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Canadian Food

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Pesto alla Genovese

Italian recipe. Postcard written between Italy & Spain, in-flight.

Postcard sent by Ashley (Canada) and  Bruno (PC).

Sunday Stamps | Ironbridge

This stamp belongs to the 2011 series A to Z Britain. Taken from here:

Ironbridge is a village on the River Severn, at the heart of the Ironbridge Gorge, in Shropshire. It lies in the civil parish of The Gorge, in the borough of Telford and Wrekin. Ironbridge developed beside, and takes its name from, the famous Iron Bridge, a 30 metre cast iron bridge that was built across the river there in 1779. The bridge was the first cast iron arch bridge in the world.

The bridge, the adjacent settlement of Ironbridge and the Ironbridge Gorge form the UNESCO Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site.

I got recently the stamp on the back of a postcard sent by John (the UK), showing an older view of the same bridge:

The Iron Bridge, 1779
From an engraving by Michael Angelo Rooker, 1782

This is a post for Sunday Stamps. The theme today is Bridges.

Postbox Saturday | Burjassot

Carrer de Bautista Riera

Carrer de Blasco Ibáñez

Plaça de Sant Joan de Ribera

Idem

Lions!

Envelope made by Fabienne (France) out of a page of a magazine. With a beautiful array of vintage blue stamps. And a wonderful 2022 stamp, dedicated to artist Rose Bonheur (and matching with the background, too!).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Three Days of Peace and Music

I didn't find any book cover or movie poster for this week's Thursday Postcard Hunt, so I thought a festival poster could do:

It evokes the original promotional poster for Woodstock Festival of 1969. Philip (the USA) sent it with matching stamps, issued on August 2019 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the festival. (More about these stamps.)

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Thursday Postcard Hunt

January theme: WORDS

• Week 1 - City, country name
• Week 2 - Book covers, movie posters
• Week 3 - Graffiti, thought bubbles
• Week 4 - Inspirational thought, funny sayings

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Het Sieboldhuis

On this postcard sent by Heleen (the Netherlands) you can see Sieboldhuis. Franz Philipp von Siebold (1796-1866) lived in this house and displayed his collection of Japanese objects and artefacts to a captivated public. Today,  his former residence is the first official Japan centre in the Netherlands.

On the back of the postcard, as a stamp, I introduce you Siebold himself!

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)

They Can Rescue You

«Beautiful letters and gifts through the post won’t take away all the distress in the world but they can certainly rescue you from it for a time.»

@letterappsoc

Sunday Stamps | Churches on French Stamps

The first Sunday Stamps topic this year is Places of Worship. I am showing some churches on stamps recently received on envelopes sent by Fabienne.

Sainte chapelle de Riom
1971

Cathédrale d'Aix la Chapelle (Germany)
1972

Abbaye de St-Pierre-sur-Dives et de Bernay
1979

Église Jeanne d´Arc à Rouen
1979

The Saint Vincent de Rouen church was famous for its 16th century stained glass windows. Despite the destruction of the church during the Second World War, the stained glass windows, dismantled, were able to be saved; they were incorporated to the modern church of Saint Joan of Arc (1979). The stamp shows a detail of those stained glass windows: Simon the Magician tears up his books during an argument with St Peter in the presence of the crowd. 

A Letter Writing a Letter

This might easily be one of my favourite stamps ever.

(It belongs to the 1997 series: Le Voyage d'une lettre.)

Epiphany

I have a small collection of stamps depicting the Three Wise Men. I am happy to add one more stamp this year!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Countries

These World Travel postcards seem to be very popular among the postcrossers. However, I don't recall getting any of them before. Actually, these three arrived together from the Netherlands, sent by Heleen. One thing I like about them is that they feature the country post boxes!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt

January theme: WORDS

• Week 1 - City, country name
• Week 2 - Book covers, movie posters
• Week 3 - Graffiti, thought bubbles
• Week 4 - Inspirational thought, funny sayings

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Winter Envelopes

 

Sent by Laura (the UK) and Fabienne (France).

SEPAC Competition: Traditional Markets

Vote for the 2023 SEPAC stamp and take part in the competition for year packs from the Member States and the 2023 Sepac souvenir folder

SEPAC is an abbreviation for Small European Postal Administration Cooperation. The 12 island states or small nations that issue Sepac stamps are Faroe Islands, Åland, Greenland, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Malta and Vatican City. Each year, Member countries issue a Sepac stamp according to a common theme. The theme can be landscapes or local characteristics.

You have the opportunity to vote for the most captivating SEPAC stamp of 2023/2024 and, simultaneously, enter a draw to win year collections from all the participating SEPAC member countries that issue SEPAC stamps. This competition is open until January 31, 2024.

Happy New Year

Mail sent by Phillip (the USA) and Sandrine (France).

Traditional Thai Sweets
Thailand, 2018