Postcard no. 12 received!

On February 3rd I received the 12th postcard. It came from Germany, the town of Lemgo. The travel time was 7 days.

Lemgo is a city in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of c. 42,000.
It was founded in the 12th century by Bernhard II at the crossroad of two merchant routes. Lemgo was a member of the Hanseatic League, a medieval trading association of free cities in several northern European countries such as The Netherlands, Germany and Poland. In Lemgo the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University is situated.

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Postcard no. 11 received!

The 11th postcard is received on February 2nd. It came from Taiwan! It took 11 days to get to me. It shows a landscape in the Fushan Botanical Garden.

Taiwan (Chinese: 臺灣 or 台灣; pinyin: Táiwān, also known, especially in the past, as Formosa (from Portuguese: Ilha Formosa, "Beautiful Island"), is an island or island group in the western Pacific Ocean located off the southeast coast of mainland China. The main island has constituted over 99% of the territory controlled by the Republic of China (ROC) after its defeat during the Chinese Civil War in 1950, and the country is now commonly known as "Taiwan".

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Flag of Taiwan

Postcard no. 10 received!

On February 2nd I received the 10th postcard. It shows the Petropavlovskaja Krepost (fortress), in St.Petersburg, Russia. The card was send in an envelope from the Ukraine.


Ukraine Ukrainian: Україна, transliterated: Ukrayina, [ukrɑˈjinɑ]; Russian: Украи́на; Crimean Tatar: Ukraina) is a country in Central and Eastern Europe. Ukraine borders the Russian Federation to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west, Romania and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after the Russian Federation.

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     Flag of the Ukraine

Postcard no. 9 received!

On February 1st I received a postcard from Norway! The card took 6 days to get to me. It shows pictures from a road between the cities Flekkefjord and Egusund. I have never been to Norway before, but would like to visit it someday.

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