic
...Tiské stěny (The Tisa Walls) called after the nearby village Tisa, is the name of a formation of sandstone rocks in the Bohemian Switzerland.well, most of the info is in Czech....so i cant (again) be of a great help here...well, just enjoy the picture....
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Taj Mahal, India
2008-08-08 18:43:00
And here is country number 71 in my collection....India
!!! And not just one, but 6 cards!!! But of course, will show them one at a time ;-)
Mmmmm, Taj Mahal
....always causes sighs and admiration in me.
A mausoleum, built under Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in loving memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal, as a symbol of eternal love.
Well, its probably something every woman would be proud of, if her man d
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Ostrog, Montenegro
2008-08-08 18:42:00
Well, not a newly received card actually....not that im out of cards...i have like over 20 pending....but i got this insane idea that i need to mingle my older ones as well...i mean, i barely manage to keep up with the newly received ones, so i dont know how i will with these ones added on top of that...but i was thinking...and the moment i started uploading my newly received cards, i had like hun
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Bodrum, Turkey (02)
2008-09-07 11:02:00
A card showing a night-view of Bodrum
, brought to me by a friend some years ago...2003 if i can recall correctly...
Bodrum is a famous tourism city which has the first underwater archaeology museum of Turkey
in its gorgeous castle inherited from Rhodes Knights. The oldest known name of it is Halikarnas (Halicarnassus). In ancient times, Halikarnas was a city of Karya covering
Atlanta, USA
2008-09-07 11:00:00
A really nice night view of Atlanta
...
US-243745
The back of the card says: As the sun goes down, the lights come on in Georgia.
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the state of Georgia and the core city of the ninth most populous metropolitan area in the United States.
The sender of the card says that there is always something going on in Atlanta at any time of day and night, and t
Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
2008-09-07 10:59:00
My dad brought me this card from one of his trips to Germany
..
It shows the Neuschwanstein Castle
which is a 19th century Bavarian palace on a rugged hill near Hohenschwangau in southwest Bavaria, Germany.
he palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as a homage to Richard Wagner the King's inspiring muse. Although public photography of the interior is not permitted
Japan (02)
2008-09-06 06:39:00
Well, today is gonna be a map day... a totally spontaneous choice actually, nothing i planned, even though it may seem so, knowing how much i love maps...
I really love this map....its so colourful and picturesque...when i was examining it, I realized that i have heard of many of the cities on the map, due to reading Murakami's books, who always uses different places in Japan
for setting his plo
Scotland (03)
2008-09-06 06:37:00
What a lovely Scottish map!!! That blue background makes it soooooo magnificent...as if its the actual deep blue sea....I love love love this card....along with the Japanese map, its one ticked off my wishlist :)
You know whats funny actually...and I JUST realized it as i started writing this...there is a football match Macedonia:Scotland
today...hhahahhaa....what a coincidence...i cant believe
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