Taiwan

 

Received from: Taiwan
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2013
Distance: 8542 km
Time of travelling: 11 days

The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees, with most of the varieties not being mutually intelligible. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the world's population, or over one billion people, speaks some variety of Chinese as their native language. Internal divisions of Chinese are usually perceived by their native speakers as dialects of a single Chinese language, rather than separate languages, although this identification is considered inappropriate by some linguists and sinologists.

Taiwan

Received from: Taiwan
Category: Europe-Asia tag
Date: January 2013

Prague

From: Czech Republic
Category: My collection
Date: February 2013

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has become one of the world's most popular tourist destinations. It is the sixth-most-visited European city after London, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Berlin. Prague suffered considerably less damage during World War II than some other major cities in the region, allowing most of its historic architecture to stay true to form. It contains one of the world's most pristine and varied collections of architecture, from Romanesque, to Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Gothic, Art Nouveau,Cubist, Neo-Classical and ultra-modern.

Tyumen

 Received from: Russia
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2013
Distance: 2865 km
Time of travelling: 13 days

The building of Government of  Tyumen Oblast.

Tyumen Oblast  is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Tyumen. The oblast has administrative jurisdiction over two autonomous okrugs—Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Tyumen is the largest city, with over half a million inhabitants. As of 2006, it is by far the richest federal subject of Russia, with an average GDP per capita several times the national average. Population: 3,395,755 (2010 Census).

Washington

 Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2013
Distance: 8374 km
Time of travelling: 12 days

Washington   is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States located north of Oregon, west of Idaho and south of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889.

Athens

 Received from: Greece
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2013
Distance: 1596 km
Time of travelling: 13 days

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent. Today a cosmopolitan metropolis, modern Athens is central to economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in Greece. In 2008, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power and the 25th most expensive in a UBS study.

Hannover

 Received from: Germany
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2013
Distance: 737 km
Time of travelling: 5 days

Hannover on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the Elector of Hanover). At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the Electorate was enlarged to become the capital of the Kingdom of Hanover.

The Netherlands

 Received from: the Netherlands
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2013
Distance: 1079 km
Time of travelling: 8 days

Luleå

 Received from: Sweden
Category: private swap
Date: February 2013

Luleå is a city on the coast of northern Sweden with 46,607 inhabitants (as of 2010). It is the seat of Luleå Municipality and the capital of Norrbotten County.Luleå was already an important harbour in the 13th to 15th Centuries.
The town's Royal charter was granted in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. The original town was situated where Gammelstad (Old Town) is situated today. The town had to be moved in 1649 to the current site, due to the post-glacial rebound that had made the bay too shallow for ships to enter.
The Gammelstad Church Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Pastavy

 Received from: Belarus

Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2013
Distance: 686 km
Time of travelling: 13 days

 

Pastavy is a city in the Vitsebsk Voblast of Belarus, an administrative center of the Pastavy district. Pastavy has several historic buildings including 18th century houses and 19th century church (St. Anthony of Padua).  In 2009, Pastavy celebrated its 600th anniversary.

Muromtsev Castle

Received from: Russia

Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2013
Distance: 1272 km
Time of travelling: 17 days

Louisiana

Received from: the USA

Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2013
Distance: 8784 km
Time of travelling: 14 days

 

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Louisiana is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties. The largest parish by population is East Baton Rouge Parish, and the largest by land area is Cameron Parish.

Moscow

Received from: Russia
Category: Your hometown tag
Date: January 2013

The Red Square is a city square in Moscow, Russia. The square separates the Kremlin, the former royal citadel and currently the official residence of the President of Russia, from a historic merchant quarter known as Kitai-gorod. The Red Square is often considered the central square of Moscow and all of Russia, because Moscow's major streets—which connect to Russia's major highways—originate from the square.