Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Kaliningrad

Received from: Russia
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: April 2014
Distance: 274 km
Time of travelling: 14 days

Kaliningrad is a seaport city and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. The territory borders on NATO and European Union members Poland and Lithuania, and is geographically separated from the rest of Russia.

Monday, July 14, 2014

The Netherlands

Received from: the Netherlands
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: April 2014
Distance: 1033 km
Time of travelling: 8 days
As a sender of this postcard wrote: it is some city in the Netherlands ;).


Sunday, July 13, 2014

Avignon

Received from: France
Category: from a friend
Date: June 2014

Avignon is a French commune in southeastern France in the department of the Vaucluse bordered by the left bank of the Rhône river. Of the 90,194 inhabitants of the city (as of 2011), about 12,000 live in the ancient town centre surrounded by its medieval ramparts.

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Atlanta

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: April 2014
Distance: 8062 km
Time of travelling: 13 days

Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2013 population of 447,841. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,522,942 people and the ninth largest metropolitan area in the United States. Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Sofia

Received from: Bulgaria
Category: from a friend
Date: May 2014

 Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. Sofia is located at the foot of Mount Vitosha in the western part of the country. It occupies a strategic position at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula. Sofia's history spans 2,400 years. Its ancient name Serdica derives from the local Celtic tribe of the Serdi who established the town in the 5th century BC. It remained a relatively small settlement until 1879, when it was declared the capital of Bulgaria.

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Tiraspol

Received from: Transnistria
Category: from a friend
Date: May 2014

The Nativity Church, also known as the Cathedral of the Birth of Christ, is the largest and newest church in Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria. It is a Russian Orthodox Church completed in 1999 to serve as the Mother Church of the Orthodox Christian Diocese of Tiraspol.

Celebrations marking the completion of the cathedral included, among other things, the issuing of a series of postage stamps featuring the church (see Transnistrian stamps issued for Christmas 1999). In 2001, the cathedral's image was displayed on the principal coins struck for a commemorative series of gold and silver currency featuring Orthodox Temples of Transnistria.

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Finland

Received from: Finland
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: April 2014
Distance: 993 km
Time of travelling: 12 days