Sankt-Peterburg

Received from: Russia
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 1082 km
Time of travelling: 15 days

The Russian card presenting oil painting on canvas from the Hermitage museum. Winter of Wassily Kandinsky.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, and art theorist. He is credited with painting of the first purely abstract works.

Wiesbaden

Received from: Germany
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 1029 km
Time of travelling: 3 days

Los Angeles

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 9809 km
Time of travelling: 10 days

Dormagen am Rhein

Received from: Germany
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 1098 km
Time of travelling: 7 days

Beautiful German stamp presenting the cathedral in Cologne.

Dormagen is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss. City is situated between Düsseldorf - Cologne - Mönchengladbach on the western bank of the river Rhine.

Horst

received from the Netherlands (via Postcrossing)

(July 2011)

Horst is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas. Although the municipality is named after the village, Horst itself is not called "aan de Maas", because it does not lie on the River Meuse (in Dutch called Maas).

Moomin :)

Received from: Finland
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 1005 km
Time of travelling: 6 days

Very funny postcard: the Groke from Moomin, 'cause it's necessary to have a card presenting some character from these series - according to the sender :).

Plus another one Finnish stamp - round shaped. I like this kind of stickers-stamps, especially that in Poland they don't exist. :)

Vienna

Received from: Austria
Category: from a friend
Date: July 2011

Poland

From: Poland
Category: My collection
Date: July 2011

USSR

Received from: Russia
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 1129 km
Time of travelling: 62 days

One of the most interesting cards I have ever received - the symbol of the USSR. The card is very special for the sender, so is it for me. I love it!

Newport Beach

Received from: Australia
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 15478 km
Time of travelling: 7 days

Single view postcard presenting Newport Beach, Sydney, Australia.
With stamps showing Australian coast :). Additionally very long message that I really like.

Flowers ;)

Received from: Germany
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 1131 km
Time of travelling: 9 days

Sneek

received from the Netherlands (via Postcrossing)

(July 2011)

England

Card from: UK
Category: my collection
Date: March 2002

Pieniny

Card from: Poland
Category: my collection

Szczawnica

Card from: Poland
Category: my collection

Trakai

Received from: Lithuania
Category: from family

Krzemionki

Card from: Poland
Category: my collection

Poznań

From: Poland
Category: from family

Pszczela Wola

Received from: Poland
Category: from my brother

Istanbul

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

Very nice surprise from Turkey, another thank you card sent 2 months after the first one :).

Istanbul (historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople) is the largest city of Turkey. According to the address-based birth recording system of the Turkish Statistical Institute, the metropolitan municipality (province) of the city had a population of 13.26 million as of 2010, which is 17.98% of Turkey's population. The last census data from 2000 puts its proper population at 8.8 million. Istanbul is a megacity, as well as the cultural, economic, and financial centre of Turkey. It is located on the Bosphorus Strait and encompasses the natural harbour known as the Golden Horn, in the northwest of the country. It extends both on the European (Thrace) and on the Asian (Anatolia) sides of the Bosphorus, and is thereby the only metropolis in the world that is situated on two continents.

Mir

Received from: Belarus
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 245 km
Time of travelling: 12 days

Beautiful castle at sunset plus stamps with flowers and animals :).

Following Wikipedia, Mir is an urban settlement in Kareličy (Карэлічы) raion, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus (53°27′N 26°28′E) on the banks of Miranka River, about 85 kilometers southwest of the national capital, Minsk.

Joplin

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 8308 km
Time of travelling: 24 days

Vilnius

Received from: Lithuania
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 391 km
Time of travelling: 12 days

Very beautiful postcard from the capital of Lithuania, with an interesting stamp :).

Shortly, from Wikipedia, Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 (850,324 together with Vilnius County) as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County.

Madrid

Received from: Spain
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 2311 km
Time of travelling: 15 days

well, I have no idea what and who these stamps present, but I'm completely in love in this postcard! :)

Following Wikipedia, Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.4 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the third largest in the European Union after London and Paris.