Kimi Raikkonen - New F1 Season

Well, this post was intended to sound waaaaay too much different....with a different tone...and composed in a different way...but as usual, its better when a man doesnt plan anything coz his plans never really turn out as he wanted them to...neither did mine...
The new F1 season had started and i was ready to make a nice, elaborate, full of facts post today...but something went wron on the way...even though i dont have a postcard from the Albert Park in Melbourne, where the race was held today, i really wanted to commemorate it and include some symbolic contribution from my side. But i guess that will have to wait for some better times...

I sensed it all at the qualifications, that the Ferrari's are struggling (the McLaren;s were even worse) and from the final outcome of the situation, i felt it was gonna be a weird race. I didnt really have a great desire to get up early and watch it, since i already went to sleep late, and Raikkonen was starting 7th...and my eyes were literary closing...and i admit i slept thru the majority of the race...i noticed several crashes, a Safety Car and the next thing i remember, Button is celebrating...Raikkonen is not even on the list...Why? the guy had crashed into a  wall! Geez! Why did i at all get up at 7:30 am?!!
To make matters worse, after that i slept until 3pm! Awful! Disastrous! And just today we had had to have a time change and go ahead one hour! And on top of that, i nstead of having a lazy Sunday (coz i just didnt feel capable for anything) turns out i have work to do, which im not supposed to do it in the first place, but when you have to deal with dishonest and complicated people, thats what you end up with...of course i barely did anything and i can freely proclaim this day as one of the days when i had felt i had totally wasted it! From start till end!
Thank godness Nadal won hos match several hours before that....i couldnt have coped with two losses :)
And thank god the upcoming race is at 11am....even if a disaster happens, at least i will not regret waking up early for nothing...
And all I wanted was to just say that I want to see many many races where Raikkonen would be cheering as on this card! I guess i will have to wait for that a bit...
And last, but not least, i would like to thank Raquel for sending me my first ever Kimi Raikkonen postcard. It's self-printed, but its of an absolutely great quality! And the card is just great and im more than happy to own it!
And just one thing...if you happen to have postcards from the F1 circuits, please contact me...thank you in advance :)
Ok, lets get down to some work....

oh, just one more thing...i want to say that im glad that actually Button won, and Barichello took the second place...im especially glad for Rubens...that man had been struggling sooooo much in the past few years due to having an uncompetitive car...he really really deserved to be on the podium today. Same goes for Button. He hadnt scored so many points in two years as he scored today!

Vaduz Castle, Liechtenstein

The lazy postcard blogger is here...ta-da-aam! And yeah...she has been very lazy lately, thats obvious.
Im sorry for that, but ive just been feeling really tired lately, and thats all probably due to the fact that ive had a really rough week in general, i really hope that once its over, the new one would be better...there is always sunshine after the rain they say, so they better be right about it...and unlike last weekend, we are having a real spring sunshine here...its nice and warm, and ive tried to spend some nice time outside...and apart from the wind which caused me a headache eventually, it was nice for a change to have some sun...

And it wasnt a bad mail week either! Not my best probably, but definitely it has improved from the times i had been complaining about it :) Hopefully my next one will be a nice one as well....

I got this card on the great-mail-Friday-day when we had a snow storm here. It was a total, but more than a nice surprise...along with two other great cards in the envelope.
 Well, i chose this one, since i desperately need a variety here, and its been a really long long time since i have had Liechtenstein card, so this is a real breath of fresh air :)
I just wonder one thing, and if some of you out there have Liechtenstein cards as well...do ALL of them have the Vaduz castle, or are there exceptions?? I have 3 different Liechtenstein cards so far, including this one, and Vaduz is on absolutely all of them...i mean, i know its important since his majesty lives there and all, but this is getting a bit vain! Im sure Liecthenstein has MANY other things to show and to be proud of than the Vaduz castle.
yeah, im in the mood to complain :P

Curonian Spit, Lithuania

When i went to the post office yesterday, the man at the desk looked at me, and said 'Hi, long time no see!'...having in mind that i really hadnt been to THAT post office for months, i was more than surprised to see that he remembers me...obviously i have left an impression with the pile of mail i send, and obviously im the only one who does that, so im the talk of the town, or in this case, the post offices :)
Well, i can just add another post office, to the list of ones where im a familiar face :)

I really like this card! Such nice sand formations!
The Curonian Spit is a 98 km long, thin, curved sand-dune spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea.
According to Baltic mythology the Curonian Spit was formed by a strong girl, Neringa, who was playing on the seahore. This child also appears in other myths (in some of which she is shown as a young strong woman, similar to a female version of the Greek Heracles).
Right now, the Curonian Spit  is home to the highest moving (drifting) sand dunes in Europe. Their average height is 35 m, but some attain the height of 60 m.

And it has been added on the UNESCO whs list as well, so another UNESCO card in my collection! Yippie!

Budva, Montenegro

My dad brought me this card when he went to Budva. Im just trying to recall whether it was 2006 or 2007....it all weighs towards 2007, but i may be wrong...and actually, i just checked and its....2008! Either i have some wrong perception of time, or i dont know whats wrong with me...

Well, Budva may not be one of my favourite places to go to in summer...but as it looks on the pictures, i would really like to be there right now. Its not crowded, the beach on the top left picture is totally empty, and it feels as if thats what i need right now. To get away from everything and everyone for a couple of days and give my mind some rest...being alone, with just the sound of the sea and the waves...that feels sooo calming!
It doesnt have to be Budva, it can be just any nice place out there, as long as i can totally distract from current things for a bit...and recharge myself...and come back in a much much better mood....hopefully :)
My dad would be going to Belgrade...i wish i could go as well, but he is coming back tomorrow...and i would prefer to stay a couple of days...plus my obligations in general just dont let me.....ahh, maybe next time...maybe...
Well...its the Earth Hour today...and while writing today's update, i decided to give my support to it and turn off everything for one hour. I could survive without them....not that im gonna make an enormous overall contribution, but i just want to make some, and feel myself useful...and it would be could if people got more conscious about it, not just today, but throughout the year.
if 8:30 pm still hasnt reached your country, then think about it, and if you are not in urgent need of aplliances and all, then give your support as well!
Ill see you tomorros ;-)

Snæfellsnes, Iceland

Icealnd!!! My first ever scenic view from Iceland!!! The more i think about it, the more i have no idea what to write....not coz i have nothing to say, but coz there is too much i want to say...i mean, it is ICELAND!!! Do you know what that means for ME??

And i actually got this one totally unexpectedly from dear Ana. I guess i ramble too much around about how much i love this part of the world :) And i was just stunned when i found this one in my mailbox last Friday...oh yeah, the good mail day :)
I have no other scenic views from Iceland, (but i do have the flag :)) so i just cant stop looking at this one, analyzing it, admiring it..
This Icelandic card in particular shows "Views from the Snæfellsnes peninsula: Stapafell and the Snæfellsnesjökull glacier, archlike rock formations at Arnarstapi, the tiny harbour at Arnarstapi, Lóndrangar rocks, and an old style restaruant at Arnarstapi.
That restaurant is just sooo cool! At first i thought those were houses for living, and i was particularly interested in their roofs covered with grass...ive seen another card around, which shows a close-up of totally similar buildings like this, where  you can see only the roof and they are all covered in grass and seem as if they had also sunk into the earth...i love that image!
Well...if you ever want to make me happy....send me a card from Iceland or Norway, or Faroe Islands...or Shetland...or the Arctic Circle..or Alaska...or Arctic/Antarctica...or just anything with the similar nature/climate/scenery...you will really really nail it right on the spot :)

And Ana...a million thank you-s to you! :)

Vargem Grande do Sul, Brazil

I wonder exactly how many places in the world have the statue of Jesus Christ....I know that everyone has the right to have their own, but you know, when there is something original, and then its replicas start appearing, it feels as if there is no originality anymore and authencity is lost....

this statue here comes from Vargem Grande do Sul, in Brazil. which from what i could understand, is a municipality of Sao Paulo...but dont take me for granted, since as usual, all sites about Brazil are in Portuguese and thats not my strong side.

So, any additional info about this one...is MORE than appreciated :)
Obrigado!

Cheese Market, Holland

I got this card in the Netherlands to the rest of the world tag, and i must say i really really love it! Im a bit tricky on what i like and what i dont when it comes to cards that arent regular touristic cards, but this one is just great...and soo different from the rest of my Dutch cards...

If you wondered why i named this one as "Holland" and not "the Netherland", i think that a look on the card itself will clear it all up....and im not gonna go against something which is already clearly stated, regardless to what it refers to....argghh, this Holland/Netherlands thing is gonna drive me nuts one day :)
When i first looked at the card, i thought the kids were carrying grapefruits or citruses, or any of the kind...when i read on the back, turns out it was cheese...really embarassing from my side, but if you take a good look at those big yellow 'balls', they do look like as some of those fruits.
Well, what can i say...i love cheese! Esp the one which isnt very salty and feels smooth....i could eat that in large amounts!
And i really like the spontaneity of the card...more precisely, the second pair of children..the way that the second one takes a glimpse behind her...the way that the first one has made a facial expression, murmuring something...it all makes a great card, when you know that someone didnt set this children in order to get a shot for a card, but that it was just a spontaneous moment while they were walking...it really really turned out in a great image!
thanks Amber for this one! I totally totally love it!!

Australia

Hello all! You are just in time for another update and for another nice Postcard Friendship Friday hosted over at Marie's Blog...dont forget to have a stop by there :)

Im somewhat managing to have a grasp on how to do my posts when Friday comes...i just need to organize my cards/themes better...its nothing spectacular, in case you expect it to be so...but i just want to arrange it somehow regarding friends and friendship and stuff...i think i especially got inspired today after on a day of SNOW STORM..yeah, you read it right...we are having lots and lots of snow falling here, which is ridiculous....during the week it was nice and warm and sunny and today, one day before we need to walk into the sprin season, we are having lots of snow! But what i wanted to say, that even though the day has been awful when it comes to weather conditions, my mailbox had an extra treat, after a long while...lots of great mail, from so many dear people out there...and that just brightened me up, despite i felt so dreary on the inside....im really really thankful to them all...they all know who they are, and i dedicate this PPF to them :)

The card itself is called "A Warm G'Day" - From the Land Down Under, by Bruce, Sheila and the Endangered Species Gang.
You know, sometimes, i really think that true friends are a species in extinction....but my dear pals from all over the globe just prove me wrong! I wish my pals from where i live, proved me wrong as well somtimes....

Dalarna, Sweden

This card dates back from 1994 and is from a very dear girl of mine with whom i lost touch long time ago, Christina Dulley from Sweden...ive tried to find her, but unfortunately, no luck...i think that, all those last name changes when ladies get married, arent in my favour...

The card in particular shows one of the  Swedish counties, Dalarna. Ever since i received this card back then, i found it strange that houses are so far away from one other..i mean, in general, im used to places where people live near each other, that if i want to visit my neighbours, it wont take me more then a minute to get to them...on the card, it feels as if it takes rather long to visit a friend or a relative who actually lives near...i dont know...im just not used to seeing houses in an ihnabitted area, scattered around like that...though on the other hand its good, since you have some greater privacy, instead neighbours who dont know to mind their own business (i have nice neighbours though...i cant complain...but im sure they have noticed that i check my mailbox every 10 minutes, so i dont know what they think of that :))

ahhh Christina, where art thou?! :-(

Chervonohorod, Ukraine

This card is from another dear lady called Ksenia, who i wholeheartedly think deserves to have a space dedicated on PFF. She travels rather often, and she always remembers to surprise my mailbox from the places she goes to...and im extremely thankful coz of that!

This card shows Chervonohord, which is a small town in the Ternopil region in Ukraine.
Two defensive towers rise in the picturesque place in the tract of Chervone. There used to be a small town in the early Middle Ages. From the 14th century it became the princes Korijatowiczes' residence. In 1448 the town was given Magdeburg right. In 1672 it was ruined by thetroops of Sultan Mahomet IV. In 1820 Karol Ponicski built a palace (designed by Makiowski, the architect) from which just towers have left. (from the back of the card)

Thank you Ksenia for this card, and for every other single card you have enriched my collection with.

Happy PFF day to all of you...and dont forget to appreciate those small things your friends do for you...they can make you happy at an instant!
Till the next update...and till the next PFF...take care!

Šibenik, Croatia

Ive been feeling rather inspirationless these past two days...yet i feel 'obliged' to post something in here...i also have a bunch of things to do for work plus get some mail done and i feel as if its catching up with me and i cant meet the deadlines...plus i have had this awfully awful headache...and to be honest, i really have no idea why am i telling you all that...

I think ive never beeb to Šibenik, though at this point in life i cant exactly recall things which have happened over 20 years ago...ive been to a number of places in Croatia and Montenegro, and sometimes i just cant make a difference...should i be scared with how my memory works or is that pretty normal?  I could use some nice 500GB HD for my brain if possible...its a pity to lose some memories...
I like the architecture shown on this card (it has some Dalmatian character). And you can also see the cathedral of St. James...its at the very front of the card, so you cant miss it...
There are a number of famous people coming from Šibenik, but did you know that, that Goran Višnjić guy is also from here? That guy from ER...or that guy from Madonna's video, The Power of Goodbye?
Well...im not some TV addict, so i cant really give you many details, but knowing how much ER has been popular around the globe, im sure that at least half of you coming here, do know who i am talking about :)

ok ok, here he is, here he is :)

Goran 01     Goran 02    Goran 03

unfortunately, i couldnt get the Madonna video, since those Youtube guys have been censoring everything lately...but im sure you know it :)

Puerto Cortes, Honduras

Here is my second Honduras card, and if all goes well, a third one should be in my mailbox anytime soon :)

Puerto Cortes is Honduras's main sea port and it is considered the most important seaport in Central America.
the back of the card says: "Vista Nocturna del Puente Sobre la laguna De Alvarado, Puerto Cortes"
I guess it has to something with a night view...of the De Alvadaro laguna..
Unfortunately, i couldnt really come across any worthwhile information about it, without sounding like a travel agent's who wants to sell you something....

Village Life in Anatolia, Turkey

And before I rush back to work, here is my last card for today....

I got this one back in time, from this guy who went on holdiay in Turkey, and who brought me back some cards...and i recall, my reaction was...this is such a boring postcard...where are the sites??
But today, im more than thankful to him for bringing it to me, since it conributes to the variety, plus ive become to appreciate a various kind of postcards apart from the standard city views...
this one shows some village people in Anatolia...whose word derviation comes from Greek and means something like 'sunrise' or 'the land of the sunrise'.
It is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus o the northeast, the Aegan Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian  plateau to the east and southeast.

I was just wondering something...regarding Turkey and Russia...when i send mail there, i always use postage as if im sending it within Europe...coz ive never actually considered whether im sending to the European part of Turkey, or the Asian one...same goes with Russia...so i was wondering if the people at the post pay any attention to that or they just see the name of the country, and thats all that matters...coz im more than convinced that i had sent something in the Asian part of Turkey, with a normal stamp...and it had arrived...though i might be wrong...still, i was curious about it...

An adorable kitty

This card actually arrived from Russia...and i think for a long time i will clearly remember the day i received it...

RU-31077

If i had expected this card, i would have still melted when i received it, but definitely definitely not to the extent i did when i found this cutie in my mailbox totally unexpected....moreover, its an official card...the sender didnt state in the postcard why she chose to send me this one, but if we are to judge according to my profile, which says that i would love to receive cards with the cat which looks like mine, then its not hard to guess...but im really really moved that someone who accidentaly got my name, tried to fulfill my wishlist...I know that when i found it in the mailbox, my heart simply stopped, i got tears in my eyes, and just didnt know what to do or say...i felt like crying and screaming, and i could feel how something was squeezing inside me...
All the cards with a cat like mine are more than dear to me and i find them all cute and adorable...but the look in the eyes of this cute kitty just makes my heart melt each time i look at it...as if it feels guilty of something...or its eyes are just full of sadness...i dont know...but that look has just captured my heart...
And another thing...if im right, this is actually a self-printed card...with excellent quality...in general, im not into ad/free/hand-made/self-printed cards....but this so much breaks all the stereotypes im clinging to...its an absolutely great great great card!
I really want to thank the sender about it...i asked her to send her a thank-you card in return, coz i really didnt know any other way to express my gratitude...unfortunately, she never got back to me...

Route 66, USA

Well, by just throwing a glimpse at this card, i can feel your teeth cringing...oh no, not another Route 66 card...not Depeche Mode again =|
I dont know whether i would have ever developed such an interest in Route 66 cards if it wasnt for Depeche Mode actually...

You want to hear the new chapter of my going-to-the-DM-concert-story?!
Well, my cousin mailed me, telling me that the tickets had arrived! She even took a picture of them, so that i can see them and that my heart can be still and that i can sleep peacfully at night (yeah, she actually used those words :))
But you know...the paranoid me..until i get the tickets in my hands...no no..until i actually get inside the venue and the concert starts and i AM present..i will have bits and pieces of paranoia...thats just me...i cant help it...and its not that far away anymore...two months...time flies so fast...its scary..

Well...DM released a new single from their upcoming album..and its freaking GREAT...believe it or not, i had over 100 plays in a row on my playlist...in total, i have 350 something plays...i think its the song i had had most on repeat...its just catchy and addictive and the lyrics are, oh so Martin Gore...and oh so real...and i just love that disharmonious psychodelic sound....really emphasizes the 'wrong-ness'...

DM performing at the Berlin Echo Awards in February, when this song was actually introduced for the first time..a great powerful DM performance...



the lyrics in between:

Wrong x 4

I was born with the wrong sign in the wrong house
with the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road that led to
the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
Used the wrong method with the wrong technique

Wrong x 2

There’s something wrong with me Chemically
Something wrong with me Inherently
The wrong mix in the wrong genes
I reached the wrong ends by the wrong means
It was the wrong plan in the wrong hands
The wrong theory for the wrong man
The wrong lies, on the wrong prize
The wrong questions with the wrong replies

Wrong x2

I was marching to the wrong drum with the wrong scum
pissing out the wrong energy
Using all the wrong lines and the wrong signs
with the wrong intensity
I was on the wrong page of the wrong book
With the wrong rendition of the wrong hook
Made the wrong move, every wrong night
With the wrong tune played till it sounded right yeah

Wrong x2

Too long ... Wrong x2

Too Long

I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
Used the wrong method with the wrong technique

Wrong

and the official video....hopefully the youtube guys will have some mercy and wont remove these....at least for a while :)

Youghal, Ireland

A nice blueish Irish card....and as a coincidence, today is St. Patrick's Day as well....and i know you wont believe me, but i totally unconsciously chose to post this card today...i knew it was St. Patrick's and all...but when i was going thru cards and picked this Irish one, not at once the St.Patrick crossed my mind...it did, just now as i opened this post...hmmm, i dont know if i should freak out or just pay no attention to it :)

Youghal is one of the foremost seaside resorts of County Cork and is finely situated at the mouth of the Blackwater river, with a fine strand and every holiday amenity. It was occupied by the Danes, then the Normans, receiving its first charter from King John. The town was fortified with walls and towers, most of which still remain. Sir Walter Raleigh ws once Mayor of the town and his house Myrtle Grove can still be seen.
the sender of the card also included some facts, which i find worth noting down.
He says that his hometown is a very historical place and that it was surrounded by walls to keep them safe, and the only entrance was the clockgate (top centre picture). They also have 3 miles of beach which is beautiful. And he says that the Moby Dick film was also made there in 1956...

a really nice and full of stories card....hope you liked it as well...and the other cards too :) 

Väikejärv, Estonia

Another Friday...another busy weekend ahead...another Postcard Friendship Day...and another week that has been absolutely scarce on mail! This entire week, believe it or not, i received one postcard and one letter...for the whole week!
I really really hope that next week will be a fruitful one! Well, i said the same thing exactly last week as well...and look what happened  :| But i really think that its about time that the following one brings a fuller mailbox...i sent out a bunch of mail today...and i have some reminiscents that i couldnt manage to finish and will be sent out next week...but I send..therefore, i should receive...right? :) Wasnt that the motto? :)

Well, for Friendship Day...a lovely heart sent by my dear Katy....
I loved this card ever since i saw it in someone's album....i thought it was ultimately cool...i just wondered if this lake really existed or no...
Apparently it does exist, coz from what ive read, on google earth, it does appear heart-shaped from above.
The only problem i have is that i cant really find much information about it on the web...except that it is situated somewhere in South Estonia, in the Viljandi County..
I just wonder if its naturally heart-shaped, or a human touch had helped in it...either way, its a lovely lake and makes a cool postcard
And Katy was kind to provide me with a link so you can see the lake from above ...just zoom and click on 'satellite' and you will have a nice glimpse of it :) 

Ironically...regarding Friendship and PFF...lately due to a number of events, ive been wondering who my real friends are.....ive been feeling rather disappointed...it rather hurts...

Hong Kong

i love the Hong Kong postcards coz of their size..they are all big and over-sized and just look great!

And I love this night view of Central and Kowloon from the Peak.
Do you know that Hong Kong itself has 3 times more population than my own country??
i cant imagine something so densely populated...so many people, on such a small territory...well, i can even more hardly imagine Mexico City with its 20 or 30 million people...huh...
As for Kowloon....it is an urban area in Hong Kong made up of Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon....its name came from the nine dragons epresented by eight peaks and a Chinese emperor.

Paris, France

Metro maps always seem just sooo complicated! But the metro concept itself is actually more than easy...you just need time to get used to it and become familiar with the stations and routes and trains...its even fun, trying to follow the right colour on the right line and all :)

When i look at this map, i DO question myself how i had managed to go through Paris on a subway....I have no idea which stations i had used to get on/off....but it didnt seem problematic at all....from this point of view, seems like the most complicated thing ever :)
Apart from Paris, ive also used the subway system in London, Budapest and Vienna....and as long as you have a map card with you, they are all more than a piece of cake to use...
I sometimes wish we had a subway here as well..but when i think about it, this town is far from big enough for a subway....unless the subway goes to two or three nearest towns...coz that would be exactly like going from one to the other part of London...but when i think of all the chaos on the streets here...a subway would be a great solution...which will never happen...when i was like 5 years old, there was a project about building a tram...im 28...we are still tram-less....so getting a subway is equal to science fiction...

Well...sorry for the lack of updates lately...and for the short entry today...its just...life...but know that i do miss posting here when i dont do it...

Poland

I doubt we'll have any snow again this winter, so i better post this card while its still eligible to represent the winter season...

This is definitely one of the loveliest, cutest, BLUEST maps ive seen! It captured my heart on first sight :)
At first i thought that it reperesnts Poland in winter, but it actually shows one of Polish regions called Malopolska (in some free translation, it would be "little Poland")...im not sure why they picked that region, instead of showing entire Poland...maybe coz the cards are printed there...another idea crossed my mind that its maybe coz this part of Poland is famous for some winter events, but then i  recalled that i had also seen this same card representing summer...so the option is out. At least ive learned that "winter" in Polish is "zima" which is the same in Macedonian (зима).
I could go and write some info about Malopolska that I have found on the net, but i thought that Ksenia may give me more info and all, and esp. im curious to know WHY this set of cards represents Malopolska only and not entire Poland :) And if there is really a card for each of the seasons...

Speaking of winter, the weather here is rather insane...yesterday i had some things to do in the afternoon, and since it was sooo nice and sunny and lovely and warm, i decided to go by bike...i dont know if Murphy simply loves experimenting on me, but in the next hour the weather drastically changed and there was such a windstorm that i feared i may not be able to come back home...and yeah, it was an experience one of a kind to cycle in that wind, blowing like crazy from all sides....and to make things more ironic, once i got home, it all calmed down...i really feel like a magnet for bad things sometimes...the rest of my evening was all down as well...people keep disappointing me...i wanted to read a book or write a letter but i just simply couldnt focus on anything...after god knows how much time, my playlist had only instrumental and classical music in it...starting from Richard Clayderman, Mozart, Schubert, Bach, Vivaldi, Rachmaninoff, Wagner, Gershwin etc etc...sometimes according to my playlist, you can figure out my current mood...

Kuwait City, Kuwait

Well, unlike with my previous Kuwait postcard, this time im sure this one shows something from Kuwait City...in particular the Kuwait Towers.

The Kuwait Towers are three towers of reinforced concrete.
The main tower is 187 metres high and serves as a restaruant and water tower. It also has a Viewing Sphere which rises to 123 meters above sea level and completes a full round turn every 30 minutes. The second tower is 145.8 metres high and serves as a water tower. The third tower houses equipment to control the flow of electricity and illuminates the two bigger towers.

this is the fact that i found most interesting...the towers were built by Energoprojekt, a company from Belgrade, Serbia. Well, i dont live in Belgrade, but i feel it as mine...and i really love the place...well, i love other places in the world as well, but this one has a sentimental value...

Montana, USA

A card with some text on the back! Yay! :)

The Marais River makes countless serpentine bends and supports abundant streamside cottonwoods as it meanders through the Great Plains to meet the Missouri River near Loma, Montana. When the Lewis and Clark expedition reached that confluence, the Marias was running so high that the party split up to explore both rivers, unsure which one was the Missouri.
 

Toscana, Italy

One of my personally bought cards from my trip to Italy...I just dont know why the white lines around the letters for Toscana look soo annoying...as if they are simply screaming!

This past week has been really scarce on postcards...well, ive been somewhat left behind in sending cards lately as well, i focused more on some other kind of mail, so i think there lies the main reason...but i hope the following one will be more fruitful...i need mail, a LOT!
Its rather late, but i have a lot of stuff pending...i need to clean around a bit...i need to prepare stuff for work for the following week...i need to finish a book...i need to write some letters...
Oh, and today is 8th of March....international women's day...im not fond of holidays which are planned to be commemorated on one day only, coz they feel forced and all...but i do want to wish all women out there, Happy Women's Day...and to my mum ill buy something when she least expects it instead on a day like today when she is supposed to get something...plus i think, the day itself has lost a lot of its significance and the way its celebrated from the time when i was little for example...feels stranger and colder and simply alienated...just like the whole world around me....yeah, i need to get out of this mood, PRONTO! :)
See you during following week my dear postcard collectors!

Budapest, Hungary

Hopefully ill manage to write this before midnight, as this post would count for Friday and for the PFF...which stands short for Postcard Friendship Day and is hosted over at Marie Reed's really cool blog...its not just postcards there, but a number of various themes you may really be interested in...so just go and have a look...and me, hopefully, will be a regular Friday poster....thing is, Friday being my day off, i just get carried away with stuff and all and need to do all those things im unable to do during the week, so by the time you say 'pancake' the day has gone...speaking of pancakes, i had a delicious one today...i know i shouldnt have eaten it and i know that its not gonna do any good to my complaints that my pants just feel too tight, but oh, i just couldnt resist it...if only i didnt have that huge sandwich before that...

This card was given to me by my friend Marija who spent her New Year holidays in Budapest. She is one of those people who prefer to give you cards in person instead send them from the actual place...i never understood this...i guess not everyone gets the thrill of buying postcards and stamps, addressing them, writing something on them, and then wait for the surprise the other person will have when they find their card in the mailbox...its a pity most people here simply are not used to this...i wonder if its due to the fact that they dont really get mail so they just dont know the feeling...but i would never stop sending cards...even though i go bankrupt afterwards, coz i just send waaay too many :D :D :D :D But i love it, and i rather cut down on food or not by myself some souvenir i know ill never have a use for and that will just catch dust, instead deprive someone of a card....yaaay, hooray for the Postcard Friendship Day and long live postcards!!!!

Ohrid, Macedonia

Here is something for UNESCO collectors....homemade! :)))

This is the Samuel's Fortress in Ohrid...well, its not exactly in the centre of the town, but you would need to lose some calories till you climb there, but its worth it! (ehh, its soo nice when you can write an opinion about something due to personal experience and not based on what you've read or the impression you;ve received about it).

During King Samuel's reign (976-1014 A.D.) Ohrid was the capital of the first state of the Macedonian Slavs. Samuel’s Fortress in Ohrid dates back to the 3rd century and initially had three entrance gates, of which only one, the Upper Gate, has been preserved to this day. Before and after Samuel’s reign, the fortress had been demolished and rebuilt several times.
The highest part of Ohrid, which is 100 meters above the lake level, is surrounded by 10-16m high walls, built of stone, lime, and sand from the lake, and two defense towers.
After the arrival of colonizers from Asia, led by their commander Mino, the town started spreading outside the walls, on the surrounding plain.

There is a legend about tzar Samuel which ive known since i was little.
In the many battles fought back then, Samuel's army was defeated by the Byzantines and all the 14000 men in the army had been completely blinded...each 100th soldier had been left with one eye only in order to be able to guide the others back home. When Samuel saw his people blinded, they say he died of a shock and broken heart.

Machu Picchu, Peru

Here comes a really oldish card....the stamp is out and there is no date in it, so i cant tell you when it originates from...I wonder if it has been pulled out on purpose or just fell out with time...ive read around that some stamp collectors take their stamps out of postcards as well...i dont really get it...i think that if you take out the stamp of a postcard (and if you manage not to ruin the card in the meantime), the card left just feels naked and is obviously thats something missing when there is already your address in it and a message and all...i know there are passionate stamp collectors, but if i was one, i would never go that far and take out stamps from postcards themselves...

I dont know if  i had mentioned this, but im in one of those times, when im somewhat struggling with posting cards...not coz i have no cards to post, i have way too many waiting to see the light of day....but im somewhat limited with the variety of countries (due to my self-imposed postcard posting rule to which i stick as a blind to a stick) and i often remain with just a few countries available and i somewhat lose my inspiration and those times and i just cant pick coz there is not much to pick from and it feels as if im getting stuck in some repetitive scheme....i dont say i need totally NEW countries (though i wouldnt mind) but i definitely would need some refreshment and get something i dont have in stock....i just dont know how do i expect that to happen when ive fallen behind with swaps and sending cards and all...ive just been carried away with other stuff, plus ive been waiting some income as i could get stamps and all...and then i wonder why i dont have cards in my mailbox....ehh Ana Ana.....

Ijen, Indonesia

Anyone loves volcanoes?? Well, here is a nice card for you, volcano lovers...I think Marta loved them :)

The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes in East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex.
West of Gunung Merapi is the Ijen volcano, which has a one-kilometer-wide turquoise-colored acid crater lake. The lake is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation, in which sulfur-laden baskets are carried by hand from the crater floor. Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones forms an E-W-trending zone across the southern side of the caldera. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has an equivalent radius of 361 meters, a surface of 41 × 106 square meters. It is 200 meters deep and has a volume of 36 × 106 cubic meters.

Im pretty sure you didnt need all that volcanic info.... 

Tenerife, Spain

I got this card from Sean in Spain, and im extra happy to have my first card from Tenerife. Well Tenerife IS a Spanish Island and is actually the largest one of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.
Now since i didnt really pay much attention to Geography at school, History even less...some years ago, i used to think that Tenerife is just an island for itself and not under any other government and to make it worse, i used to think its somewhere either near Seychelles or Virgin Islands or Hawaii....yeah...have a laugh...

On the card you can see a dragon tree, which can be found only on the Canary Islands and a few places in Africa. This one is called Dracaena Draco, or just Drago...cool name for a tree :)

The tree is characterised by a single or multiple trunk growing up to 12 m tall (rarely more), with a dense umbrella-shaped canopy of thick leaves. It grows slowly, requiring about ten years to reach 1 m tall. Dracaena draco does not display annual rings and age can only be estimated by the number of branch forking occurrences (indicating the number of flowering episodes) and measuring the frequency of flowering (less than annual). Some specimens are believed to be up to 650 years old; the oldest is growing at Icod de los Vinos in northwest Tenerife ( yaayy, thats the one on the card ;-)

When the bark or leaves are cut, it secretes a reddish resin known as Dragon's Blood, used in ancient Roman and mediaeval magic and alchemy then believed by the users to be the dried blood of  dragons.

Mmmm, i love such myths and stories, about dragons and alchemy in particular...there is something fascinating at it, even though if i were an alchemist, i would have been a terrible one :) But i love reading and learning about it...

Thanks a lot Sean for the card...i love it when apart from having a really cool card, i get to learn something new as well.
 

Las Vegas, USA

I got this card back in time (in 2004 to be more precise) from Charity....wherever she goes, she always sends me postcards...even if she hasnt heard from me for ages, she always remembers to write....obviously not everyone is a lousy pal as me...

as she had written on the back, this one was sent when she and Scott were in Sin City for their anniversary and they were having a great time. I dont doubt that, knowing what all Vegas can offer...and its not just gambling and casinos....
the card shows the Spectacular Entrance of MGM Grand. It is a luxury hotel casino located on the Las Vegas Strip which opened as a Hollywood themed resort. The MGM Grand Las Vegas is the second largest hotel in the world and second largest hotel resort complex in the United States behind The Venetian.

The 30-floor main building is 293 feet (89 m) high and features five outdoor pools, rivers, and waterfalls that cover 6.6 acres, 35,000 m² convention centre, the MGM Grand Garden Arena, CBS Television City, and the Grand Spa. It also houses numerous shops and night clubs, 16 restaurants, and the largest casino in Clark County.
It has 6,852 rooms! And it has a 13th floor (if we have in mind that many hotels dont have a 13th floor or use it as a vacant space, due to the notorious number 13...

6852 rooms...my my my....

Aurora Borealis, Finland

here is one of the occurences in the world which totally fascinate me and which i really would love to see it live one day...i really wish i understood physics better, so i could analyze and understand in depth, how all this works and why do they occur...i know the general definition and i do grasp it...but i would love details...i would love to know what makes them vary in colours, and sometimes they are bluish, sometimes greenish, sometimes even red...and if maybe a particular colour can be invoked somehow...

the back of the card says: When the particles of the solar wind hit the atmoshpere of the earth, the oxygen of the air flares in a greenish light. I wish i could comprehened this cut down to the slightest details...

Ive talked of the Aurora Borealis before, so i wont be repeating myself over again...should i mention, i have several Auroras on stand by....ill just give you some links or nice things to watch....and while im on the subject, anyone cares to send me an Aurora Australis card? I would really love to have it as well...


i thought this video was educational...for the basics...and it also gives you a thrill of the Auroras....unfortunately, i cant embedded in the post, so you'll have to click on the link...


A Nasa Video about the Auroras

why are they sooo magnificient?!