Christmas Lights

Bath (the UK) in Christmas. Sent by Laura (the UK).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Fly

No 46 "Night and Day"
Kristen Etmund

Ornament
A. Zakharchenko

Sent by Rosemary (Canada) and Eduard (Russia). 

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: ILLUSTRATIONS

• Week 1 - Maps
• Week 2 - Art
• Week 3 - Animals
• Week 4 - Food (or Plants)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

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).

Which One Would You Send?

Featuring the old town (Dalt Vila) of Eivissa (or Ibiza, as foreigners say) in the daylight and at night. I am glad I have got both!

More Waterfalls

After this post, I got (and sent!) some more waterfalls...

Deer Creek Falls, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Upper Falls, Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina
Waimoku Falls, Haleakalā National Park, Hawaii

LaSalle Canyon Waterfall, Starved Rock State Park, Oglesby, Illinois
Harrison Wright Falls, Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania
Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls State Park, New York

Nevada Fall, Yosemite National Park, CA
Stewart Falls, Mount Timpanogos Wilderness, UT
Sunbeam Falls, Mount Rainier National Park, WA

All these have arrived on letters from Phillip (the USA), like this one I got a week ago:

Front

Back

Funny enough, along with it I received the following Postcrossing vintage postcard from Niagara Falls (Canada):

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Cheekwood

Cheekwood is a historic estate on the western edge of Nashville, Tennessee that houses the Cheekwood Estate & Gardens. Formerly the residence of Nashville's Cheek family. The Georgian-style mansion was opened as a botanical garden and art museum in 1960.

There is an old map on the postcard above, and a view of the façane below.

It looks very different in full colour!

Postcards sent by Phillip (the USA).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
February theme: MAPS

• Week 1 - Country
• Week 2 - City or Metro/Transportation
• Week 3 - With Pictorial Landmarks
• Week 4 - States/Provinces/Counties

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Waalbrug

Several views from the Waalbrug, an arch bridge over the river Waal, in Nijmegen.

It  was opened on 16 June 1936. The full length of the Waalbrug is 604 metres, the middle of the arch being about 65 metres  high. The arch itself is 244.1 metres long and was the longest arch in Europe at the time of construction.

All these postcards were sent by Heleen (the Netherlands). I had uploaded some of them to this post, with matching stamps.

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
September theme: BRIDGES

• Week 1 - Stone, Brick
• Week 2 - Long, Curvy
• Week 3 - Iron, Rail
• Week 4 - Wooden, Covered, Swinging

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Postcards from Bergamo

Would you say it is the same city on the three postcards?

Greek Postcards

This week's theme in Postcards for the Weekend is: from a country you would want to live in if you have the chance/choice. I am currently living abroad, and the next country I will live in is... mine (from 2018 on, or that is the plan).

If I had to choose another country, it would be (probably) Greece. It is funny that I have sent more postcards from Greece (see here, or here...) than I have got! Actually, I have received only four postcards from that country in my whole life: two of them through the Postcrossing site, and two of them are a similar view, but with different light.

But it was looooong time ago. So, if you are reading this from any place in Greece... Would you like to swap a postcard?

Lesbos (Λέσβος)
Sent by Angela

Daily life in an Ionian island (Western Greece)
Sent by Dmitris

Athens
Sent by Wahiba

Athens
Sent by Ana

Mail Is a Bridge between Us

Segura river in Murcia (Spain)
Sent by Heleen

Waalbrug bridge in Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
Sent by Heleen

Bruges (Belgium)
Sent by Catherine (France)

HSL-bridge Moerdijk (2006)
Almen bridge over Twentekanaal (1946)
(The Netherlands)

(More bridges)

Nijmegen Bridge

After so many bridges sent, Heleen (the Netherlands) was flabbergasted to discover that she had never sent her favourite bridge to me: the Waalbrug, an arch bridge over the river Waal, in Nijmegen.

It was worth waiting, because I received not only one postcard, but two, and added perfectly matched stamps:

On the left, an illustration by Sieb Posthuma. The night picture (also on the postcard) is by Quinta Buma.

The third stamp, received on another postcard, keeps me intrigued: is there a stamp inside a stamp?

Standing Stones

Two postcards of Callanish Standing Stones in the Isle of Lewis, sent by John (the UK). 

I love the different light in both pictures. These standing stones always intrigue me. Let me post again the stamp about Carnac Stones:

Along with this one about Locmariaquer Megaliths, also in Brittany (France).

On October 1st 2014, Correos issued also one stamp about the Talaiotic Culture, showing one of these impressive Bronze Age megaliths in the island of Menorca. An innovative and surprising aspect of this stamp: it is encrusted with a small amount of limestone dust from the area where the monuments stand. The surface is a bit rough.

And now I need a stamp or a postcard of Obelix...!

PS I am not sure if this post can fit in today's topic of Sunday Stamps - II: Rocks, Gems, Minerals.

Rome

I had received this postcard from Chicca (Italy) long time ago. It shows the Spanish Steps (or Piazza di Spagna) in Rome (Italy):

And then I received the second version from Aarón (Spain). I don't know why, but I really love having two versions from the same postcards (daylight and night, or colour and b/w, inside and outside, old and new, etc.). Maybe I need to add a new category for touristy postcards: crowded and empty.

In fact, the second postcard was sent form Spain... (I never know where my friend is!)

... and written in Arabic!

Canterbury

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

The University graduation procession through the cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral (the UK). I have received more postcards showing the cathedral of Canterbury. I am not sure, but I bet I own every single existing postcard about the cathedral of Canterbury issued in the last ten years. One of my best friends lives there, and she is a big lover of both cathedrals and postcards.

What makes special this postcard, in my opinion, is that is shows real life. This postcard has reminded me that this time last year I was spending my holidays in Liverpool (the UK). It was impossible to enter in the cathedral because of these graduations... (finally we did!).

More beloved views of Canterbury Cathedral (too much?):

At night

As I see the cathedral first time I visited Canterbury.

Eye-bird view

I think this is my favourite

Empty cloister