Thursday Postcard Hunt | My Happy Place Is Next to a Lighthouse!

Mevagissey
CORNWALL

1. List-Ost - 2. List-West - 3. Quermarkenfeuer Rotes Klift - 
4. Kampen - 5. Hörnum
GERMANY

Texel
NETHERLANDS

Aveiro
PORTUGAL

Barsagin Cape, Vladivostok
RUSSIA

Passing Lismore Lighthouse enroute for the island of Mull
SCOTLAND

The Cuckold's Light, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
USA

Postcards sent by Ania (UK), Birgit (Germany), Heleen (Netherlands), Pedro (Portugal), Vika (Russia) and Amber (USA).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
July theme: TRAVEL

• Week 1 - Your Own Country
• Week 2 - A place you'd like to visit (but haven't)
• Week 3 - A place you would not like to visit (for whatever reason)
• Week 4 - Getting around (train, bus, plane, stations, airports)
• Week 5 - Your happy place (beach, mountains, parks, cities, islands...)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

20 Years of Postcrossing (1)

I have not been a full 20 year postcrosser (only almost 17 years), and I confess I did not properly celebrate the day*. However, I am happy to see one of the most wonderful projects ever is still alive and growing in its 20th anniversary. 

As I was happy to get these postcards from Bryon! --Have you noticed the red postcard is also on the other one?!?

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*No worries: everyday is a good day to send postcards!

Fishing Season in My Mailbox (II)

The Whitefishes, 2007
Gregory Lee Blackstock (1946-2003)

Sent by Bryon. See also here and here.

Summer Mail - V

Colourful beach huts on West Beach (Whitsable, England, United Kingdom) under a moonlit sky and Whistable from the air. Postcards sent by Laura (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Christmas in July

I do not really understand the celebration of Christmas in July, but this is the first stamp that came to my mind...

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Christmas-in-July stamps.

Making Friends

 

Letter sent by Rosemary (Canada). Artistamp by Donovan Beeson.

Creating Light

Postcard made by Fabienne (France), out of a reused piece of packaging.

Envelope made by Heleen (the Netherlands), out of a page of a magazine.

Postcard made by Bryon (the USA), from reused packaging. It was sent after a big blackout in the area I live in.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Slowly

On the back:

From an original postcard of Miss Blossom E. Stevens, who worked as a postwoman during the First World War at Ashmore Post Office in Dorset, where her uncle was the Postmaster. The photograph was handed down to his great-niece, by whose permission is it reproduced.

 

And not so slowly, but still...

Manitou & Pikes Peak Railway. The steam train was an original mode of transportation up Pikes Peak, by pushing a passenger car up and then pulling it down. There are 4 stops along the trip where they would get water. The steam train went out of service in 1958, but one is still in working condition today and makes an occasional trip each year. 

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
July theme: TRAVEL

• Week 1 - Your Own Country
• Week 2 - A place you'd like to visit (but haven't)
• Week 3 - A place you would not like to visit (for whatever reason)
• Week 4 - Getting around (train, bus, plane, stations, airports)
• Week 5 - Your happy place (beach, mountains, parks, cities, islands...)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Dog Bite Awareness

I guess the slogan on these postmarks is even more rellevant for the bunnies on the stamps.

And on this stamp it made a curious collage:

Mail & Relax

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Summer Mail - IV

In Welsch mythology, Dylan the sea god lives under the waters of Cardigan Bay. He envies an old man with three daughters. He calls up a great storm, and sends a huge wave to steal the girls. Their father is heartbroken. Regretting his evil deed, Dylan turns the girls into seagulls, belonging both to the sea and the land. Since that day, when the old man walks on the beach and call their names, three white gulls fly to him from the sea.

Illustration by Daniel Mackie. Sent by Phillip (the USA).

Sunday Stamps | Dreamy Blue Landscapes

Go to Sunday Stamps to enjoy more Blue stamps!

The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case

Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was a bit of a mail fan. In 1889 he invented "The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case," a little case with twelve separate pockets in which people could keep stamps of different denominations. The stamp case was sold with a little booklet called Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter Writing.

It seems you can still find one of these online for an exorbitant price.

The postcard was sent by Bryon (the USA).

(Pictures taken from this post.)

Tusello

Tusello is a service that allow you to turn your images into Correos stamps. There are some restrictions regarding images of people, but most illustrations are permitted. So, if you are willing to pay the extra fee, you can design your own stamps and even appear on them.

I got this stamp from a pen pal who works as a postal deliverer. She received the stamps as a gift for her 50 birthday. How cool is that?

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Expensive

I was hesitant to upload a postcard to this week Thursday Postcard Hunt, the theme being A place you would not like to visit (for whatever reason). Ont the one hand, I did not wish to offend anyone, sender or reader. On the other hand, my first thought when I get any postcard is often: "What a nice place to visit!". 

However, two weeks ago I got this postcard from Denmark (thanks to Phillip & Brian!). Lately, news from Danish postal service are too sad. Getting mail from there would become more difficult (or impossible?) after 2025, so I was more than happy to receive this one.

The city seems really beautiful but... Have you noticed the price of the postage?

50 DKK = 6,70 € = 7,87 USD = 10,68 CAD

Surely, the prohibitive price of postage or the impossibility of sending mail from there are enough reasons not to visit a place!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
July theme: TRAVEL

• Week 1 - Your Own Country
• Week 2 - A place you'd like to visit (but haven't)
• Week 3 - A place you would not like to visit (for whatever reason)
• Week 4 - Getting around (train, bus, plane, stations, airports)
• Week 5 - Your happy place (beach, mountains, parks, cities, islands...)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Summer Mail - III

Sent by Fabienne (France).

Only Talk about You

I guess in the penpalling world people can be as narcissistic as everywhere. However, throughout my correspondance years, my experience is exactly the opposite.

This finely ironic postcard made me laugh!

Is There Anything More French?

I had seen this stamp online, and Fabienne was thoughtful enough to send it to me. Plus, on a hand-made envelope that perfectly match with the theme.

Outside France, the baguette is often considered a symbol of French culture. It is curious to know that there are some myths associated to its origin. 

Sunday Stamps | Vilains

Sunday Stamps is today dedicated to Stories and folk tales. This is a recurrent theme on this blog, and I have used it for recent Sunday Stamps (here and here). So, I thought I was run out of stamps, but I remembered these Disney vilains. I am sure you recognize most of them!

Honest John (Pinocchio)
Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Captain Hook (Peter Pan)
Scar (The Lion King)

Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
Lady Tremaine (Cinderella)
Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Cruella De Vil (One Hundred and One Dalmatians)
Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland)

Who Would Not?

Back of a letter sent by Imma (PC).

It Is So Nice When People Appreciate Your Letters

Front and back of a letter sent to Pedro (Portugal), with my first mailzine.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Formentera

La Mola

Formentera is a small island next to Eivissa. I have never been there. From the postcards I have been receiving lately, it seems the paradise to me.

Es Pujols

Cap de Barbaria

Platja des Migjorn

Els Trucadors

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
July theme: TRAVEL

• Week 1 - Your Own Country
• Week 2 - A place you'd like to visit (but haven't)
• Week 3 - A place you would not like to visit (for whatever reason)
• Week 4 - Getting around (train, bus, plane, stations, airports)
• Week 5 - Your happy place (beach, mountains, parks, cities, islands...)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!