My Postcard and Cover Blog

This one was an experiment I made, because I wanted to check if it works. I set up this cover myself and send it " Poste Restante &quo...

I'm happy to receive another cover with the EUROPA Stamp of 2016. This time it comes from Switzerland. Swiss Post  issued also two diff...

Some days ago, I received another card from Greenland . This time from Upernavik. Upernavik (Kalaallisut: "Springtime Place") is ...

Maryland is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C . to it...

Some weeks ago I received this nice cover. On the cover you can see a nice Souvenir Sheet of the Year of the Monkey Issue. Besides the Dome...

Today I received another cover with the 2016 EUROPA Stamps of Estonia on it. As you can see, besides the common design, Estonian Post issue...

Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St Geor...

I'm very happy to receive this nice card from the Postcrossing Meet-Up at Lake Constance. It took place on 7th and 8th May 2016. On the...

The Moehne Reservoir is an artificial lake in North Rhine-Westphalia, some 45 km east of Dortmund, Germany. The lake is formed by the damm...

Some days ago I received another cover of the 2016 EUROPA Stamps. This time it comes from the Ukraine. This is actually just a First Day Co...

Hans-Dietrich Genscher (21 March 1927 – 31 March 2016) was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who ...

Klaipėda, historically also known as Memel, is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. It is the third largest city in Lithuania and t...

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) (Ukrainian: Національний університет) is a national, coeducational research university...

Today I received a nice cover with a stamp I was looking for. The 2016 UEFA European Championship , commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2016 ...

The Rhine Falls (german: Rheinfall) is the largest plain waterfall in Europe. The falls are located on the High Rhine between the municipal...

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...