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Edition Tausendschön 

Holland- Canals

Sent by Christa on 4 Mar, 2022 from Zuidplas, The Netherlands

Balloons

Rainbow in the sky
Summer Glow

Traveling to Finland  by hot air balloon takes quite a long time.

Sent by Daria in Kaliningrad, Russia

sent on 2 Oct, 2018

travel time 335 days

 Above the Clouds.
Artist Artem Rhad Chebokha. Digital Artist. Saint Petersburg, Russia

Sent by Julia in Tomsk, Russia
sent on 15 Nov, 2017
travel time 14 days

Cappadocia, Nevşehir, Turkey

Sent by Erlad in Mersin, Turkey
sent on 19 Feb, 2016
travel time 11 days

Balloons

 Elizabeth-bam (Elizabeth Istomina) - Hot Air Balloon, Russia

Mary in Tyumen sent this nice balloon card also with balloon special balloon stamp.

Distance: 2,430 km

Travel time: 10 days

Awesome balloon catch :) Russia

Cute card comes from Tanaya in Kimry

Distance: 1,071 km

Travel time: 11 days

Boris Kustodiev, Blue House, 1920

This comes from Moscow sent by Ekaterina. I like the calm, summery atmosphere, people talking, reading newspaper and drinking tea on the balcony.

Distance: 1,171 km

Travel time: 12 days

Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (1878 –  1927) was a Russian painter and stage designer.

Kustodijev opiskeli alun alkaen teologisessa seminaarissa, kunnes hän vuosina 1896–1903 sai Pietarissa opetusta Ilja Repiniltä. Kustodijev matkusteli uransa aikana laajalti eri puolilla Eurooppaa. Maalaustöidensä ohella hän esimerkiksi kuvitti kirjoja. Hän oli fyysisesti heikko; hän sairasti tuberkuloosia ja vietti vuosia jalat halvaantuneina. Ruumiillisista vaivoista huolimatta Kustodijev maalasi lukuisia teoksia, jotka kuvasivat iloisin sävyin tuon ajan Venäjää ja sen ihmisiä. Hän kuoli 49-vuotiaana.

This is my entry for Beth's Postcard Friendship Friday.

Balloons

Balloons over Bristol, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Connecticut's premier Hot Air Balloon Festival in Bristol

The annual Plainville Hot Air Balloon Festival, presented by the town’s fire company, attracts thousands of spectators to what organizers consider one of the biggest and last remaining balloon festivals in the Northeast.

From Carol in Bristol, Connecticut
Distance: 6,232 km
Travel time: 7 days

Washington Balloons and Balloonist Prayer

Expanding around the world, hot-air ballooning is a fast growing sport.

From Becky in Seattle, Washington

Distance: 7,392 km

Travel time: 11 days

Up,Up and Away...

Cheer up, just get in and see where the wind takes you!

These  cards are from Lainey, Hangzhou, China and from Olga, Tyumen, Russia

Cappadocia, Turkey

Ballooning Cappadocia

From Seval, Bursa, Turkey

Cappadocia has unreal amazing, spectacular and surrealistic landscapes -  fairy chimneys, pigeon houses hewn into the unique rock formations, orchards and vineyards, impressive valleys, each with distinctive rock formations, colors and features.



Up Up and Away

For we can fly we can fly

My beautiful, my beautiful balloon....

Received on: 14 Jun, 2013

Distance: 7,924 km (4,924 miles)
Travel time: 15 days

I received this cute postcard from Helena who at  that time lived in Hong Kong.
The card is illustrated by Korean artist Kim Min.

Dorothy is finaly back home in Kansas :)

"The Silver Shoes took but three steps, and then she stopped so suddenly that she rolled over upon the grass several times before she knew where she was. At length, however, she sat up and looked about her. "Good gracious!" she cried.
For she was sitting on the broad Kansas prairie, and just before her was the new farmhouse Uncle Henry built after the cyclone had carried away the old one. Uncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto had jumped out of her arms and was running toward the barn, barking furiously."

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, also known as The Wizard of Oz,
is a book written  by L. Frank Baum and published in 1900.



Received on: 25 Jun, 2013

Distance: 1,890 km (1,174 miles)

Travel time: 136 days

Lena from Donetsk, Ukraine sent me these three balloons. Perhaps the northwest wind was blowing too hard and that's why Lena's balloons took so long to reach Finland. The balloons were released into the air from Donetsk stadium.

Received on: 6 Jun, 2013

Distance: 1,428 km (887 miles)

Travel time: 8 days

 This balloon card I received from Daryna, who is eight years old and lives in Lviv, Ukraine.

The Death of Harris, who jumped from a hydrogen balloon in 1824.

A sad story of Thomas and  Sophia

It was not a “perfectly good balloon,” as the sky divers put it – it was leaking, and he’d run out of ballast to eject in order to slow the balloon’s descent. So, to save his young fiancee’s life, he ejected himself. Thomas Harris is primarily known for his spectacular death, but he’s also remembered as the guy who invented the gas-discharge valve, which is a device that gets gas out of balloons quickly so they don’t drag on the ground.