Memory Monday

Greetings from Narvik, Norway

Sent by my friend on 4.3.1988 from Narvik

 

Nebraska, Netherlands, Norway

Mail from Nebraska, U.S.A.

Nebraska, "The Cornhusker State"

Sent by Charlene on 14 Dec, 2022 from Omaha, Nebraska 

Mail from The Netherlands

Pelstergasthuis is a guest house (courtyard) in Groningen, 

Sent by Marianne on 25 Sep, 2014 from Groningen

Old farm house.

Sent byElisa on 16 Jun, 2014 from Arnhem 

Mail from Norway

Rosos, Unesco World Heritage

Sent by Joey on 22 Feb, 2017 from Stavanger Noeway 

Multiview Monday

Greetings from Alta, Norway

Greetings from Mons, Belgium

Greetings from Sandanski, Bulgaria

Greetings from Turku, Finland

Schöne  Grüsse aus Thüringen, Gemany 

Sent by Laura on 9 Jan, 2018 from Gera, Germany 

 

Islands

Putbus, Rügen Island, Germany

Putbus Circus
The Circus in Putbus is a circular street around a small park.
Sent by Norbert on 16 Ma, 2015 from Düsseldorf, Germany 

 

Madeira, Portugal
Sent by Tania  on 13 Dec.2022  from Sines 

Norway, Hamnoy by Reine in the Lofoten Islands

Sent by Kari on 4 Oct, 2020 from Drammen

Telendos Islet near Kalymnos,  Greece

Telendos is separated from the main island by a channel just 700 meters wide. In the ancient times, Telendos was part of Kalymnos, until a massive earthquake in 535 A.D. separated it from the rest of the island.

Pigadia Karpathos, Greece

Karpathos is an island of wild, untouched beauty in the Dodecanese

Doors and Windows

Downing Street Nr.10 , London

Sent by Sandra on 1 Jul, 2018 from Luxemburg

Traditional Wooden Hanseatic Merchants Buildings of the Bryggen, in Harbour, Bergen, Norway

Sent by Jenny on 28 Apr, 2019 from Erfurt, Germany

Greece, Blue Door

Sent by Nadin from Halberstadt, Germany

 View in New York

Sent by Christine from Mannheim, Germany

Greek village

Sent by Sveta from Nizhny Tagil, Russia

Norway

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Norway, The land of midnigt sun.

Sent by Edwin on 7 May, 2022 from Horten, Norway

Horten is a port city, with many blooming gardens and several small trade areas.

 

Book and libraries

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Old bookshop

Photo Francesca Phillips

Sent by Martina on 29 May, 2022 from Schwrinfurt, Germany

 

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Deichman Bjørvika central library, Oslo

Sent by Marit on 30 May, 2022 from Oslo, Norway

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The Illumnated Manuscript 

Sent by Ellen on  28 May, 2022 from Massachusetts, USA

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General Library of University of Coimbra, Portugal

Sent by Ildi on 3 Mar, 2020 from Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania

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The Library of the German Bundestag

Library that serves the Members of the Bundestag (Germany parliament), the parliamentary groups and the Bundestag Administration

Sent by Lorraine on 15 Sep, 2030 from Hirschfeld, Germany

 

Sunday Churches

Good Sunday morning!

The Crib

Intricately carved nativity scene by Joaquim Machado de Castro in Lisbon Cathedral,  Portugal

Sent by my friend, Lisbon, Portugal

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Chruch of Gol, Norway

Received on 9 DEc, 2014

Sent by Kari ( Drammen, Norway)

 

Sloth and Sheeps

Two-Toed Sloth - Choloepus hoffmanni. Panama.

sent by my son

Sheepson the field from Norway

In the background Ohovde, 

Northern Europe's highest wooded mountain.

travel time 12 days

distance travelled 676 km

sen by Hilde, Norway

Greetings from Lüneburg Heath, Germany

Heidschnucken herd

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,270 kms

ent by Lisa, Germany

The Heidschnucke is a group of three types of moorland sheep from northern Germany. Like a number of other types from Scandinavia and Great Britain, they are Northern European short-tailed sheep

Landscapes

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Landscape view of green terraced rice field in Thailand on sunset time.

travel time 25 days

distance travelled 7,897 km

sent by "03043356",  China

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Evening was coming on....

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 644 km

sent by Linda, Kløfta, Norway

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Autumn magic, Schwellenburg, Germany

travel time 5 days

distance travelled 1,237 km

sent by Yvonne, Berlin, Germany

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 Springtime in Hudson River Valley

travel time 9 days

distance travelled 6,262 km

sent by Delia,  New York.

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Donautal - Danube Valley

travel time 5 days

distance travelled 1,737 km

sent by Tobias, Germany

Art and Architechture

Martiros Sarian (1880 -1972)  Night landscape. 1911, Sarian family collection, Yerevan. Martiros Sarian House-museum

Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter, the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting. Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter, the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting. He spent most of his career painting scenes, especially landscapes, of his adopted homeland, often employing the Impressionist technique of using vivid, dappled colour to capture the effects of light. He also painted many floral still lifes as well as portraits. 

More here

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travel time 5 days

distance travelled 2,915 km

received on 15 Jan, 2018

sent by Alex in Yerevan 

Gol Stave Church from about 1200, Norwegian Museum of Cultural History

Gol StaveChurch was built around 1200, and it is one of less than 30 remaining stavechurches in Norway. The church was built during the age of Catholicism in Norway. After the Reformation in1537, it was altered over time in order to accommodate the Lutheran liturgy. The term“stave church” refers to the staves, or posts, that support the roof. 

NO-158268

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 650 km

 received on 15 Jan, 2018

sent by Linda

Reflections

Bridal Procession on the Hardangerfjord, by Adolph Tidemand and Hans Gude. 1848

Travel time 16 days

Distance travelled 796 km

Received on 17 May, 2017 

Sent by Sissel in Tromso, Norway

Adolph Tidemand ( 1814 – 1876) was a noted Norwegian romantic nationalism painter. Among his best known paintings are The Haugeans, 1852 and The Bridal Procession in Hardanger,1848.

Hans Fredrik Gude (1825 – 1903) was also a Norwegian romanticist painter is considered  to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Romanticism.  Tidemand and Gude collaborated on several other paintings, all of which featured people in boats and Norwegian nature.

Cesar Buenaventura.  (1922-1983) Nipa Hut, 1940, UST Museum Manila

Travel time 27 days

Distance travelled 8,998 km

Received on 25 Aug, 2017

Sent by Kirsten, Philippines

Cesar Buenaventura was a Filipino painter known throughout his home country for his vibrantly colorful and thickly painted depictions of landscapes and people of the Philippines. Buenaventura often depicted farmers plowing fields or fisherman coming back from the sea, focusing on quiet scenes of everyday domestic and agrarian life. 

The Nipa hut is a type of stilt house indigenous to the vast majority of lowland Austronesian cultures of the Philippines. It often serves as an icon of Philippine culture or, more specifically, Filipino rural culture.

For more postcards, check Maria's  Postcards for the weekend 60: Reflections

Happy Women's Day...

with these cards from my unicef collection.

 

Holiday, Belgium
Artist Franz Gailliard

Offering, Brazil
Artist by Angelo Shepis

 Oda and Per, Norway
Artist Christian Krogh

Tante, Barbados
Artis Omowale Stewart

Mama Negra, Argentiina
Artist Susan Romero

N is for Norway

10.7. 89.

"Greetings from the northernmost post office of Europe. The sceneries are really amazing! "

Soile

Nordkapp is a 307 m (1007 ft) high cliff rising above the Arctic Ocean. Nordkapp is promoted as the northenmost point of Europe, this is however not true. The neighbouring point Knivskjellodden is actually 1,457 m (4780 ft) further north

  Nordkapp - The North Cape, the North Cape Horn has always been a well-known an important point of orientation for all boats and ships. The rock has had a great variety of names and it was only in the mid 16th century that it was given the present name.

View from Salen,  Habor, Hurtigruta dock

Hammerfest – the world’s northernmost town – is one of the most important travel destinations in Northern Norway. 



Kellokeskiviikko - Holy Wednesday – Peaceful Easter

Received on: 14 Mar, 2013

Distance: 692 km (430 miles)

Travel time: 4 days

Thank you Jørg from Oslo, Norway for this funny Easter card!

In Norway, Easter break is longer than in many other European countries. The Easter holidays start Wednesday afternoon before Maundy Thursday, and end on Tuesday morning after Easter Monday. This makes for a nice long Easter weekend in Norway!

Påske, the Norwegian name for Easter in Norway is characterized by more colorful traditions and joyous festivities than solemn religious observations.

A quite peculiar national trait in Norway is solving crimes during Easter. Reading crime stories and detective novels during Easter is a national trait in Norway. Each year, nearly every TV and radio channel produces a crime series for Easter. The milk company prints crime stories on their cartons. In order to cash in on this national pas time, publishers churn out series of books known as "Easter Thrillers" or Påskekrim. Nobody quite knows why, but for some reason, Easter is a high time for reading crime stories and detective novels in Norway, where many say that Easter and the crime genre simply work well together.

Here you have more Easter traditions in Norway if you like :)