Hoorn

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Category: Klub Polki na Obczyźnie
Date: July 2017

Hoorn is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is located on the Markermeer, 35 kilometres north of Amsterdam, and acquired city rights in 1357. Hoorn had a population of 71,888 in 2017. The area of the municipality is 53.25 km2 of which 33.00 km2  consists of water, mainly the Markermeer. The municipality consists of the following villages and/or districts: Blokker, Hoorn, Zwaag, and parts of Bangert and De Hulk.

Amsterdam

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: December 2016
Distance: 1083 km
Time of travelling: 3 days

Greetings from... Netherlands

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Category: swap
Date: May 2016

Utrecht

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2016
Distance: 1139 km
Time of travelling: 7 days

Utrecht  is the capital and most populous city in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation and is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands with a population of 330,772 in 2014.

Netherlands

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Category: Klub Polki na Obczyźnie
Date: August 2015

The Netherlands

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2015
Distance: 1083 km
Time of travelling: 9 days

Sittard

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: October 2014
Distance: 1203 km
Time of travelling: 3 days

Sittard is a city in the European country Netherlands. There it is situated in the southernmost province of Limburg. The town is part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen and has some 48,400 inhabitants (including those of neighbouring villages Munstergeleen, Limbricht, Einighausen and Guttecoven).

Netherlands

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: October 2014
Distance: 1095 km
Time of travelling: 5 days

and the card arrived in the hand-made envelope of the map :)

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 ;).

Amsterdam

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: April 2014
Distance: 1125 km
Time of travelling: 5 days

Amsterdam

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: April 2014
Distance: 1000 km
Time of travelling: 5 days

Use of the Skinny Bridge has been limited to pedestrians and cyclists since 2003. It is however opened many times a day in order to let through river traffic. The boats used for sightseeing tours are low enough to pass underneath the bridge when closed. The bridge is decorated with 1200 light bulbs that are turned on in the evening.

The Netherlands

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: April 2013
Distance: 1097 km
Time of travelling: 4 days

Texel

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Category: Tag within Europe
Date: May 2013

Texel includes the seven villages De Cocksdorp, De Koog, De Waal, Den Burg, Den Hoorn, Oosterend, and Oudeschild, and the small townships of Bargen, De Nes, Dijkmanshuizen, Driehuizen, Harkebuurt, 't Horntje, Midden-Eierland, Molenbuurt, Nieuweschild, Noorderbuurt, Ongeren, Oost, Spang, Spijkdorp, Tienhoven, Westermient, Zevenhuizen, and Zuid-Eierland.
The municipality also includes the uninhabited sand bar of Noorderhaaks. The island of Texel, which received city rights in 1415, originally was made up of two islands, Texel proper to the south and Eierland to the northwest, which were connected by shoals. In the seventeenth century, the islands were poldered together. Today, Texel forms the largest natural barrier between the North Sea and the Wadden Sea.

North Brabant

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: May 2013
Distance: 1118 km
Time of travelling: 10 days

North Brabant (Dutch: Noord-Brabant), since 2001 Brabant is also unofficially used, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium's Antwerp and Limburg provinces in the south, the Meuse River (Maas) in the north, and Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.

Amsterdam

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: April 2013
Distance: 1120 km
Time of travelling: 15 days

The Rijksmuseum  (English: State Museum) is a Dutch national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Concertgebouw.

Amsterdam

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Category: from a friend
Date:  February 2013

The Netherlands

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

Eindhoven

 

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2013
Distance: 1076 km
Time of travelling: 6 days

 Eindhoven  is a municipality and a city located in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams. The Gender was dammed short of the city centre in the 1950s but the Dommel still runs through the city. The city had 217,192 inhabitants (February 2012) and 261,082 if adjacent Veldhoven is included, making it the fifth-largest city of the Netherlands and the largest of North Brabant.

Netherlands

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Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: December 2012
Distance: 1131 km
Time of travelling: 39 days