My Postcard and Cover Blog

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country at the centre of the Indochinese peninsula in Mainland Southeast Asia. It is bor...

Lisbon is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with a population of 552,700. It is continental Europe's westernmost capital ci...

Born as Leonie Sachs (10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) Nelly Sachs was a Jewish German poet and playwright whose experiences resulting from ...

Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX) is the largest and busiest airport in the Greater Los Angeles Area and the state of Californ...

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland, about 260 kilometres (160 mi) from...

Europa stamps are special stamps issued by European postal administrations/ enterprises under the aegis of PostEurop in which Europe is th...

Switzerland as a seafaring country maybe sounds strange, but this landlocked country is on the high seas. Swiss merchant ships are operated...

The Reinheitsgebot ( literally "purity order"), sometimes called the "German Beer Purity Law" in English, is the colle...

The Moselle (German: Mosel) is a river flowing through France , Luxembourg , and Germany. It is a left tributary of the Rhine, which it joi...

Pituffik is a former settlement in northern Greenland , located at the eastern end of Bylot Sound by a tombolo known as Uummannaq, near the...

Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movem...

Triesenberg is a municipality in Liechtenstein with a population of 2,669 (as in 2013). Its area of 30 square kilometers makes it the lar...

Pavlovsk Palace is an 18th-century Russian Imperial residence built by Catherine the Great for her son, Grand Duke Paul, in Pavlovsk, with...

I received this two cards some days ago. On the cards you can see the new german Baby Animals stamps. The first one is the European hare (L...

Henri Nestlé, born Heinrich Nestle (10 August 1814 – 7 July 1890), was a German-born Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé , the wor...

Iceland  is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean. It has a population of 329,100 and an area of 103,000 ...

Sanssouci is the former summer palace of Frederick the Great , King of Prussia, in Potsdam, near Berlin . It is often counted among the Ge...

Odessa is a city in and the county seat of Ector County, Texas, United States. It is located primarily in Ector County, although a small po...

Some days ago I received this nice envelope from Malaysia. On the envelope I received the set of Malaysian Primates to celebrate The Years ...

On 17 July 1866, General Henri Dufour, Federal Councillor Jakob Dubs and other prominent figures met in Bern with the goal of founding the ...

Nancy is the capital of the north-eastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. The metropolitan area of Nancy had a population of 410,5...