Thursday 18 April 2013

Umbrella Paintwork, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Sender: PALM, Received on: 16 Apr, 2013, Travel time: 17 days

New York Travel Poster

New York / Holland-America Line, Haarlem, 1938

Sender: MelissaSt, Received on: 16 Apr, 2013, Distance: 10,839 km (6,735 miles), Travel time: 13 days

Flag of Russia



Sender: elena_owl (Elena)
Received on: 16 Apr, 2013
Distance: 1,758 km (1,092 miles)
Travel time: 32 days


Allianz Arena, Munich

Sender: Flicki (Jörg), Received on: 16 Apr, 2013, Distance: 2,079 km (1,292 miles), Travel time: 13 days
"Tagetes" from the time series, "flowers", with 20 ct (07 July 2005)
Series "post": Spring Break in Germany, with 55 ct (01 March 2012)

Sisters Lake, Alishan, Chiayi, Taiwan

Sender: pinksakura (Doris),  Distance: 8,405 km (5,223 miles), Travel time: 20 days
Family 4v (2012)
Wishing stamps, Flowers 20v (2012)

Friday 5 April 2013

Samara Mosque, Samara City



Sender: MariyaTr
Received on: 20 Jan, 2013
Distance: 2,089 km (1,298 miles)
Travel time: 18 days


Moskow



Sender: Alokkivh
Received on: 4 Mar, 2013
Distance: 1,758 km (1,092 miles)
Travel time: 45 days


Flag of India


Three equal horizontal bands of saffron (subdued orange) (top), white, and green, with a blue chakra (24-spoked wheel) centered in the white band; saffron represents courage, sacrifice, and the spirit of renunciation; white signifies purity and truth; green stands for faith and fertility; the blue chakra symbolizes the wheel of life in movement and death in stagnation.

Sender: Parul, Received on: 25 Mar, 2013, Travel time: 23 days
14th March 2012: CIVIL AVIATION CENTENARY Denomination INR 05.00
09th November 2009: INDIGENOUS HORSES OF INDIA KATHIAWARI Denomination INR 05.00
08th August 2008:'GAMES OF THE XXIX OLYMPIAD''BEIJING 2008' Denominations INR 05.00

Taj Mahal, India (UNESCO WH Site)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/252

An immense mausoleum of white marble, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife, the Taj Mahal is the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.

Sender: Parul, Received on: 1 Apr, 2013, Travel time: 8 days
09th November 2009: INDIGENOUS HORSES OF INDIA, MANIPURI, Denomination INR 05.00
07th March 2013: OFFICERS TRAINING ACADEMY, CHENNAI, Denomination INR 05.00
07th October 2008: FESTIVALS OF INDIA, 'Durga Puja' 'Dussehra, Kolkata' Denomination INR 05.00

Flag of Belarus


Red horizontal band (top) and green horizontal band one-half the width of the red band; a white vertical stripe on the hoist side bears Belarusian national ornamentation in red; the red band color recalls past struggles from oppression, the green band represents hope and the many forests of the country.

Postcard 1 : Congratulations in Belarusian


Sender: noxious, Sent on: 21 Feb, 2014, Received on: 3 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 13 days


Postcard 2 : Saying 'Belarus' in different languages


Sender: Nadia, Received on: 17 Feb, 2013, Travel time: 21 days
Numenius Arquata
The public organization  “Ahova ptushak Batskaushchyny”(Protection of Homeland Birds) declared Eurasian curlew the bird of the year 2011 in Belarus.
There are logos of the International organization for the protection of birds “BirdLife International" and Belarus public organization "Ahova ptushak Batskaushchyny" (APB)on the stamps.

Geishas on the street in Kyoto, Japan

Sent on: 21 Jun, 2011
Birds, Japanese Tit, 1997

Maiko Girl (Geisha)


Female entertainers who perform traditional Japanse music and dances at exclusive parties. Maiko are apprentice geiko, most of them between the ages of 15 and 20. Maiko and Geiko is known as a "Geisha"
The Sun Flag, Songs 2v 1980
5y Daruma Doll 1955 New Year 1954 illustrated postmark. First Day. J.P.S. cachet

Japanese Currency

Sender: Ma_Ri_Ko
2012 Stamp Ukiyoe Series No 1

Taiwan Beer (1950s - 1960s)

Sent on: 27 Jun, 2011
Dendrocitta formosae (NT$10.00): This common resident bird, about 34 centimeters in length, is a subspecies endemic to Taiwan. The coloration of the bird is largely black, gray and brown. Its black hooked beak is thick and powerful and slightly bents downward. Its forehead and cheeks are black and its crown and nape are grayish black. Its wings are black with white wing patches. Its back and breast are chestnut colored and its belly pale gray. Its tail is long and black with gray uppertail coverts and orange brown undertail coverts.

Flag of Taiwan

Red field with a dark blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white sun with 12 triangular rays; the blue and white design of the canton (symbolizing the sun of progress) dates to 1895; it was later adopted as the flag of the Kuomintang Party; blue signifies liberty, justice, and democracy; red stands for fraternity, sacrifice, and nationalism, white represents equality, frankness, and the people's livelihood; the 12 rays of the sun are those of the months and the twelve traditional Chinese hours (each ray equals two hours).

Postcard 1 :


2001 Fruit, 7
2009 White Flowers, Murraya Paniculata (orange jasmine) 5

Postcard 2 :


Sender: shizuhikaru, Sent on: 16 Feb, 2014, Received on: 23 Mar, 2014, Travel time: 35 days

Postcard 3 :


Sender: Jensen-Lin, Sent on: 18 Sep, 2013, Received on: 19 Nov, 2013, Travel time: 62 days

Postcard 4 :


Sender: cloudcolors, Sent on: 12 Nov, 2013, Received on: 21 Nov, 2013, Travel time: 9 days

Kajaani, middle of Finland


Sender: marjala, Received on: 8 Jan, 2013, Distance: 2,585 km (1,606 miles), Travel time: 14 days

Mailbox, Helsinki


Sender: Nipsukka (Niina), Received on: 25 Mar, 2013, Distance: 2,179 km, Travel time: 22 days

Jiaxing City, China


Sender: andyeos, Received on: 4 Mar, 2013, Distance: 7,977 km (4,957 miles), Travel time: 33 days
Long Quan Kiln Celadon Jar Precious Relics (1998)

The Great Wall, Beijing, China (UNESCO WH Site)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/438

In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), when the Great Wall became the world's largest military structure. Its historic and strategic importance is matched only by its architectural significance.

Sent on: 05 Jul, 2011
Conservation of Biological Diversity
R30-3 Protecting the common homeland of mankind, Date of issue: January 1, 2004

The Wadden Sea (Westerheversand Lighthouse, Schleswig-Holstein), Germany

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1314

The Wadden Sea comprises the Dutch Wadden Sea Conservation Area and the German Wadden Sea National Parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. It is a large temperate, relatively flat coastal wetland environment, formed by the intricate interactions between physical and biological factors that have given rise to a multitude of transitional habitats with tidal channels, sandy shoals, sea-grass meadows, mussel beds, sandbars, mudflats, salt marshes, estuaries, beaches and dunes. The inscribed site represents over 66% of the whole Wadden Sea and is home to numerous plant and animal species, including marine mammals such as the harbour seal, grey seal and harbour porpoise. It is also a breeding and wintering area for up to 12 millions birds per annum and it supports more than 10 percent of 29 species. The site is one of the last remaining natural, large-scale, intertidal ecosystems where natural processes continue to function lrgely undisturbed.

Sender: Veve94, Received on: 5 Jan, 2013, Distance: 2,101 km (1,306 miles), Travel time: 21 days


Yenidze, Dresden, Germany

Sender: claudiaungefehr, Received on: 18 Feb, 2013, Distance: 1,617 km, Travel time: 10 days