Monday, February 29, 2016

Hungary


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Budapest

This card shows the Parliament building in Budapest.  This is my first official Postcrossing postcard from Hungary!  

Sunday, February 28, 2016

China


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This card of a necklace comes with these awesome stamps.


Saturday, February 27, 2016

USA - Indiana


"I've been everywhere!"

A cute postcard I found at a local big-chain grocery store which sadly no longer sells postcards.  

Friday, February 26, 2016

USA - Ohio


Mirosku Bosatsu

Japanese Buddha from the 15th-16th Century

Housed at the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio.

Thursday, February 25, 2016

USA - Texas


Austin, Texas

My friend Chanelle sent me this card on one of her trips back to Texas.  It features the state capital of Texas.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Belarus/Russia


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Welcome to Belarus

Niasvizh

Astute blog watchers will notice that this card is from Belarus but has a Russian (RU) prefix instead of a Belarussian (BY) one!  The sender was visiting her grandmother in Belarus and sent this card from there, so (in Postcrossing terms) this was technically a card sent from Russia, but actually mailed from Belarus!)  

The card features Niasvizh Castle, a World Heritage site.




Monday, February 22, 2016

Siwtzerland


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Le Pont-Neuf, 1872 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If you play the "guess the country from the Postcrossing code" game and thought "CH = China", you would be wrong.  "CH" stands for Switzerland.

The painting of this card is held at the national Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Saturday, February 20, 2016

France


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Images du Gard

This postcard is of images from the city of Gard, France.

Friday, February 19, 2016

USA - Ohio


Fokker Dr. 1

This World War I era plane is housed at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.  Out of the original 320 Fokker Dr. 1s, none survive.  This one is a reproduction made for the museum.  This is the plane most associated with the infamous Red Barron, Manfred von Richthofen. 

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Slovakia


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Bratislava

This older-style card features Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Taiwan


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The beauty of Taipei and Tainen, Taiwan

The tall building on the right, where the sun rises fro, is Taiwan's highest building from 1983-1988 add the building at the left of it is Taipei 101, the current tallest building in Taiwan.

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Germany


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This card of these two playful grey kittens comes to us from Germany. 

Monday, February 15, 2016

Japan


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This card from Japan features Kobito a popular character from Japan.

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Friday, February 12, 2016

USA - Washington D.C.


A postcard from the US Postal Museum in Washington, D.C.

The card says:

Boy stretches to put his mail into this 1890's collection box.  Doremus-style mailboxes like this were as universal as blue mail boxes today.

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

USA - Oregon


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This super cute cat postcard comes from Eugene, Oregon.  This cat actually looks like what my own cat probably looked like when she was a kitten (though, probably with a bit longer hair!) 

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Sunday, February 7, 2016

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Finland


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Helsinki Helsingfors

This travel card from the 1930s of Helsinki's railway station comes to me from a Postcrossing meet up in Finland back on June 27, 2015!  It came with this cute stamp as well!


Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Germany


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Bonn

This card from Bonn, Germany features an inset of Beethovan and a photo of the Bonn Minster church built in between the 11th and 13th Century.

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Monday, February 1, 2016

Russia


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The Hermitage

This beautiful card comes from Moscow, Russia and is of the Large Italian Skylight room in the Hermitage Museum.