Friday's mail

On Friday arrived these postcards:

Map of Italy

Snow Queen to my fairytale illustration collection

Traditional Chinese babies' bellyband

Viewcard of Czech Republic

Recent postcards (a lot of!)

Traditional costumes from the Netherlands

Kennedy Space Station

Kennedy Space Station, Florida, USA

Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Den Ham, Germany

Finnair

Map of Germany

Miffy

Moscow church night view

Krtek from my sister

Maori warrior, New Zealand

Night view of St. Petersburg, Russia

Map of Biskupin, Poland

Russian costume

Tallinn, Estonia

Tarnobrzeg, Poland

Thailand

Chugach State Park, USA

Mojave National Preserve, USA

Russia, minors' statue

Miffy

KLM planes from the Netherlands

Fairytale postcard and Palanga, Lithuania

I've been thinking that I would start to collect also fairytale postcards. Here is the first candidate to my collection, sent from Austria on this week.

Palanga is a seaside town in Lithuania. It's another postcard that I've received on this week.

Map postcard, illustrations and design

Map postcard of Utrecht area in the Netherlands.

 

French illustration by Gaëlle Boissonnard.

Sent from France.

Costume design by Erté for Madame Butterfly in the revue number "Heroines", Teatro Calderón, Barcelona, 1945. Postcard sent from Finland.

South Africa

Cape West Coast map card from South Africa.

Cape Town, South Africa.

Japan and China

The tallest Tokyo tower (TV tower) with cherry blossoms, Japan

Early summer view of bamboo grove at Sagano, Kyoto, Japan.

Wuhou Memorial Temple at Nanyang, China

10 viewcards from Uzbekistan

I think that Uzbekistan is so far the "rarest" country where I have received postcards from. And not just one, but ten! The sender tells that all the postcards present Samarqand, which is an old city in Uzbekistan with a lot of beautiful old buildings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miffy and map of Utrecht, Netherlands

Miffy cards are coming almost every day... and I like it. Also this one is from the Netherlands.

Together with Miffy arrived this map postcard of Utrecht area in the Netherlands.

Miffy mother & map postcard from Lithuania

One more Miffy postcard, of course from the Netherlands! I think this is Miffy's mother. The glasses with drinks remind me somehow of the earlier Miffy card... See my all received Miffy cards here.

This is a map postcard of Klaipèda, Lithuania. The sender tells that Klaipèda is a seaport by the Baltic Sea and also the third biggest city in Lithuania. A nice addition to my map postcard collection.

Miffy collection growing

My Miffy postacard collection is growing slowly but surely. This is from a friend who lives in the Netherlands. Thank you, Tarja!

Beautiful stamps from several countries

Bulgaria.

United States.

Latvia.

France.

South Africa.

Miffy, airplane, Holland and South Africa

Miffy postcard from the Netherlands. Made me smile, like always!

Airbus A380 postcard from France. My first airplane postcard!

Holland aka the Netherlands.

Paternoster, West Coast, South Africa. Postcard from my southafrican penpal. My first postcard from Africa!

Canada and Germany map postcards

Map postcard of Canada, received today.

Germany map postcard, received couple of days ago.

Bulgaria, Latvia, United States and Russia

Here are some recent postcards that I have received. There's still couple of more to upload, but let's start from these!

Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. Postcard from my penpal.

Riga, Latvia. Official postcrossing postcard.

United States. Official postcrossing postcard.

Mayakovskaya metro station, Moscow, Russia. Official postcrossing postcard.

Traditional costumes

I received this wonderful Native Americans (Navajo) postcard as a thank you postcard for an official postcrossing card that I sent to the USA. It is one of my favorite postcards so far!

The back of the postcard says: "Of the Native American tribes living within the United States, the Navajo is the largest. The Navajo Nation also possesses the largest reservation, encompassing some 27,000 square miles of land rich in oil, gas, coal and uranium. However, true wealth of the reservation and people lies not beneath the ground, but in daily life expressed through the art of weaving, traditional dress, and dance."

The postcard sender has added: "I could not agree more with the last sentence of the description. Navajo "code talkers" served in WWII because very few non-Navajos understood the language. The Navajo Nation is the only part of Arizona that does not observe Daylight Savings Time, because it is in more than one state."

This is Himba woman from Namibia. A very nice postcard, even if I just wish that it would be sent from Namibia! Instead it's from Germany.

This postcard is an official postcrossing postcard from Estonia, presenting the national costume. I like how different all these three costumes are compared to each others. In future I hope to get even more traditional costume postcards. The funny thing is that these arrived to me the same day. I often get postcards of certain theme at the same time.