Madison County

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: September 2012
Distance: 7865 km
Time of travelling: 9 days

Madison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 15,679 in the 2010 census, an increase from 14,019 in the 2000 census, and it is one of the five counties that make up the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county seat is Winterset. Madison County is famous for being the county where John Wayne was born, and for a number of covered bridges. These bridges were featured in the 1992 book and 1995 movie The Bridges of Madison County.

Paris

Received from: France
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: September 2012
Distance: 1740 km
Time of travelling: 5 days

Lagoa da Conceição

Received from: Brazil
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: August 2012
Distance: 11180 km
Time of travelling: 24 days

Lagoa da Conceição is a district located next to a large lagoon of the same name near the center of Florianópolis, capital city of the state of Santa Catarina, located in the south of Brazil. The area has a small town center with a medical clinic, post office, pharmacies, supermarkets, boutique stores and specialty shops. The town gets particularly crowded during the Brazilian summer vacation months of January and February. The Lagoa da Conceição district also includes some of the island's best beaches, including Praia Mole beach and Joaquina beach, both of which have hosted major international professional surf tour events.

Finland

Received from: Finland
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: September 2012
Distance: 1606 km
Time of travelling: 9 days

Anping Old Fort

Received from: Taiwan
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: August 2012
Distance: 8585 km
Time of travelling: 19 days

Fort Zeelandia was a fortress built over ten years from 1624–1634 by the Dutch Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, in the town of Anping (Tainan) on the island of Formosa, present day Taiwan, during their 38-year rule over the western part of it. Although the site has been previously named Orange City, Anping City, and Tayoan City, the current name of the site in Chinese is Anping Fort.

Ustka

Received from: Poland
Category: from a friend
Date: August 2012

Ustka is a town in the Middle Pomerania region of northwestern Poland with 17,100 inhabitants (2001). It is also part of Słupsk County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999, and was previously in Słupsk Voivodeship (1975–1998).

Karkonosze

Received from: Poland
Category: from family
Date: July 2012

Brought from mountains by my parents, with all the stamps like that: