My Postcard and Cover Blog

Today is the last day of the Games of the XXXI. Olympiad. The games took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 5th August to 21st August. Mo...

Some days ago, I received this nice cover. It comes from Alma, Colorado, USA. At an elevation of approximately 10,578 feet (3,224 m), the t...

This cover was also made by myself and I sent it to Shetland. Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago of Sco...

Staberhuk Lighthouse is one of five Lighthouses of Fehmarn  Island at the Baltic Sea in Germany. The tower was originally built with yello...

The Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana was founded in 1925 by the businessman and philanthropist Giovanni Treccani. His project was to p...

The Mirabell Gardens (German: Mirabellgarten) are part of the Mirabell Palace (German: Schloss Mirabell) a historical building in the city...

Goslar is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Goslar and located on the northweste...

Sevastopol (Ukrainian: Севасто́поль) is a city located in the southwestern region of the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea. As a result of...

This cover arrived some days ago. I came back from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada. The town is located on Victoria Island in the Kitikmeot ...

Büsum is a fishing and tourist town in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the North Sea coast,...

Yesterday I got this great cover. It comes from the Research Vessel and Icebreaker Polarstern. It is the most important resource for German...

This cover came back to me some days ago. It was sent to the Death Valley Post Office in California, USA. Death Valley is a desert valley l...

Yesterday I received this nice cover. It comes from the Post Office at Ochopee in Florida, USA. It claims to be the smallest in the United ...

Lake Constance (German: Bodensee) is a lake on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps, and consists of three bodies of water: the Ober...

Fort Santiago (Spanish: Fuerte de Santiago; Filipino: Moóg ng Santiago) is a citadel first built by Spanish conquistador, Miguel López de L...

The UEFA Euro 2016  is currently being held in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016. To commemorate the Opening Gamet, the german post issue...

Once again a nice cover with the 2016 EUROPA Stamp for my collection . Italy also issued two stamps. One with the common design and a secon...

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Ent...

The Saint-Nazaire Bridge (French: Le pont de Saint-Nazaire) is a cable-stayed bridge spanning the Loire river and linking Saint-Nazaire on ...

On the north-west Belgian coast , there is a little-known tradition: shrimp fishing on horseback. To do it, the fishermen drag the fishing ...

The 2016 IIHF World Championship was the 80th such event hosted by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), being held in Moscow and...

Peguera is a tourist town in the municipality of Calvià on the island of Majorca (also spelled as Mallorca in Spanish), part of the Spanish...

Again a nice cover for my EUROPA Stamps of 2016 collection . This time it comes from Andorra. Andorra is the sixth-smallest nation in Europ...