Sunday Church

Church in Faja de Sao Joao. Sao Jorge Island, an island in the Azores

Sent by Lurdes on 22 Sep, 2013 from Sao Jorge

 

Villages

Memories

Tejeda and RoqueBentayga, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain 

Furnas, Sao Miguel Islandl, Azores, Portugal

Olympos, Karpathos, Greece

 

Summer Greetings

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Greetings from Ireland 

Sent by Olga from Dublin, Ireland

Pastures in South Coast

 São Jorge  Azores Portugal

Sent by Lurdes from  Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Azores

 

Windmills

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Wood Sawmill De Jager - Woudsend

This sawmill is located in Woudsend and was built around 1715. The mill used to run on wind power. Later, in the thirties of the 20th century, Houtzaagmolen De Jager was electrically powered.

Sent by Janet on 11 Jan, 2020 from Landerd, The Netherlands

Privet swap 

Typical mill

Azores Feel Alive

 

Sent by Mandy on 8 May, 2018 from Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal

 

Flower Friday

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Tulip shipment

Sent by Marinka on 21 Oct, 2021 from Oldenzaal, The Netherlands

Travel time 11 days

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Flowers of the Azores, Portugal

Sent by Norbert on 27 Mar, 2014 from Dorsten, Germany

Travel time 28 days 

Islands

Robben Island. off Cape Town, South Africa

Unesco declared Robben Island in the Western Cape a World Heritage Site in 1999. Robben Island has been used as prison and a place where people were isolated, banished and exiled to for nearly 400 years. Nobel Laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was imprisoned there for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid. To date, three former inmates of Robben Island have gone on to become President of South Africa: Nelson Mandela, Kgalema Motlanthe, and Jacob Zuma.

Sent by Terri in Cape Town

sent on 14 Aug, 2018

travel time 15 days

Islet of Vila Franca, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal

Bought it on my vacation to São Miguel

Merry Christmas from Portugal

2013 private swap from Lurdes, Angra do Heroismo, Terceira, Açores

"Correio de Natal"

travel time 20 days

distance travelled 3,154 km

2014 received from Ana in Albergaria a-Velha

Original painted by mouth by Bruce Peardon

Terra Nostra Garden

Terra Nostra Garden, Furnas, São Miguel, Azores

There has been a garden in the Furnas Valley for over 200 years.

The Furnas Valley became popular towards the end of the 18th century, due to the growing interest in the use of mineral water to treat health problems, such as rheumatism and obesity. Furnas has hundreds of small springs and streams, all with different properties. The Terra Nostra Garden is located in the midst of this magnificent water system.

Around 1775, Thomas Hickling, a wealthy merchant from Boston, who became an Honorary American Consul in São Miguel, built a simple wooden summer house, which came to be known as Yankee Hall. In front of the house, there was a pool with an island in the centre, both surrounded by trees that were brought in mainly from North America. An English oak planted by Hickling can still be seen there today.


Our visits to Terra Nostra Park

2008

2009

2012

Unique Architecture

 

 This postcard showing the crooked door of the Old King's school shop in Canterbury came from Germany sent by Deni.  The shop is possibly the most photographed historic building in Canterbury after the Cathedral.

Distance: 1,740 km
Travel time: 5 days

This super funny postcard showing a huge basket-shaped building was sent to me by Marcy in Ohio.  The building is the Office of Longaberger Company in Newark. I believe it is the largest basket in the world.

Distance: 6,860 km
Travel time: 19 days

Lanyang Museum, Yilan, Taiwan

This huge building looks as it has collapsed into the lake as a result of an earthquake. The building looks like a cuesta emerging from the surface of the lake. Cuesta is the outcome of colliding crustal plates and this sort of special landscape is common in north-east Taiwan. 

Card came from Stella in Kaohsiung city, Taiwan

Distance: 8,197 km
Travel time: 17 days

I think the topsy-turvy building was not designed to be lived in. It was created for a local zoo in Gettorf, Germany.

The card came from Ela in Elmshorn.
Distance: 1,210 km
Travel time: 6 days


We found this upside down house in Furnas village on São Miguel island in the Azores.
The building  is actually an electrical substation!

Lake Patas, Terceira, Azores

Private swap from Lurdes

Lagoa das Patas, ( Duck Lake ) a lake in Terceira island is created by severeal waterfalls. 

Such a beautiful place with hiking paths, picnic tables and benches.

Lake Sete Cidades, São Miguel, Azores

Lagoa das Sete Cidades (Lagoon of the Seven Cities) is a twin-lake situated in the crater of a massive volcano on archipelago of the Azores. It consists of two ecologically-different small-lakes connected by a narrow passage (and crossed by a bridge), located inside a dormant volcano on the western third of the island of São Miguel. 

From our vacation to beautiful and green São Miguel.

Terceira, Azorit

Lurdes lives in a beautiful town of Angra do Heroismo in Terceira island  in the archipelago of the Azores. She sent me these beautiful cards. Terceira looks a lot like São Miguel, green, hilly and magical. I have been to the island of São Miguel three times and each time I have been amazed by the beauty of its nature.  I really hope I can  sometimes visit  this fantastic Terceira island also.

Terceira is one of the larger islands of the archipelago. The largest town is Angra do Heroismo. The town is nominated by UNESCO as a  " world-town " worth to be  preserved. The town was on New Years day 1980 struck by a huge earthquake. Many of the beautiful  buildings in the center of the town were destroyed. But many many beautiful buildings are still preserved. You can still see some remaining ruins from the earthquake. There are a very large cathedral, a historic museum, and a bullfighter arena.

Azores and São Miguel

 Monte Simplicio Road

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Vida rural  - Rural life

 Parque Terra Nostra  - Terra Nostra Park Furnas

24. 2. 2009

Lagoa das Furnas - Furnas lake



4. 5. 2012

I've been sick for the past 5 days with a nasty flu and this whole week I've been pretty inefficient and tired. So I decided to cheer me up and browse our old holiday cards from Sao Miguel, the green island of Azores.  These cards I sent to my mother.

I feel so much better now!

This is my entry for Postcard Friendship Friday hosted on Beth Niquette's blog,

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