Warendorf

Received from: Germany
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: May 2011
Distance: 892 km
Time of travelling: 4 days

The German stamps presenting a tulip and one of the four elements - fire. Especially this second one is really nice.

USA

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: May 2011
Distance: 7273 km
Time of travelling: 6 days

American stamps ;)

Berlin

Received from: Germany
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: May 2011
Distance: 520 km
Time of travelling: 12 days

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany, it is the center of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has 4.4 million residents from over 190 nations. Located in the European Plains, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.

Tomaszów Mazowiecki

Received from: Poland
Category: from a friend
Date: May 2011

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When I wrote on my facebook the link to this blog and the information that I collect postcards, one of my friend promised to send me a card - because I'd already had postcard from her city of studies, I got this one, presenting her home town :)
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Tomaszów Mazowiecki is a town in central Poland with 67,159 inhabitants (2004). Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999), it was previously part of Piotrków Trybunalski Voivodeship (1975–1998). According to the 2002 survey, it occupies an area of 41.3 square kilometers.

The town is situated on the banks of three rivers—Pilica, Wolbórka and Czarna Bielina, near the Zalew Sulejowski reservoir and at the edge of the Puszcza Spalska wilderness area.

Finland

Received from: Finland
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: May 2011
Distance: 1136 km
Time of travelling: 3 days

Such a wonderful postcard with a cute stamp :).

I do really love it!

Amsterdam

received from the Netherlands (via Postcrossing)

(May 2011)

Dutch stamp... Maybe not as original as a postcard, but anyway... ;)

New Jersey

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: May 2011
Distance: 6941 km
Time of travelling: 7 days

Following Wikipedia, New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. As of the United States 2010 Census, its population was 8,791,894. New Jersey lies mostly within the sprawling metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia and is the most densely populated state in the United States.

Kas

Received from: Turkey
Category: Private swap
Date: May 2011

I completely love both the postcard and the stamp. Still cannot decide which one more ;)

Kaş (pronounced 'Kash') is a small fishing, diving, yachting and tourist town, and a district of Antalya Province of Turkey, 168km west of the city of Antalya. As a tourist town it is relatively unspoiled.

Cherepovets

Received from: Russia
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: May 2011
Distance: 1302 km
Time of travelling: 20 days

Loviisa

Received from: Finland
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: May 2011
Distance: 967 km
Time of travelling: 3 days

Just the normal Finnish stamp with raspberries ;)

Loviisa, according to Wikipedia, is a municipality and town of 15,597 inhabitants (31 January 2011) on the southern coast of Finland. About 43 per cent of the population is Swedish-speaking.

Amazonia

Received from: Ecuador
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: May 2011
Distance: 10941 km
Time of travelling: 26 days

The stamp is presenting the train with the volcano Chimborazo in the background.
Somehow I'm completely fascinated with everything connected with South America :)
The Amazon Rainforest, also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), of which five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, and with minor amounts in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and France (French Guiana)

Kraków

From: Poland
Category: My collection
Date: May 2011
The Wawel Dragon, also known as the Dragon of Wawel Hill, is a famous dragon in Polish folklore. He laired in a cave at the foot of Wawel Hill on the bank of the Vistula River. Wawel Hill is in Kraków, which was then the capital of Poland. In some stories the dragon lived before the founding of the city, when the area was inhabited by farmers.

Jiang Xi

Received from: China

Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: May 2011
Distance: 6953 km
Time of travelling: 13 days

Maybe these kinds of stamps are popular in this region, but here, in eastern Europe they seem to be something very interesting. I love it! :)

And Jiangxi is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south. (Wikipedia)