Bonaire

well let's go back to some normal cards, a.k.a where you won't be seeing ME anymore :P
though this one may cause some envy cos you don't get to see Bonaire cards so often, sent from there :)

I got this one thanks to Glenn as a part of his cruise this year...or as he calls it, the B of the ABC Islands. Ha, that's a cool way to name them and not until now I have actually thought of them as the ABC Islands.
Well, I guess I'll have to cover the A and the C soon...yep, Glenn went there as well and was kind and generous to drop me some surprises :)
Actually if Im not mistaken, this is my first Bonaire card on the blog since it got its dissolution from the Netherlands Antilles in 2010. Now it is a special municipality within the Netherlands.

I wonder if those houses in the background serve some purpose..cos I can see no windows at all...just some kind of hole in the front that doesn't even look like a door...

the stamp is from a set of 4 sailboats' stamps issued in 2012 (this one is called the Optimist)

thanks a lot again Glenn!!

Saba

Finally Friday, and a weekend ahead! A rather tough week....getting back to reality wasnt as easy as i had expected to be, plus it has been such an awfully hot week....equally to unbearable....I really need to take another week off and go to the mountains until this crazy heat passes by....

well, since i really dont have much will to do something outside the house at times like this, lets post some cards....not a bad idea, right?

and the first one, as usual reserved for some rare place in my collection, comes from another of the NA born children, the island of Saba, which is also the smallest special municipality of the Netherlands....its area is 13 km².
As the back of the card would say: Unique architecture. A unique aspect of the typically Saban architecture is the small-mesh Gingerbread woodcarving in markers, pergolas and fencing.

As dear JP would say, a very unusual place for those who love nature, hiking and diving, nothing else.
Does it also include people who would go anywhere just to get away from the annoying heat?

lovely stamp on the card...and great cancellation..just that somehow i misplaced the scanner frames, so it ended up like this, cut out on the left side....and i noticed it right after i had uploaded it so im honestly rather lazy to scan it all over again :)
the stamp was of course issued in 2011, but i couldnt find any other details about it...

Thank you JP!!