Riomaggiore - Italy

This beautiful card was a surprise from Rita. Riomaggiore is 1 of the 5 Cinque Terre villages classified as Unesco whs.

"Riomaggiore is a village and comune in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy. It is the first of the Cinque Terre one meets coming from La Spezia.

The village, dating from the early thirteenth century, is known for its historic character and its wine, produced by the town's vineyards. Riomaggiore is in the Riviera di Levante region and has shoreline on the Mediterranean's Gulf of Genoa, with a small beach and a wharf framed by tower house.

The village is also famous for having numerous aquariums and zoos, all with native Italian animals and sealife in them.

The Via dell'Amore is a path connecting Riomaggiore to its frazione Manarola, also part of the Cinque Terre.

Riomaggiore is the most southern village of the five Cinque Terre, all connected by trail. The water and mountainside have been declared national parks." - in: wikipedia

Wat Phou - Laos

Beside the Algeria card, Verena also gave me 2 unesco cards from Laos. This card with the Wat Phou is on the UNESCO list under the name Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape.

"Wat Phou is a ruined Khmer temple complex in southern Laos. It is located at the base of mount Phu Kao, some 6 km from the Mekong River in Champasak province. There was a temple on the site as early as the 5th century, but the surviving structures date from the 11th to 13th centuries. The temple has a unique structure, in which the elements lead to a shrine where a linga was bathed in water from a mountain spring. The site later became a centre of Theravada Budhist worship, which it remains today." - in: wikipedia

Ghardaïa - Algeria

This card is another gift from a postcrosser i met in Zurich, Verena "vre". It's my second card from Algeria.

"Ghardaïa is the capital city of Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. It is the traditional heart of the M'zab valley, home of the Ibadi sect in Algeria, and has preserved its original medieval architecture remarkably well; the valley of which it forms a part is an official World Heritage Site. Ghardaïa is renowned for its coarse goat hair carpets, generally with simple geometric patterns in black and white." - in: wikipedia

FR-79982

Yesterday i've checked my mailbox a couple of times and the last last i checked i've found this official from France.

FR-79982, sent by Alice.
Aix-en-Provence is a city in southern France, some 30 km (19 mi) north of Marseille. It is in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône.
On the card there's the Hotel de Ville Square.

Wachau - Austria

These 2 cards are from Austria and both from Wachau, an austrian unesco whs. I didn't have cards from there and i got the 1st one from "oldieoma" in Switzerland during the meeting in Zurich. The other one is an official card, my 1st one from Austria.

"The Wachau is an Austrian valley with a landscape of high visibility formed by the Danube river. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations of Lower Austria, located midway between the towns of Melk and Krems. It is 30 km in length and was already settled in prehistoric times. A well-known place and tourist attraction is Dürnstein, where King Richard the Lion-Heart of England was held captive by Duke Leopold V." - in: wikipedia

AT-49155.
On the card we can see the Stift Melk, the Castle and Abbey of Schönbühel, Dürnstein and the ruins of the Aggstein Castle.

Squirrel

I got this cute squirrel through the "favorites tag" and it was sent by Johanna "devanna" from Finland.


A squirrel is one of many small or medium-sized rodents in the family Sciuridae. In the English-speaking world, squirrel commonly refers to members of this family's genera Sciurus and Tamiasciurus, which are tree squirrels with large bushy tails, indigenous to Asia, the Americas and Europe. Similar genera are found in Africa. The Sciuridae family also includes flying squirrels, as well as ground squirrels such as the chipmunks, prairie dogs, and woodchucks. Members of the family Anomaluridae are sometimes misleadingly referred to as "scaly-tailed flying squirrels" although they are not closely related to the true squirrels.

US & PH

When i got home from Switzerland, I had a couple of cards waiting for me, some of them were officials. These 2 are from the USA and the Philippines.

US-599151, sent by Jeanne.

On the back of the card: "Beautiful Puget Sound, in scenic Washington State, is an arm of the vas Pacific Ocean. The Sound is nestled between the glacied Olympic Mountains to the west and the spectacular Cascade Range to the east. The crown of Washington, Mount Rainier is only 40 miles from sea level at Tacoma. The now famous and eruptive Mt. St. Helens is 70 miles south of Tacoma and 90 miles south of Seatle. Numerous interesting state ferry routes ply Puget Sound."

PH-13848, sent by Pearl.

I think this is my 1st official from the Philippines.

This card was made by Pearl and the pictures were take by one of her friends.