Reflection

Beautiful reflection of clouds on the lake.

Travelling time : 10 days

Travelling distance : 9,022 km

Taroko National Park

Is one of the seven national parks in Taiwan and was named after the Taroko Gorge, the landmark gorge of the park.The second largest national park in Taiwan. It is famous for the spectacular mountains and marble canyons.

Nice stamps. Thanks Sanio.

Travelling time : 11 days

Travelling distance : 3,233 km

Luzern

Or Lucerne, is a city in in north-central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of that country.

Great circle-shape stamp of Olympic Games Sydney 2000.

Thanks Diego from Luzern.

Travelling time : 8 days

Travelling distance : 10,004 km

Santa at Korvatunturi

From Wiki,

Korvatunturi is a fell in Urho Kekkonen National Park, Lapland, on the border of Finland (in the municipality of Savukoski) and Russia. Its height is 486 metres (roughly 1594 feet) from sea level. It has three peaks. The border is drawn through the middle peak. The name translates to "Ear Fell".

Korvatunturi is the place where Father Christmas (or Joulupukki in Finnish) lives. This legend comes from a children's radio show calledMarkus-sedän lastentunti ("Children's hour with Uncle Markus") hosted by Markus Rautio and broadcast by the Finnish Broadcasting Company between years 1927 and 1956. Uncle Markus told children that from this "Ear Fell" Father Christmas can hear what all the children are saying so he can find out if the children behave and obey their parents (and therefore may receive gifts next Christmas).

More stories on Christmas in Santa Claus’ home at Korvatunturi mountain here (http://www.santaclaus.fi/?deptid=8320)

Thanks Karen.

Travelling time : 7 days

Travelling distance : 9,104 km

Erbendoft

Erbendorf is a town in the Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz) region of Germany. As of December, 2006, the town has a population of 5,341.

Thanks Fabian from Bavaria.

Travelling time : 7 days

Travelling distance : 9,703 km

Puzzle Card

Creative puzzle card. Comes with a plastic cover.
Sent by Kirstin and her son, Jordan, from Vahrenwald.





Travelling time : 9 days
Travelling distance : 9,861 km

Monument to the Soldier Constitutionalist

Sao Paulo. Thanks Mauricio.

Travelling time : 23 days

Travelling distance : 15,811 km

Murmansk, Kola Bay

Murmansk is a city and seaport in the extreme north-west part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, 12 kilometres (7 mi) from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland.

Thanks Natasha.

Travelling time : 16 days

Travelling distance : 8,818 km

Suomi

From Anne.

Travelling time : 8 days

Travelling distance : 8,892 km

Aurora

Sent by Anne. Finnish word for Aurora is 'Revontulet', which translated directly as 'foxfires'. According to old Finnish folklore, Northern Lights were created by the fox running in the snow on cold winter nights and its tail striking fire to the sky. Interesting!

The truth about aurora is here, according to Wiki ;

Auroras, also known as northern and southern (polar) lights or aurorae (singular: aurora), are natural light displays in the sky, particularly in the polar regions, and usually observed at night. They typically occur in the ionosphere. They are also referred to as polar auroras. This is a misnomer however, because they are commonly visible between 65 to 72 degrees north and south latitudes, which place them a ring just within the Arctic and Antarctic circles. Aurorae do occur deeper inside the polar regions, but these are infrequent and often invisible to the naked eye.

In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, by Pierre Gassendi in 1621.The aurora borealis is also called the northern polar lights, as it is only visible in the sky from the Northern Hemisphere, with the chance of visibility increasing with proximity to the North Magnetic Pole. (The North Magnetic Poleis currently in the arctic islands of northern Canada.) Auroras seen near the magnetic pole may be high overhead, but from farther away, they illuminate the northern horizon as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the Sun were rising from an unusual direction. The aurora borealis most often occurs near the equinoxes. The northern lights have had a number of names throughout history. The Cree call this phenomenon the "Dance of the Spirits." In Europe, in the Middle Ages, the auroras were commonly believed a sign from God (see Wilfried Schröder, Das Phänomen des Polarlichts, Darmstadt 1984).

Travelling time : 11 days

Travelling distance : 9,077 km

Mapcard of Suomi

My first mapcard! Yeay! Thank you Helena.

Travelling time : 9 days

Travelling distance : 8,781 km

Rhine

Sent by von Hilden from Rhine (Rhein) of Düsseldorf, Germany.Thanks.

Travelling time : 8 days

Travelling distance : 10,072 km

More of Helsinki

A wide postcard from Jatta.

Travelling time : 10 days

Travelling distance : 8,974 km

Washington, D.C

The Capitol of the United States crowns Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. It houses the legislative branch of government, which is comprised of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

This postcard is about Washington D.C but it comes from Fan in Shanghai, China.



Most interesting, it was wrongly sent to Osaka, Japan before it was sent to me. It has the MISSENT stamp on it :)


Travelling time : 17 days
Travelling distance : 3,754 km

Helsinki Square Card

A square card with multiview of Helsinki.

Travelling time : 11 days

Travelling distance : 8,974km

Nærøyfjord

UNESCO's world heritage list as an example of one of the world's most beautiful, classical fjord landscapes.
From Wiki,

The Nærøyfjord (Nærøyfjorden) is a fjord in the municipality of Aurland in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is about 17 kilometers long, and a branch of the large fjord Sognefjord. It is featured on the Norway in a Nutshell daytrips for tourists.
Since 2005, the Nærøyfjord is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has also been rated by the National Geographic Society as the world's number one natural heritage site, along with Geirangerfjord.

Thank you Mr Jo Vermund. Like it very much!

Travelling time : 8 days
Travelling distance : 10,051 km

Serro

From Wiki,

is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Conceição do Mato Dentro.

In colonial times the city was known by the name Vila do Príncipe (Princeville). In this city was born Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, one of the most prominent composers of the Classicism in Brazil.

Serro is well known for its traditional cheese, cultural richness, colonial influence and unique environment.

Beautiful architecture! Thank you Ana Paula.

Travelling time : 15 days

Travelling distance : 15,631 km

Hello Kitty in Kimono

Kawaii! Arigato april16, postcrosser from Japan.

Travelling time : 7 days

Travelling distance : 5,337 km

München

Or Munich, the capital city of Bavaria, Germany.

Munich hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics and is a candidate city for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Its native name, München, is derived from the Old German word Mönche, meaning "Monks".

A great stamp of Eugen Bolz (15 December 1881 – 23 January 1945), a German politician and a member of the resistance to the Nazi régime.

Thank you Birgit.

Travelling time : 9 days

Travelling distance : 9,751 km

Nowy Sącz

Is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland. It is the district capital of Nowy Sącz County. My very first card from Poland.

Guess that the building above is the Town Hall.

California

A mother sea otter floats among the kelp beds while holding her sleeping pup.

From Hillel, Pennsylvania.

Travelling time : 15 days

Travelling distance : 15,070 km

Düsseldorf

A postcard from Heinrich in Düsseldorf, the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.

Travelling time : 7 days

Travelling distance : 10,072 km

Silves, Algarve

A town with castles, cathedral and medieval bridge called Silves.

Artistic

The sender, Khaybullina from Tjumen drew this card by herself. Impressive!

Travelling time : 29 days

Travelling distance : 6,788 km

North Sea

A postcard from Harlem, Amsterdam, sent by Ineke. Nice view of North Sea coast of Netherlands.

Travelling time : 15 days

Travelling distance : 10,207 km

Black Bear Cubs

Received today from Nikki, Calgary.

These adorable black bear cubs will grow to be big burly inhabitants of Canada's dense bush and forest.

First card from Canada!

Travelling time : 18 days

Travelling distance : 13,125 km