Travelling through Letters

The envelope below was sent by John (the UK), and it is covered with fabric. It travelled well, surprisingly.

Among other postcards, it contained this second-hand postcard of The Needles.

Dinosaur Delivers

You must sent your letters with a reliable postal service these days...

Sent to Heleen (the Netherlands), from one of Naomi's templates.

Gap

By Tom Gauld

There will be a gap in everyone memoirs, corresponding to 2020 Spring...

Postcard sent by John (the UK).

Sunday Stamps | Easter Traditions

In 2016, the Traditions and Customs series in Spanish Philately was dedicated to the celebrations of the Holy Week that take place in different cities. The mini-sheet contained 8 stamps, incense-scented:

There were similar issues on 2017 and 2019:

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I am not a big fan of the Holy Week traditions, but I was amused that some Playmobil are. I made this envelope out of a calendar, and sent it to Laura (the UK) last year. I am afraid there are no public celebrations this year.

Back of the envelope

Green Letters

Sent to Laura (the UK).

Received from Catherine (France). In Breton folklore, a Korringan is a fairy or dwarf-like spirit.

20th Century Postcards

Through the window of Claire's Cake Shop in Padstow, 1956
John Gay

People longing for things they can't have right now...

More postcards from the beginning of the last century, sent also by John (the UK) with a previous letter:

Corporation St. (north of Miller Street), Manchester, UK

A back-to-back courtyard, c. 1900

Mersey Railway Chain Drive Bus (introduced December 1905)

Political Messages on Postcards?

Johann Wolfang Von Goethe

Elective Affinities, 1809

(Bibliophilia: 100 Literary Postcards)

Postcards can carry all kind of messages on the back... But also on the front. I cannot think of a theme which there is no postcard about. Can you?

Class in a Capitalist Society, 1980

Cover by Jones Thompson

Peace, Ervin Bossanyi, 1957

South East Transept

Canterbury Cathedral, UK

Oberbaum Bridge, Berlin, Germany

(It connects the Eastern and Western parts of the city during the Cold War. It was used to exchange political prisoners that West Germany sought free.)

Postcards sent by Laura (the UK) and Lioba (Germany).