Greetings from Germany

Traditional buildingd  from Germany

Leonberg

Sent by Harry on 8 Nov, 2015 from Stuttgart

German Carnival Museum in Kitzingen

Sent by Elisabeth on 7 Feb, 2018 from Wurzborg

Traditional house from Keitum, Sylt Island

Sent by Susanne on 11 May, 2015 from Düsseldorf

Oberammergau Pilatushaus - Pilate's House

Sent by Isolde on 6 Jan, 2014 from Pfozheim

Hamburg 1906, Fountain in Altona.

Sent by Olaf on 10 Oct, 2016 from Hamburg 

Greetings from Germany

Traditional German houses

Hotel in Reisen, Miltenburg

Sent by Silke on 12 May, 2015 from Miltenburg 

Dr. Faust house, Bad Kreuznach

Sent by George on 1 Jan, 2015 from Bonn

 Büchnersches Hinterhaus Building, the oldest house in Meiningen

Sent by on from Meinigen

Worpswede, House in Schluh

Sent by Kirsten on 7 Oct, 2014 from Dorsten

Apple harvest in Alten Land by Monika Piotrowski

Sent by Amgelika on 25 Mar, 2016 from Hamburg

Map Monday

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Sent by Yulia in Vitebsk, Belarus

on 13 Jul, 2017

travel time 7 days

distance travelled 955 km

Memory Monday

Fishing on Petsamoriver
Sent to my father-in-law on 1930s

Suomen Matkailijayhdisty - Turistföreningen i Finland

 Petsamonjoki - Petsamo älv - Petsamo River, 1930

Military mail
Sent to my father-in-law on  3Nov, 1941

The Helsinki Olympic Stadium is located in the Töölö district, about 2.3 kilometers from the center of the Finnish capital Helsinki, The Olympic Stadium was designed in functionalistic style by the architects Yrjö Lindegren and Toivo Jäntti. Construction of the Olympic Stadium began in 1934 and it was completed in 1938, with the intent to host the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were moved from Tokyo to Helsinki before being cancelled due to World War II. It hosted the 1952 Summer Olympics over a decade later instead. 

 Kuusisto-Kustö

Villa Nuuttila (1947-1953)

Architect Erik Bryggman  (1891– 1955)

Postcard sent to my father-in-law on 7Oct, 1958

Erik Bryggman was among the first to introduce Functionalist style into Finnish architecture. He lived and practiced architecture in Turku and was an influential character among the town’s architectural milieu.

"You are a guest of nature - behave." Hundertwasser

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Hundertwasserhaus, Vienna
  "You are a guest of nature - behave." 

travel time 19 days

distance travelled 2,295 km

sent by Nastia in Orenburg, Russia

The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, built after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser with architect Joseph Krawina as a co-author.  The Hundertwasser House is one of Vienna's most visited buildings and has become part of Austria's cultural heritage.

"The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line." 

Biomuseo. Panama City

Biomuseo. Panama City. Architect Frank Gehry

Sent by my son,  Panama City, Panama

January 2019

Biomuseo is a museum focused on the natural history of Panama and it was designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry. This is Gehry's first design for Latin America. The design was conceived in 1999 and the museum opened in October 2014.

 More his buildings here

Germany

Travel time 13 days

distance traveled 1,579 km

9 Oct, 2017 received from Michael, Germany

Art Nouveau water tower, Mönchengladbach,  Getmany

This building has a special shape, it was built in 1908-09,  it is 51 m high and the architect was Otto Greiß.

Mönchengladbach is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border.

Schöne Grüsse aus Regensburg. View over the Danube 

Stone bridge and Regensburg cathedral, cathedral of St. Peter 

Unesco World Cultural Heritage

Sent by Daniel on 7 Jan 2017 from Regensburg

travel time 8 days

distance traveled 1,635 km

received on 16 Jan, 2017 

Thailand

Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Grand Palace, Bangkok

 Wat Phra Kaew or the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (officially known as Wat Phra Sri Rattana Satsadaram) is regarded as the most important Buddhist temple in Thailand. Located in the historic centre of Bangkok, within the grounds of the Grand Palace, it enshrines Phra Kaew Morakot (the Emerald Buddha), the highly revered Buddha image meticulously carved from a single block of jade.

This card comes from  Suchada in Bangkok

Distance: 8,043 km

Travel time: 14 days

The Grand Palace on suuri muurien ympäröimä temppelialue. Kuuluisimmat nähtävyydet tällä kuninkaallisella palatsialueella ovat Suuri Palatsi ja kaikkein pyhin temppeli Wat Phra Kaew (Smaragdibuddhan temppeli). Alue on noin neliökilometrin suuruinen ja pitää sisällään yli sata rakennusta. Rakennusten seinät ovat päällystetty kullalla, mosaiikeilla ja kaiverruksilla. Noin 150 vuotta sitten palatsialueella asui kuninkaan ja hänen hovinsa lisäksi myös koko maan hallituksen päättävä elin.

 Wat Phra Kaew on luultavasti tärkein buddhalainen temppeli Thaimaassa . Temppelin valmistustyö aloitettiin vuonna 1785, kun kuningas Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) muutti kaupunkiin. Temppelin päärakennuksessa sijaitsee Smaradgibuddha, joka pienestä koostaan (korkeus 45 cm) huolimatta on yksi tärkeimmistä ikoneista thaimaalaisille. Legenda kertoo, että patsas on alkuaan peräisin Intiasta, josta se ajautui Thaimaahan. Patsas ei ole nimestään huolimatta smaradgikiveä, vaan vihreää jadekiveä, joka on päällystetty kullalla.

Wat Phra Sri Sanphet,

 Old Buddhist Temple, Ayutthaya, UNESCO World Heritage Site

 From Amp in Bangkok

Distance: 8,066 km

Travel time: 12 days

Thailand post issued a set of commemorative stamps dedicated to the National Children's Day 2014. The stamps feature boy & girl cartoons with the greeting gestures and words from different nations. 

Wat Chong Kham, Lampang.

 The arcitecture of Shan or Tai Yai style in the northern part of Thailand.

Came from Tanawan in Thailand

Distance: 8,066 km

Travel time: 11 days

This stamp was issued on 13th November 1997, commemorating the Royal Barge Procession.

 Royal barges have been a tradition in Thailand for several centuries.

Ephesus, Turkey

Turkey, Ephesus, Fountain of Trajan

 Upper row: 

The Polio Fountain,

 The House of Virgin Mary, 

 The Temples of Dea Roma and Divus Julius Caesar (Temenos)

Lower row: 

The Prytaneion , 

Theatre, 

Curetes Street

From my vacation to Turkey and Ephesus

Chichen Itza

Chichén Itzá is a large Mayan city famous for a large, pyramid temple built by the Maya civilization. It is on the Yucatán Peninsula, about 120 km to the east of Mérida. The temple, called Castillo, is about 1 km in diameter. There are many temples and pyramids at Chichen Itza.  

 Chichén Itzá on kuuluisin ja parhaiten kunnostettu esikolumbiaaninen arkeologinen alue ja historiallinen kaupunki Jukatanin niemimaalla Meksikossa. Sen rakentamisen aloittivat mayat. Chichén Itzá kuuluu Unescon maailmanperintöluetteloon. Vuonne 2007 Chichen Itza valittiin maailman uuden seitsemän ihmeen joukkoon globaalin yleisöäänestyksen perusteella. Alue on Meksikon toiseksi eniten vierailtu arkeologinen kohde. 

Great add for my UNESCO World Heritage collection. Thank you Heather!

Distance: 7,047 km
Travel time: 12 days

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!

Antonin Palace

Antonin Palace was founded by prince Antoni Radziwiłł. It’s a wooden palace in hunters’ style designed by Karol Fryderyk Schinkel on the plan of a Greek cross. 

Antoninin kylä on tunnettu siitä, että säveltäjä Frédéric Chopin oleskeli siellä vuosina 1827 ja 1829 herttua Antoni Radziwiłłin luona. Näiltä ajoilta on säilynyt arkkitehtonisesti kiinnostava, lehtikuusesta rakennettu pieni metsästyspalats. Palatsissa on hotellihuoneita ja Chopinille omistettu museosalonki, jossa tänäkin päivänä järjestetään säännöllisesti pianokonsertteja. Rakennukselle on myönnetty Europa Nostra -palkinto Euroopan arkkitehtuuriperinnön vaalimisesta.

Received from Bartosz in Poznan, Poland

Distance: 1,180 km

Travel time: 15 days