Sep
29
2013
Monthly Archives: September 2013
Sep
27
2013
postcrossing #34
Here comes another postcard from Finland, featuring another famous and symbolic cartoon character from Finland – Moomin (姆明). The stamp was released in 2013. And it is showing Snufkin, a character in the Moomin series. He is the best friend of Moomintroll. Thank you very much! The stamp is from the same series as received before. Thank you very much!
Sep
27
2013
postcrossing #33
Here comes a postcard from Finland! The postcard, the stamp, and also the priority label are all featuring a very popular and successful game from Finland, Angry Birds. The Angry Birds stamp was released in September, and it is the first official Angry Birds stamp in the world. Thank you!
Sep
26
2013
postcrossing #32
Here comes my first postcard from Hungary! The building shown on the postcard is the Hungarian Parliament Building. It is one of the oldest Legislative building in Europe. It is the landmark of Budapest and also of the whole Hungary. Construction was started in 1885 and the building was inaugurated on the 1000th anniversary of the country in 1896, and completed in 1904. The building has 691 rooms, and it is 268 metres long and the dome 96 metres high. The other photo shows the Danube (多瑙河). It is 2857 km long, the longest river in the European Union. It passes through 10 European countries.
The dark stamp was released in 2013, from the series featuring different kinds of animals in Hungary. It shows a stoat (白鼬).
The yellow one was released in 2012, from a series of protected birds of prey in Hungary. This stamp shows The Eastern Imperial Eagle (白肩雕) (Aquila heliaca) . There are only about 70 to 80 pairs of such birds in Hungary.
The last stamp was released in 1999, showing that Hungary joined the NATO in that year.
Sep
26
2013
postcrossing #31
This is a really beautiful and cute postcard from Lithuania. I love the illustration very much. The stamp was released in 2013, quit new one as it was released in September. This stamp shows a kind of bird called the Tawny Pipit (Anthus campestris).
Sep
26
2013
postcrossing #30
A postcard from the Netherlands showing a sea of yellow tulips! Tulip is the national flower of the Netherlands. Tulip has a great association with tulip. According to wikipedia, this country produces as many as 3 billion bulbs annually. And the official year that tulip introduced to this country is 1594.
The stamp about windmill has been introduced before. And the other stamp was released in 2012, from the series called “Netherlands in the Atlas “. There are ten stamps from the series. And a whole picture of the Netherlands’ map would be seen if we place all stamps together. The words from next to the stamps briefly says:
since the 80’s , planning is a constant theme in the atlas, with pen subdivided as urban networks, spatial structure as main parts, also the Green Heart (The Groene Hart – English: Green Heart is a relatively thinly populated area in the Dutch Randstad. ) is mapped
The air mail sticker is so beautiful! Thanks Barbara from the Netherlands!
Sep
26
2013
postcrossing #29
A postcard from the Great Britain. I guess you already know what this postcard is about when you see the picture!
Let me talk more about the stamp then. Apart from the classical British definitive stamp, showing the head of Queen Elizabeth II, the other stamp was released in 2013. It is one of stamps of the series, showing different portraits of Queen Elizabeth II. The stamps were released in order to celebrate the 60th anniversary of her coronation.
Sep
23
2013
Protected: 一舊舊
Sep
20
2013
Postcard from friends #20
Yang Ming Shan Natinoal Park from Taipei, Taiwan.
Sep
20
2013
Postcard from friends #19
National Theater in Taipei, Taiwan. The building was completed in 1987, and it is next to the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. With the National Concert Hall, they are two of the first major modern performing arts facilities to be established in Asia. The building recalls traditional elements of Chinese palace architecture, especially the buildings at the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.