Postcards from around the World # 14 - Austria II

Another postcard from Austria - not one from a skiing trip like the last one, but from a hiking trip instead.

My mother went on a week-long hiking trip, crossing the Alps from Austria to Italy, and sent me this postcard from in between when staying a night at the Hanauer Hütte. They had had pouring rain that day and heat on the day before.

Are you a hiker? I'm not sure I could manage a trip like this... I do like to hike, but I also like to have days for resting in between :)

The stamp was the same stamp that was also used on the other postcard from Austria, but the postage mark is a city name and not an old boring "letter center" and the Hütte stamped the postcard as well :)

Alles Liebe!
Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 13 - Australia

Remember when I said we couldn't go skiing with my boyfriends family this year because we had our own trip booked and planned? Instead of standing on a mountain in Austria, we decided to go snorkelling in Australia :) Can't believe this is already four months ago....

We have the habit of sending ourselves a postcard from when we are travelling - but it's always a surprise to one of us :) This time my boyfriend told me not to worry about "our" postcard and I was very happy to find this in my mailbox when we got back.

We spent two weeks in Coral Bay in Western Australia and loved it (duh, otherwise we wouldn't have spent two weeks there....). We didn't get to see a whale shark, but we did get to see turtles - so great!

The stamp is very cute in my opinion :) My boyfriend even saw one of those when we were in Victoria! I opted out of that hike though, so I didn't get to see it. But since we saw soooo many other animals, I'm not too sad. Have you seen the things that are depicted on the stamps you use to send mail?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 12 - Costa Rica

Maybe you can remember that we went to Costa Rica last year? Well, my older brother got inspired and this year he and his girlfriend went there as well for a few weeks!

We met beforehand to talk about what to see and where to go and gave them our guidebook, look at pictures and just generally talk about travelling.

This, however, prompted my brother to keep his postcard very short - just saying "Costa Rica is great! Well, you know the rest ;-)"
I still loved the postcard though and thought it to be funny :)

They didn't find real stamps, so they used this mailing label - can you see the two different dates? They sent the postcard in early March, which is what the label says, and it got stamped again in mid-April - more than a month later! I wonder what the did with the postcard in the meantime...

Alles Liebe,

Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 11 - Malaysia

This postcard arrived today in my mailbox as part of a swap-bot-swap I took part in. It was sent from Ipoh in Malaysia on a very hot day apparently - 37°C and sunshine!

The postcard shows the ancient way of freshly caught fish being transported to the market in Kuala Terengganu - I love that in the photo you can see how it's still early in the morning and you could just imagine the fisherman coming back from their trip to the sea a few minutes earlier and now the fish is being rushed to the market where people will soon buy it to prepare their meals... Nowadays, the sender told me, fishes are mostly transported via trucks.

These are the stamps the sender used - I love stamps with animals, so the bird one is just perfect and the other one is very pretty too :)

Alles Liebe!
Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 10 - Austria

From looking at this postcard, you will obviously know that it was received a while back... July is not really the time to send a postcard depicting a "Winter Paradise".

My boyfriends family goes skiing / snowboarding each year, but this year we couldn't go with them, as we were travelling ourselves during that time. So they opted to send us a postcard instead.

After reading the postcard we figured it was the right choice - they said that yes, the sky was as blue as in the photos, but that there was very little snow. The bits that were left on the slopes was either muddy or iced - so not really that enjoyable. Hopefully next year we'll manage to go with them and hopefully we'll have better snow then :) Do you enjoy skiing?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 9 - France

I am a bit jealous of all the trips the aunt and uncle of my boyfriend take - this postcard is from their most recent one, when they went to Corsica, a french Island in the Mediterranean Sea for a few days. Looking at this postcard makes me want to take a trip to the ocean immediately.

The stamps is one of the classic France-stamps.

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 8 - The Netherlands

I got this card back in March from my little brother (who lives in the Netherlands) and my father (who went to visit him). They took a daytrip to Amsterdam and thought of me and my love for postcards - I'm a lucky girl :)

I love how you can see bikes on the postcard...

as well as on the stamp :)

The Netherlands sure are a bicylce-country! Quick story about that - in May my brother parked his bike somewhere where he wasn't supposed to park it - and they towed his bike! Just like other countries would tow your car. He had to pay a fee to be allowed to collect his bike :) Have you ever had your bike (or car) towed?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 7 - India

Yesterday I received this lovely postcard from India. It depicts the Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, also called the "Palace of the Wind". It was built in 1799 for women in the royal family, so that they could see the ceremonial processions on the street, but were in turn not visible to anybody while sitting behind the small windows. The building is five storeys high and built in pink sandstone. There are literally hundreds of screened windows and small balconies.

 I have never seen a building like this before (have you?) and loved learning about it!

The stamp shows J.R.D. Tata, the first licensed pilot of India and also founder of the first commercial airline in India.

Thanks Ankita for sending me this postcard!

Postcards from around the World # 6 - Czech Republic

Just a quick update with another postcard I got in October - my mother went to Prague for a weekend and remembered to send me a postcard :)

I haven't been yet which is a shame, because it is said to be a very beautiful (yet touristy of course) city, but who knows, maybe I'll get a chance to visit the city and country in the next year. It's an odd feeling to know that there are still a few neighbouring countries of Germany which I haven't seen.

I also loved the stamp and the clear postage mark!

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 5 - Greece

Today I got a postcard from a close friend - the lucky girl spent a few days in Greece!

It has been almost ten years since I have been in Greece (wait, maybe even longer!) and I have to admit, I was a bit jealous when I heard about her plans - but I love that she got to go on a holiday, she deserves it! She did enjoy the greek sun, the beach, the ocean - they also went to see Athen and Patras though!

I love the stereotypical white and blue houses of Greece, I love the colour combination.

The stamp is fantastic as well!

This card made me want to go on holidays SO bad! Well, next year there's another chance for some travels...

Where will your next journey take you?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 4 - Ireland

Yet another postcard I got from a family member - though a more distant one this time! My cousin spent about a month in Ireland this summer, at first travelling with a friend, then travelling solo, later I think she worked a bit as well and she just came back a few days ago. Lucky her! Apparently she had loads of fun and a lot of stuff to do - she told me she went to sit in the garden of a monastery to write postcards, because she didn't have a quiet minute to do so beforehand.

Have you ever been to Ireland?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 3 - Cape Verde

Do you want to hear about yet another immediate family member who never forgets to send a postcard when on a trip?

My older brother and his girlfriend went to Boa Vista for two weeks this summer and sent me this postcard, which took about five to six weeks to get here! Boa Vista is one of the islands of Cape Verde, located in the central Atlantic Ocean, a few hundred kilometers off the coast of western Africa. He tells that the landscape seems like that of a desert, with lots of sand and dunes. Quite warm as well. 

My brother knows that I collect stamps, so he bought an extra stamp to bring it home for me as a small souvenir :)

Have you ever been to an island country like the one of Cape Verde?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 2 - Austria

Last week I talked about my mother sending me things in the mail - I have to be fair here, my father does so as well! He went to Austria in the end of August and knows me well enough to remember to send me a postcard whenever he's on a trip. He also sends me a small package every month or so - usually with a small book, sometimes a scarf - I guess you really can say that my parents are great in sending mail every now and then!

Anyway, he was in Salzburg and went to the opera at night - which seems to be a thing in Austria. The Mirabellgarten is the park of the Palace Mirabell, which was built in 1606 by Prince-Archbishop for his mistress. He also managed to elevate her and her (their?) 15 children to hereditary peerage. The Palace as well as the gardens are part of the UNESCO world heritage of the historic centre of Salzburg.

Do you keep in touch with your family through the mail?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Postcards from around the World # 1 - Denmark

Recently I was rummaging around in a box of old trinkets looking for something that had to be in there - I came across old letters, photos, pressed flowers, tickets and also a few postcards.
I am quite happy to say that I can always count on my mother to send me something in the mail - be it a quick postcard or a care package.
As some of you know, I spent quite some time abroad during my youth - and I happened to come across a postcard I got while in Chile. My mother wrote a message on maybe half of the postcard, the rest is filled with signatures from my parents, two sets of aunts and uncles, my grandparents as well as five cousins, three of whom were younger than 7 I believe - which caused quite big signatures as you can imagine. I love that I have a signed postcard of all of them!
They were celebrating a birthday in Denmark, on an island where I spent some summers of my childhood as well. Aren't postcards a great way to bring back memories?

A family postcard

I love these stamps!

Do you still have postcards which date a few years back? And how long to you plan to keep them for?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi