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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Seventeen Postcards and Counting

Snail mail will never get old. From Moscow, Barcelona, Kyiv, Zagreb, Oulo, Minsk, Szczecinek, Chisinau, Brussels, Taipei, Gironde, Nokia, Schwabach, Bremen and Leipzig - some vaguely familiar, some completely new to me. 


From these exchanges I learned Nokia is not only a famous Finnish cellphone brand but an actual place; martisor is a Romanian festival in celebration of spring; that it can go down to about -25 degrees Celsius in Finland; that Croatia is quite an interesting country to go to besides the fact that Mario Ancic is from there, etc. 

I joined Postcrossing for the mere curiosity and thrill of receiving snail mail, but now I'm even more invested in it because of the tidbits of new things I learn from so many people living across the world. I may not be actually sitting on a plane heading to these exotic places, but through these cards I get to enjoy the best thing about travel - new people, new cultures, new places to learn and dream of! 

6 comments:

  1. Would love to exchange postcards with you too. I messaged you my email. Send me your mailing address. :)

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    1. Heeeey! Yes, just replied! Awaiting your reply as well! :D

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    2. I just got the postage stamps will be sending the postcard this week. :)

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  2. wow! great project :D all of these through postcrossing? :D

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  3. Hi, Carla! :D Was so surprised with your comment on my (somewhat dead) wordpress, hee, but very pleased to hear from you all the same! (But in all honesty I'm a frequent lurker on this very pretty blog of yours, so it's not like I haven't seen you on the web :D)

    Hope you're doing well--in Singapore, wow! :D

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