Whitehorse, Yukon

Yukon Quest is a 1,000 mile international sled dog race

run in February between Whitehorse, Yukon and Fairbanks, Alaska.

Thank you to Deborah,who shared an amazing quote,

"Life begins where your comfort zone ends"

If I'm ever going to see more of the world, I'm going to have to

forego the comfortable luxuries and go even hardcore as a backpacker by

camping and avoiding tourist traps >.<

Sent: 11 February 2014,   Received: 27 February 2014,   Travelled: 16 days

Edinburgh Castle

Week 5: One postcard a week project

Ooh a beautiful view of Edinburgh in the winter.

Thank you Tom for the spectacular view and Horse stamps!

Sent: 1 February 2014

Received: 13 February 2014

Travelled: 12 days

Vintage Hawaii

 

A vintage reprint showing the hula girls of Hawaii, many thanks to Pat for this postcard and the lovely Horse stamp ^_^

 

Sent: no postmark :o

Received: 5 February 2014

 



 

 

Khoo Kongsi, Penang

The famous Khoo Kongsi is the grandest clan temple in the country. It is also one of the city's major historic attraction. The clan temple has retained its authentic historic setting, which includes an association building, a traditional theatre and the late 19th century rowhouses for clan members, all clustered around a granite-paved square. It is located in Cannon Square in the heart of the oldest part of the city of George Town, in the midst of narrow, winding lanes and quaint-looking pre-War houses exuding a palpable old world charm.

I really would love to visit Penang one day, it feels like it has retain very much the old traditional charm of a bygone era. I'm not a traditional Chinese and I find it very fascinating to read and learn about the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia and the different Chinese clans. I'm Hakka by the way and I don't know whether that falls into Han Chinese or a different minority group.

Thank you Violet for this lovely postcard of Khoo Kongsi

Sent: 28 January 2014

Reeived: 30 January 2014 (hah! on the Lunar New Year's Eve!)

Travelled: 2 days