I combined monuments and religious sites and temples into one album, because often they are linked together. An old temple from before is now a monument or a monument represents a hero or saint. They are rare without each other, so I thought it was better to be together and the album will be richer.
The postcards brought me different religions, beliefs, customs that I had never heard before.
Well, you think you could just turn around the postcard and read it. That is possible when is written in the language well known to you, but writing in Indonesian requires great signature recognition skill and (luckily) google translate😂. It…
Genesio stamped so many stickers and stamps and only a few words to describe the postcard. But looking at them and at the postcard, words are needless to say anyway. It took me seconds from putting the postcard down and…
Well, its hard when the sender is not signed, so I can share appropriately their feelings, in this case from his/her trip in Tikal. Its says that they celebrated last New year`s eve there, which is 2013 🙂 I think…
Ana is my dear friend from Macedonia, tend to travel a lot. And she knows how to make my day from the places she is visiting. We spent a great evening in Bitola, a few years back, with never-ending stories…
Filiz is from Turkey but she travels a lot to northern Cyprus. This lovely postcard from Bellapais Abbey came along with another one, which you will read in another post. Both of them looks attractive that will make you want…
This very very beautiful meadowy and flowerish postcard shows Kokubunji Temple in Okayama, or as Hiroshi wrote, Five storied pagoda and astragalus fields. Do you know what is pagoda? Or astragalus? Additional information –Pagoda – Well the temple on the…
Santiago De Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. Robert has written in Spanish, some of which i understand but the rest i have to search it.The city Santiago De Compostela is built around…
I may say this a lot, but this postcard is one of my favorites too. It calms me somehow.Maybe because is from the temple in spring, the time of the year where everything is blooming and is starting again, where…
La Bretagne, France Warm greetings from Jean, who is from Lyon, but loves to spend the summer in Brittany (La Bretagne), because he loves nature and water. He adds that he does love too the mountains and the animals because…
Bucegi mountain, Romania Simona is very close friend of mine, believe it or not, we met through postcards and she has visited me 🤗 Yes Yes. Very nice person with rich travel experience. It is a pity that I have…