Showing posts with label French Guiana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Guiana. Show all posts

Monday, February 20, 2012

St. Laurent du Maroni, French Guiana

Good Monday to you all! Finally some nice sunny days here...and all of a sudden life feels better :)

well, work's been terribly busy lately....but even though tiring, interesting nevertheless....so im not complaining....just that as usual, im a terrible free-time manager...

anyways, let's see what do we have here for today...

I was lucky enough to reserve myself a seat in the French Guiana group...and...receive a card from there..yippie!!
What I especially love about this card, is the sky...though you do need to take a second look in order to notice it better since otherwise, the building remains in the focus...
But what building that exactly is, unfortunately I can't tell....all I know is that it is somewhere in St. Laurent du Maroni....which is a border town in north-west French Guiana and it is located on the Maroni River.
For a long time it has been the headquarters of an important association for the protection of the environment: "Le pou d'agouti", which strives for the protection of local and regional fauna and flora.


it is a pity that French Guiana does not issue its own stamps, but uses the French ones, being a French overseas department. Even the cancellations say 'France' though I guess there is something distinctive regarding the 'La Poste' number which indicates it comes from FG.
The small French stamps are rather familiar to you...but I really like this big one, issued last year for the Judo World Championship 2011. Thanks a lot to Luis for this card!