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January 31, 2012
0112 BELGIUM (West Flanders) - The successor to the oldest lighthouse in Europe
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Nieuwpoort is a municipality located in Flanders, to the mouth of the river Yser into the North Sea, on the Channel coast between Dunkirk a...
January 30, 2012
0111 EGYPT (Cairo) - Memphis and its Necropolis - the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur (UNESCO WHS)
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This view of the pyramids at Giza , from the plateau to the south of the complex, is, without doubt, one of the most popular. From righ...
January 29, 2012
0110 LUXEMBOURG - A short tour of Grand Duchy
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According to the census of 2011, Luxembourg has 439,539 inhabitants, as a district of a city like Shanghai, Moscow and New York City, t...
January 27, 2012
0108 UNITED STATES (Michigan) - Grand Rapids skyline
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In 1805, when was born Michigan Territory, effectively consisting of Detroit and the surrounding area - to 52 years after the British had t...
January 24, 2012
0106 UNITED KINGDOM (Northern Ireland - Ulster) - Enniskillen Castle
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0106 The south tower of Enniskillen Castle Located between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne , Enniskillen is a little town ...
January 23, 2012
0105 AUSTRALIA - This is so relaxing!
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Quite many areas in the world are associated in our minds with some animals that live there, but I don't think there is a close...
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January 22, 2012
0104 UNITED STATES (Wisconsin) - A public library for 481 people
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Doesn't happen too often to receive a postcard from a settlement with only 481 inhabitants. Actually doesn't ever happened. Beh...
January 17, 2012
0101 A 20€ bill from Santa Claus
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I wouldn't say that is the best time for a discussion on the euro, but Siem "Makemehappy" sent me a postcard with a 20 euro b...
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January 16, 2012
0100 SPAIN (Cantabria) - El capricho de Gaudí
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Of all the cities that I have ever seen them before (not too many, it's true) most impressed me Barcelona , and Antonio Gaudí was ...
January 15, 2012
0099 CHILE - Mapuche, people of the land
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If sending postcards would be a profession, Hernán would be in the elite professionals and on his business card would be engraved the t...
January 13, 2012
0098 NETHERLANDS (Netherlands / Zeeland) - A beautiful basilica, pursued by bad luck
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Although in nowadays is a small town with only 28,000 inhabitants, Hulst (Holly in English), located to the east of Zeelandic Flander...
January 12, 2012
0097 CHINA (Shanghai) - A tram at the end of the road
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It seems to me logical that the largest city proper in the world (over 23 million inhabitants in 2010), with probably one of the highes...
January 11, 2012
0096 DJIBOUTI - A lake ten times more salty than sea
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First I have to say that unfortunately I don't received this postcard from Djibouti, but from Germany, from Silke, who, as he said in t...
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0095 GERMANY (North Rhine-Westphalia) - Sparrenburg, the castle from the Teutoburg Forest
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Located about 60 km southeast for the place of the famous battle in which Arminius massacred 2,000 years ago three Roman legio...
January 9, 2012
0094 NICARAGUA (Rio San Juan) - Fortress of the Immaculate Conception (UNESCO WHS - Tentative List)
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Colonized by the Spaniards in the 16th century, Nicaragua was subject to frequent raids by Dutch, French and British pirates, the city...
January 3, 2012
0090 FRANCE (Occitania) - Canal du Midi (UNESCO WHS)
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Unlike many other monarchs, Louis XIV had at its disposal, besides tenacity and funds, enough time to carry out his plans, so that after...
January 2, 2012
0088 RUSSIA (Moscow) - Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent (UNESCO WHS)
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So important was Smolensk , that in 1524, to the 10th anniversary of its conquest, the Grand Prince of Moskow Vasili III had built ...
December 31, 2011
0087 NETHERLANDS (Netherlands / Gelderland) - The Nijmegen road bridge
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Behold that Market Garden Corridor (from Eindhoven to Arnhem) start to take shape. After the postcard with the railway bridge from Nij...
December 26, 2011
0083 - CZECH REPUBLIC (Plzeň) - The Benedictine Abbey of Kladruby
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For several years I no longer follow the news neither on television nor on the radio, so that events, be they from Romania or from the w...
December 25, 2011
0082 UNITED STATES (Washington) – The gateway to Alaska
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I don't think that I'm the only one for whom Seattle remained forever linked with the grunge . So much touched me the move...
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