Jan
22
2014
postcrossing #67
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Jan
22
2014
postcrossing #66
A postcard from Germany! This postcard shows Schloss Charlottenburg. It is the largest palace in Berlin. It was originally built in 17th century and was expanded in the 18th century. It was reconstructed after the second world war due to great damage.
Jan
22
2014
postcrossing #65
A postcard from Ukraine! It shows a really lovely and beautiful scene of sea of clouds, with hills and red leaves trees!
Here comes the stamps of Ukraine. The plant stamps were released in 2012. The 40K. stamp shows Juglans regia 普通胡桃. The 20K. one shows Robinia pseudoacacia 刺槐. The 3.00 dollar one shows Tilia cordata. The last stamp was released in 2010. It shows a lighthouse in Ukraine.
Jan
22
2014
postcrossing #64
A postcard from Belgium! This postcard seems is showing a scene in Saint-Cado (Morbihan) in France. It is situated at the northwest part of France.
Here comes the stamp of Belgium. The stamp was released in 2011. It is from the series “Women and Team Sports”. And this stamp shows hockey.
Jan
08
2014
postcrossing #63
A late Christmas postcard from Portugal. It takes more than a month to come to Hong Kong.
The first stamp was issued in 2012, from the series Traditional Portuguese Festivities. I guess the festival is called “Festas Populares”. The second stamp was released in 2012, and the theme of the stamp is Christmas.
Jan
08
2014
postcrossing #62
A postcard with beautiful painting from Poland. The name of the work is called Palace of culture with baloons (I guess the painter wants to call it balloon instead of baloons?)by Grzegorz Chudy.
The stamp was released in 1996. It is from the series : Signs of the Zodiac. This one shows Capricorn, which means wild goat.
Jan
08
2014
postcrossing #61
A postcard received from a rare country, Moldova, which is near Ukraine at the Eastern Europe. The postcard shows the National Museum of Archeology and History of Moldova. The museum is situated at the capital of the country. The first stamp was released in 2012. It is about a monument called Zero Kilometre. The second stamp was released in 2004, from the series Ancient Adornments.
Jan
08
2014
Postcrossing #60
A lovely postcard from Taiwan! The postcard shows Chinese Crested Tern 黑嘴端鳳頭燕鷗. It is a critically endangered species, and previously thought extinct. It is estimated that now there are around 50 birds of this kind in the world now. One of the living area of this kind of bird is Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
The stamp chop is really beautiful and therefore I show it here also. It shows the Songshan Airport of Taipei.
Jan
08
2014
Postcrossing #59
A very nice postcard received from Russia, with beautiful and tranquil painting of a nature scenery! The stamp was released in 2012 and is related to Sochi Winter Olympic Games in 2014. This stamp shows a railway station in Sochi. It was built in 1952 by an architect A.N. Dushkin. The clock tower of the railway station is 55 meters high.