Kellie Castle

Thanks to dear friend Tom for the beautiful reflection of Kellie Castle!

Sent:19 April 2016   Received: 29 April 2016   Travelled: 10 days

Västervik , Sweden

Västervik is a city and the seat of Västervik Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 21,140 inhabitants in 2010.
Västervik was first mentioned in 1275. The town was then located at the current location of Gamleby. In 1433 Eric of Pomerania decided to give it a charter and move it to its current strategically important location, close to the castle of Stegeholm. In the ensuing centuries Västervik suffered attacks from hostile armies. It was more or less completely destroyed five times between 1450 and 1677. Despite this, king Gustav Vasa established a ship industry here in the 16th century, from which ships sailed to Germany and the Baltic countries, and from the 17th century they sailed to Portugal too. In the 18th century a long period of peace allowed the ship industry to expand, increasing the ship routes down to the Mediterranean Sea. The population of Västervik in 1800 was 2 985 which by 1880 went up to 6 189 because of the industrial advancement and in 1920 it had reached 11 889. Building the railroad to Hultsfred, Norsholm and Vimmerby 1879-1906 changed the flow of people moving in and out. After being reduced 1920-1940 the population grew 1970 up to 20 577 inhabitants. Dockyards, papermill, fishing, nail factory, stone masonry, match factory, mechanical garages became the foundation of the towns industrial advancement. Västervik belongs to the Diocese of Linköping and the people have felt a belonging to both Småland and Östergötland.
Source: Wikipedia

Thanks to Karin for the nice swap!

Sent:   15 April 2016   Received: 27 April 2016   Travelled: 12 days

Dreaming

Photo by Sergey Demin

Thanks to Nataly for this beautiful reflection view from Russia

Sent: 31 December 2015   Received: 22 January 2016   Travelled: 22 days

Marina Bay reflection

A beautiful mirror reflection of Marina Bay.

Thanks to swap-botter Felicia for this postcard and the beautiful stamps

and deco!

Received: 5 Oct 2015

Lightner Museum

The Lightner Museum is a museum of antiquities, mostly American Gilded Age pieces, housed within the historic Hotel Alcazar building in downtown St. Augustine. This 1887 Spanish Renaissance Revival style building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Beautiful reflection card that came from Tiffany from the US via postcrossing.

Sent: 4 August 2015   Received: 18 August 2015    Travelled: 14 days

Mt Rainier

Mount Rainier is the highest mountain of the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, and the highest mountain in the state of Washington. It is a large active stratovolcano located 54 miles (87 km) south-southeast of Seattle. It is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States and the Cascade Volcanic Arc, with a summit elevation of 14,411 ft (4,392 m). Mt. Rainier is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world, and it is on the Decade Volcano list. Because of its large amount of glacial ice, Mt. Rainier could potentially produce massive lahars that could threaten the entire Puyallup River valley.

Source: Wikipedia

Wow what a spectacular view , one of the most beautiful reflections for my thematic

collection. Thanks to Snewelhat9 via swap-bot for this postcard.

Sent: 20 July 2015   Received: 6 August 2015   Travelled: 17 days

Sri Lanka Monk

YAY! Another monk card for my collection :D

Thank you Dennis for the amazing reflection of a monk paddling in a canoe!

Sri Lanka was one of the places I considered travelling to to see the ancient

history so it's nice to receive a card from there 

Sent:10 May 2015   Received: 19 May 2015   Travelled: 9 days

Cambodia

Another beautiful card from Cambodia, at this rate I think I'd have to visit this

country just to send myself a stamped and written postcard (aside from visiting

the lovely historical temples) as I have 5 cards from this country all sent from Mongolia,

Philippines and Russia, and two cards given to me personally >.>

Sent: 7 January 2015   Received: 28 January 2015   Travelled: 21 days

Eilean Donan at night

Thanks to Tony for this beautiful night reflection of the castle!

Received: 26 November 2014

Kilchurn Castle

Excerpt: Kilchurn Castle seen across the calm waters of Lock Awe.

It was built in the mid 15th century by the Campbells and converted

in the 1690s into a barracks capable of housing up to 200 troops. The 

castle was abandoned after a ferocious storm in 1760.

Thanks to Alan( postcrossing.com) for this beautiful reflection from Scotland!

Sent: 16 October 2014   Received: 29 Ocotber 2014   Travelled: 13 days

Sunset windmill

Yay a wonderful windmill card from my penpal Marte! I get many cards from Netherlands

via postcrossing but this is my second windmill card which fits several themes of my collection.

Thank you for this great sunset reflection

Received: 14 August 2014

Mt Fuji's reflection

And lastly, a reflection card of Mt Fuji, the biggest surprise for me

as it assures me that people pay attention to the different and varied 

themes that I collect :D Thank you very much Chris and Rafal for this

great addition to my Reflection theme!

And the gorgeous stamps!! 

dziękuję!

Sent: 12 September 2014   Received: 23 September 2014   Travelled: 11 days

Opole, Poland

 

Opole [ɔˈpɔlɛ] ( listen) (German: Oppeln, Silesian German: Uppeln, Silesian: Uopole) is a city in southern Poland on the Oder River (Odra). It has a population of 125,992 (June 2009) and is the capital of the Upper Silesia, Opole Voivodeship and, also the seat of Opole County. Today, many German Upper Silesians and Poles of German ancestry live in the Opole region; in the city itself, however, Germans make up less than 3% of the population.

 

thanks to Kasia for the beautiful reflection from Opole! (postcrossing.com)

Sent: 5 May 2014   Received: 26 May 2014   Travelled: 21 days

Guilin, China

Beautiful card with reflection of the karst mountains.

The place often depicted in Chinese paintings, thanks to an

anonymous pstcrosser from China for this wonderful card!

Sent: 25 March 2014   Received: 15 April 2014   Travelled: 21 days

Rialto Bridge

WOW

is my first thought upon seeing this card of the Rialto Bridge

and the fantastic reflection.

Ok so I have a secret, I didn't love Venice! >.<

I enjoyed Florence and Pompei more......

Thanks to Elisabetta for a most beautiful card and stamps :)

Sent: 17 March 2014 (no postmark??)   Received: 1 April 2014! Travelled:  18 days

Kranjska Gora

Kranjska Gora is a town on the Sava Dolinka River in the Upper Carniola region of northwestern Slovenia, close to the Austrian and Italian borders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kranjska_Gora

Thank you Nateja for the awesome reflection!

Sent: 4 February 2014,   Received: 17 February 2014,   Travelled: 13 days

Minnesota

Land of 10,000 lakes

Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the 32nd state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "clear water".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota

Thank you David for the typical sight of Minnesota. Awesome reflection too!!

Sent: 4 February 2014   Received: 14 February 2014   Travelled: 10 days

My first DDR postcard

The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik or DDR), generally known in English as East Germany, was a state within the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War period. From 1949 to 1990, it administered the region of Germany which was occupied by Soviet forces at the end of the Second World War—the Soviet Occupation Zone of the Potsdam Agreement, bounded on the east by the Oder-Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin, but did not include it; as a result, West Berlin remained outside the control of the GDR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany

Thank you Marco(postcrossing) for this DDR postcard. Appreciate having the 30 year old card!
Sent: 26 January 2014
Received: 10 February 2014
Travelled: 15 days

Balloon reflection

Thank you Ria for this amazing Balloon card over the water! Great photography and I'm going to have a doubly hard time finding a card to send to you ;)

Sent: 9 January 2014
Received: 29 January 2014
Travelled: 20 days

B&W Balloon

 Thank you Petra for this awesome view of a balloon!

Sent: 14 January 2014
Received: 27 January 2014
Travelled: 13 days