maandag 12 maart 2012

Postcard no. 20 received!

On February 17 I received the 20th postcard. it came from Germany, Bad Hersfeld.

The festival and spa town of Bad Hersfeld is the district seat of Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany, roughly 50 km southeast of Kassel.
Bad Hersfeld is known countrywide above all for the Bad Hersfelder Festspiele (festival), which have taken place each year since 1951 at the monastery ruins. These themselves are said to be Europe’s biggest Romanesque church ruin.

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 Stamp used on the postcard

Postcard no. 19 received!

On February 16 I received postcard no. 19 from Taiwan. It shows a weather map of Taiwan in 1960. Every summer lots of typhoons hit Taiwan, it was the first one in 1960.

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Stamp used on the card

Postcard no. 18 received!

On February 15 I received a card from Napoli, Italy! With very nice stamps from the sixties on the back.

Naples (Italian: Napoli, Neapolitan: Napule) is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. Naples is known internationally for its history, art, architecture, music, and gastronomy, and has played an important political and cultural role both within and beyond the Italian peninsula throughout its 2,800-year existence.

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It shows Castel S. Elmo

Stamps used on the card, also stamps from "Poste Vaticane", dating from the sixties!

Map of Italy

Flag of Italy

Postcard no. 17 received!

Also on February 14 I received a card from China. It shows the area of Mount Huangshan in Anhui Province China.

Huangshan (simplified Chinese: 黄山; traditional Chinese: 黃山; pinyin: Huángshān; literally "Yellow Mountain"), is a mountain range in southern Anhui province in eastern China. The range composed of material that was uplifted from an ancient sea during the Mesozoic era, 100 million years ago. The mountains themselves were carved by glaciers during the Quaternary. Vegetation on the range is thickest below 1,100 meters (3,600 ft), with trees growing up to the treeline at 1,800 meters (5,900 ft).
The area is well known for its scenery, sunsets, peculiarly shaped granite peaks, Huangshan Pine trees, and views of the clouds from above. Huangshan is a frequent subject of traditional Chinese paintings and literature, as well as modern photography. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of China's major tourist destinations.

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 The well-known Ying Ke Pine, or Welcome Pine

 Chinese stamps on the postcard

A Qing-era Chinese ink painting depicting Huangshan

 Flag of China

Postcard no. 16 received!

On February 14, I received the 16th postcard, from Belarus (in Dutch = Wit-Rusland).

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Stamps used on the card

Postcard no. 15 received!

On February 8 postcard no. 15 arrived. It came from Germany, Greifswald.
Greifswald, officially, the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (in German Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald) is a town in northeastern Germany. It is situated in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at an equal distance of about 250 kilometres (160 mi) from Germany's two largest cities, Berlin and Hamburg. The town borders the Baltic Sea, and is crossed by a small river, the Ryck. It is also located near Germany's two largest islands, Rügen and Usedom as well as near three of the country's 14 national parks. A former district-free town, it is the capital of the new district of Vorpommern-Greifswald since the September 2011 district reforms.
The population is about 55,000, including 12,500 students and 5,000 employees of the University of Greifswald. Greifswald is internationally known due to the university and the Nord Stream gas pipeline project.

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 Stamps used on the postcard

Postcard no. 14 received!

On February 7 I received the 14th postcard from Russia, Moscow. The card was sent in an envelope with very nice stamps on it!

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Moscow - Russia / View of Moscow from the Upper Kremlin Garden, 1816

Stamps used on the envelope

Flag of Russia

Postcard no. 13 received!

On February 6, I received a card from Finland. From the town of Oulu. Oulu is a city and municipality of 143,988 inhabitants (31 January 2012) in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, in Finland. It is the most populous city in Northern Finland and the sixth most populous city in the country. It is one of the northernmost larger cities in the world.
The card shows ice on the Bothnia Sea near Finland.

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Stamp used on the card

Flag of Finland