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)

More Peace!

This year there is not EUROPA stamp contest, because all the participant countries are issuing a stamp with the same design, dedicated to Peace - the highest value of humanity.

I thought it would be nice to get the stamp from as many countries as possible. So I arranged some swaps that are ongoing. I got these three stamps last week. And the day before yesterday, more Peace stamps arrived: from Austria (again), Germany, Latvia and Romania. But there are still a lot of missing countries in my collection-to-be.

If you wish to swap this stamp (or swap it for a postcard, envelope, etc.), just let me know!

Sunday Stamps | Around Food

Obtaining ingredients

Preparing

Delicious Dishes

Gathering Around

This is a post for Sunday Stamps. Today's theme was, you guessed, Food.

Bookshops and Libraries on Postcards

Mural by Mandy Sue
Sark Star Books
Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA
(Sent by Phillip)

Little Free Library
Kingsburg, California, USA
Sent by Claire

Common Good Books (St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
Illustrated by Bob Eckstein
Sent by Laura (the UK)

National Library of Latvia (in Riga)
Sent by Taiga

Strand Book Store in New York,
with 18 miles of books (?!?)
Sent by Phillip (the USA)

Sunday Stamps | F for Fairy Tales

Some fairy tales and legends from around the world, for the letter F of Sunday Stamps!

Guaraná
Brasil, 2012

Víla Amálka (Fairy Amálka)
Czech Republic, 2016

Pixies and Giants
United Kingdom, 2009

Latvian Fairy Tales
Latvia, 2008

Snow White
USA, 2005

Dragons
USA, 2018

From different senders, all the dragons arrived almost the same day. Some of them on this perfect cover made by Phillip (Better pictures of the stamps on his D-post!):

Christmas Stamps Received

From Canada

From Croatia

From Denmark

(Christmas stamp and Christmas postmark)

From Latvia

 From the Netherlands

(December stamps)

From Palestine

(But received last June!)

 From the UK

(More of the first set published last year)

From the USA