I have been writing blogposts but not in my usual category. I’ve created a new one called Postcards and it is linked in the menu of my site. So it won’t be going out through my normal email feed. For almost a year now I’ve been a member of Postcrossing.net and enjoying receiving postcards from…
Tag: postcards
Finland
Scotland
Another first – this time from Scotland. I really like this one. It was a whole month after I’d received the one from China. A long wait.
China
First card from China. Surprising that it took this long as there are so many members in China.
Japan
My first card from Japan. Dancing Cranes.
USA
First card from the states!
Czechoslovakia
First card from Czechoslovakia. I am learning to spell these countries and learning something about each one from the messages handwritten on the back by the senders. Also learning some geography – a subject I hated while in school. Never too late to learn I guess 🙂 The great thing is that each sender loves…
Russia 3
My third card from Russia. By now I was learning from the stats at the Postcrossing site that there tens of thousands of members in several European countries and in China. In comparison there are only 5,600+ members in Australia. They work the system so that a different country is drawn each time someone requests…
Germany
My second card from Germany. Not really what I’d expect to get from Germany 🙂 But then, I’d begun buying cards wherever I visited too, even overseas.
Belarus
I’d only heard of Belarus in Eurovision and now I had my first card from this country.
Hungary
Starting to get quite a few countries now. First card from Hungary. I’d received several cards within a few days at this point. This was also one of the first postcards that wasn’t standard sized. I’d bought an album to hold 600 6×4 cards and suddenly I start getting cards that are oversized. Not sure…
Ukraine
First card from Ukraine