Christmas from USA

 

Thanks to Dianna for this warm Santa and also a lighthouse postcard!

Hope you had a nice Christmas!

Sent: 8 December 2015   Received: 18 December 2015   Travelled: 10 days

Fishing Village, Kaliningrad, Russia

Hahaha! I thought it was really odd to find a lighthouse among houses and it turns out 

this lighthouse acts more as a tourist lookout in "Fishing Village" which was 

commercially developed in 2006. It does seem like a nice place to visit.

Thanks so much to Katerina for the funny card!

Sent:20 August 2015   Received: 8 Sept 2015   Travelled: 19 days

Les Eclaireurs lighthouse, Ushuaia

Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse is a slightly conically shaped lighthouse standing on the northeastern-most islet of the five or more Les Eclaireurs islets, which it takes its name from, 5 Nautical mile east of Ushuaia in the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, southern Argentina. The brick-built tower is 10 metres high and 3 metres  wide at the base, with its windowless wall painted red-white-red and topped by a black lantern housing and gallery. Only a door pointing to the west provides access to the building. The light is 22.5 metres  above sealevel emitting white flashes every ten seconds with a range of 7.5 nautical miles (13.9 km). The lighthouse, still in operation, is remote-controlled, automated, uninhabited, and not open to the public, guarding the sea entrance to Ushuaia. Electricity is supplied by solar-panels. The lighthouse was put into service on December 23, 1920.

It is a popular tourist attraction, reached on short boat tours from Ushuaia. It is known to the Argentines as the Lighthouse at the End of the World (Faro del fin del mundo), although that name is misleading. The lighthouse is often confused with the San Juan de Salvamento lighthouse on the east coast of the remote Isla de los Estados, made famous by Jules Verne in the novel The Lighthouse at the End of the World, which is actually much further east.

Sent: 7 August 2015   Received: 3 September 2015   Travelled: 27 days

I'le Vierge

Île Vierge is a 6-hectare (15-acre) islet lying 1.5 kilometres off the north-west coast of Brittany, opposite the village of Lilia. It is in the commune of Plouguerneau, in the département of Finistère. It is the location of the tallest stone lighthouse in Europe, and the tallest "traditional lighthouse" in the world.The International Hydrographic Organization specifies Île Vierge as marking the south-western limit of the English Channel.
About 1450, the Conventual Franciscans established an abbey on the island. The name "Île Vierge" probably comes from a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1507, the monks moved to Aber Wrac'h on the mainland. In 1844, the French state purchased the island  from sieur Goyon de Coëpel for 6,000 francs.

Thanks to Mary from France via postcardunited for this 

lovely aerial view!

Sent: 20 August 2015   Received: 27 August 2015   Travelled: 7 days

Lighthouses of the North Sea

Thanks to a friend Anna for the lovely postcard of lighthouses from the North Sea

Sent: 12 MArch 2015   Received: 2 April 2015   Travelled: 21 days