Sunday Stamps | Waving Flags

I am not the biggest fan of flags on stamps. But I recognise that they look far better when waving:

25th Anniversary of Independence
Georgia, 2016

State flag
Lithuania, 2019

Thailand, 2010

Estonia, 2023

Sunday Stamps theme is today National Holidays, Flags.

Saaremaa

According to the Postcrossing site, this postcard took 138 days to reach me from Estonia: sent on 22 October 2023, arrived on 8 March 2024. But the fact is that you can clearly see it was postmarked on 23 February. Maybe it was sleeping inside a post box during months, or maybe it was just sent four months after requesting the address, or maybe it was resent... We will never know!

I really like to get postcards from places I have visited!

European Capitals (Postcrossing)

Vienna (Austria)

I got this postcard from Vienna last November, through the Postcrossing site. I like to read postcrossers profiles and know about their preferences. Sometimes people are quite specific, and funny. There are also some people who are not, but they ask for postcards like "a view from the capital city of your country". 

Browsing among my received postcards, I have found that getting postcards from the capital cities is not as common as you might think. Maybe is just that I do not ask for them. But these are almost all the European capitals I have got as Postcrossing postcards.

I think it is curious that I have never received postcards featuring Berlin, Lisboa, Madrid...

Zagreb (Croatia)

Tallinn (Estonia)

Helsinki (Finland)

Rome (Italy)

Riga (Latvia)

Vilnius (Lithuania)

Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

Warsaw (Poland)

Bratislava (Slovakia)

Postcards from Estonia

Sent by Maili (Estonia).

The map of the country.

Sent by Mart (Estonia).

The postcard shows Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The old town of Tallinn is in the list of UNESCO Heritage Sites. I assure you it is worth visiting. There are a lot of interesting places like the St Catherine's passages featured in the postcard below.

Sent by Tuuliki (Estonia).

And this postcard (also sent by Mart) is really special because it inspired one of my trips (three years ago). As it had happened with Croatia! This is Kõpu lighthouse, in the Estonian island of Hiiumaa. It is one of the oldest lighthouses in the world, having been in use since 1531. Quite impressive! The stairs of this lighthouse are really different from the rest of lighthouses I've visited.