Showing posts with label Transilvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transilvania. Show all posts

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Transilvania, Romania

Another extra cool official card, from not such an every day country again...

RO-17508

This card shows a map of the Transylvanian region, made by Johannes Honter in the 16th Century. Honter was a Saxon humanist and theologian, who was best known for his geographic and cartographic publishing activity, as well as for implementing the Lutheran reform in Transylvania.

As much as I love those colourful maps with cartoons, I also like a lot these with the antique/latin touch...


And a lovely stamp from 2010....from a joint issue with Argentina, showing Mountain lakes

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Romania

I really dont know how i  got this card...Im almost positive its from a friend who had been to Romania, but i cant tell from whom, since two of them had been there

well, apart from this postcard and another (a normal one :)) I also got two identical mugs (one from each friend)....well, i dont know if you know, but I collect mugs as well, and so far have over 150 of them, which means i have no room to keep them, but still i keep buying them...i just love mugs and im especially happy when i can find a 'collection' of 3-4-5 or more mugs so then I try to collect all the mugs belonging to that collection
If there was a mug-exchanging thing, most probably I would have done it...but I doubt there will ever be a secure way to transport them thru regular mail....
Anyway, I was talking about the mugs i got...even though they are identical, i keep them both, coz i put more value to friendship than if what they had given me is the same or not...and the mug itself has a picture of Dracula's face, inside the mug, along the drinking line its said "To be used only for blood" and on the mug there is a 'nice' recipe for you to try it out

Transylvanian Cocktail

50ml blood type AB
30ml blood type A
20ml blood type O
with lemon and ice

if anyone ever gives it a try, can you please let me know how it tasted? :))
Thank you :P