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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A postcard from Russia! The theme of the postcard is the 22nd Winter Olympic Games. The event will be held from 6 to 23 February 2014, in Sochi, Russia. Sochi was elected as the city to hold the games in 2007. And the stamp shows one of the mascots of the Olympic Games. It is actually a polar bear. The other two mascots are a hare and a leopard. Some news says that the three mascots were elected via a popular public vote through phones and the result was announced on a TV show. The stamp was released in 2013 and it was released as to celebrate the coming of new year 2014.
A postcard from Belarus. This postcard shows the Corpus Christi Church. The building was built in 1593. And the stamp was a definitive stamp of Belarus and was released in 2012. It is the 13th definitive series of Belarus. The theme of the definitive stamp is Belarusian ornament.
A postcard from Germany! The postcard shows the main railway station in Hannover, an important industrial and international trade fair city in Germany. Different important exhibitions, like the largest IT and telecommunication exhibition CeBIT would be held in this city every year. Even in 2000, the World Expo was held in this city.
The stamp features a Christmas tree. Merry Christmas to everyone =]
Here is a postcard from the USA. This card shows the Anna Ruby Falls, which is located in Georgia. There is a National Recreation Trail (a designation given to existing trails that contribute to health, conservation, and recreation goals in the United States) near the waterfall area. The waterfall is actually a combination of 2 waterfalls from two separate streams.
Here are the stamps from the postcard. The first stamp was released in 1950, in order to honor the railroad engineers of the country. The man on the stamp is called Casey Jones. His dramatic death, trying to stop his train and save lives, made him a hero.
The second stamp was released in 1980. At that year, the Winter Olympic Games was held in Lake Placid in the USA. The last two stamps were all released in 2013, and they were from the series New England Coastal Lighthouses.