Summer Mood

Fishing on a lake.

Summer flowers

Summer bouquet

Illustration by Martta Wendelin, Finnish artist 

Lumpeenkukka - Nymphaea alba 

Private swap sent by Liisa from Seinäjoki. Finland

 

Austria

A breathtaking view over lake Ossiach in Carinthia, Austria

 

Italy

Sardinia, Italy 

Alghero,  Nuraghe Palmavera

Sent by my family on their vacation to Sardinia, Italy

The Nuraghe Palmavera is an archaeological site . It is classified as a complex nuraghe, that consists of several towers joined together. The nuraghe and the surrounding village were built in various phases during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

 Muraghe is characteristic fort of pre-Roman Sardinia, mostly in the shape of a truncated conical tower with an architraved door and access corridor to a single internal circular chamber, covered by a dome with concentric rings. 

Bussana Veccia, Sanremo 

Bussana Vecchia is a former ghost town in Liguria, Italy. Abandoned due to an earthquake in 1887, it was renovated and repopulated by an international community of artists in the early 1960s.

Sent by Marco on 15 Sep, 2020 from Sanremo

The House of St. Florian, La Floriana, Misteri E Magie - unique house in  Canazei, Italy

Sent by Mara on 22 Sep, 2017 from Germany

Lake Maggiore, Stresa

Sent by Paola on from 12 Feb, 2015 from Oleggio, Italy

Bella Italia, Red Fiat , Assisi

Sent by Eija on 12 Oct. 2014 from Lahti, Finland 

Smile on Saturday

The stormy clouds will float away and the clear sky will smile again

Sent by Sebastian and Michaela  on 9 Sep, 2014  from Butzbach, Germany

Finland, lakes and islands

Sent by my brother on 18 Mar, 2019 from Helsinki, Finland

 

 

Dreaming of....

Summer days by the lake 

Sent by my brother from Jyväskylä, Finland

Finnish Lakeland

Lakes, lakes and mor lakes ♥

Thanks to the latest Ice Age, Finland has a huge amount of water: these days we have almost 188 000 lakes or ponds! The biggest ones are lake Saimaa in Eastern Finland, lake Inari in Lapland, lake Päijänne in the South and lake Oulujärvi near the city of Oulu.

 

Kiuasniemi Marina in Padasjoki by the Päijänne lake ♥

Photo Tomi Helminen

 

Autumn Serenity

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Russia, Autumn in Dombai (Western Caucasus, a Natural UNESCO World Heritage Site)

Received on 4 Dec, 2015

Sent by Veronica ( Ovorosslysk, Russia)

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Mysterious stone pillars of Russia

Received on 12 Mar, 2018

Sent by Tatiana (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

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Karakol lake, Russia.  Photo Pavel Filatov, Landscape & Ethnic Photography from Mongolia, Altai and Tuva. Photo Pavel Filatov

Received on 20 Nov, 2015

 Sent by Kate (Barnaul, Siberia)

Water vehicles

 The Tax Tower in Alkmaar, the Netherlands.

Sent by Gerrit in Alkmaar, The Netherlands

on 23 Aug, 2015

travel time 8 days

distance travelled 1,497 km

The Accijnstoren, meaning tax tower, is a tower in the dutch town of Alkmaar, built in 1622. All imported goods must be presented to the tower, the usage rights that were taken were an important source of income for the city. This square bell tower is built of brick with stone bands.

The ship is former inland freighter, the type is called Tjalk.

 Pythagorion harbor on Samos island, Greece.

My Samos collection.

 Yachts on the lake Galve, Trakai, Lithuania

Sent by Lidija in Sakiai, Lithuania

on 7 Aug, 2017

travel time 7 days

distance travelled 852 km

Sunrise, sunset ...

Sunrise, sunset

Sunrise, sunset

Swiftly flow the days

Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers

Blossoming even as we gaze

Acacia, The Iconic Tree of the Savanna.
Giraffes at sunset in the savannah. Kenya/Tanzania. East Africa.

Sent by Mathias in Bremen, Germany
 on 30 Oct, 2019
travel time 6 days
distance travelled 1,316 km

Sent by Julie in Jiayi Shi, Taiwan
 on 14 Feb, 2019
travel time 29 days
distance travelled 8,119 km

Sent by Mantas in Rietavas, Lithuania
on 27 Dec, 2018
travel time 208 days
distance travelled 773 km

Sent by Rianne in Nijmegen,  The netherlands

on 20 Apr, 2016

travel time 16 days

distance travelled 1,538 km

Sent by Vinka in Pierov, Czech Republic

on 23 Jul, 2019

travel time 11 days

distance travelled 1,496 km

  

Hotels

 Sochi.  Dagomys hotel resort, 1995

From our friends on their vacation to Sochi

Hotel Tammer, (Radisson Blu Grand Hotel Tammer) Tampere Finland

Facebook Travel swap from Essi

 Schöner Schwarzwald

Berghotel Mummelsee

The lake Mummelsee and the mountain hotel in Seebach, Black Forest, Germany, 

Sent by Ellen, Schwarzwald

sent on 12 May, 2019

travel time 4 days

Hotel Italia, Dormeletto, Lago Maggiore, Italy

Sent by Guido in Italy near Lago Maggiore

sent on 23 Sep, 2018

travel time 12 days

Spring blossoms

Lake Chelan, Washington,  U.S.A.

Apple blossoms fill the Columbia Valley in springtime. 

travel time 14 days

distance travelled 7,340 km

sent by Anna, Seattle, Washington

Poppy time
travel time 5 days
distance travelled 1,385 km
sent by Grit, Germany

Wild Flowers
Mulesears in Courthouse Towers, Arches National Park, Utah, U.S.A.
travel time 18 days
distance travelled 8,092 km
sent by Kyrst, Utah, U.S.A.

Happy Spring Time!
travel time 5 days
distance travelled 1,510 km
sent by Marjan, The Netherlands

Königssee and St. Bartholomew's Church

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travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,807 km

sent by Ischa, London

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travel time 7 days

distance travelled 1,790 km

set by Dana, Schongau

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travel time 7 days

distance travelled 1,677 km

set by Anja, Ingolstadt

The Königssee is a natural lake in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. Most of the lake is within the Berchtesgaden National Park.

St. Bartholomew's is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in the Berchtesgadener Land district of Bavaria in Germany. It is named after Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, patron of alpine farmers and dairymen. The church is located at the western shore of the Königssee lake, on the Hirschau peninsula. It can only be reached by ship or after a long hike across the surrounding mountains.

Nature

Altai Mountains, Russia

From Maria, Siberia, Russia

Velká Amerika (Big America, Czech Grand Canyon)

From Lucie, Prague, Czech Republic

Cakesota Island reflects in tidal pools from Second Beach,  Olympic National Park, WA, U.S.A.

From Bob, Washington

Ergaki Nature Reserve, Krasnoyarsk region, Siberia, Russia.

From Ekaterina, Stavropol, Russia

Indonesia

Belitung Island, Big Rocks with White Sandy Beach

Yuni sends greetings from Java island and Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.

Lake Toba is a large natural lake occupying the caldera of a supervolcano. The lake is about 100 kilometres long, 30 kilometres wide, and up to 505 metres deep. Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is the largest lake in Indonesia and also the largest volcanic lake in the world-

From Virli in Meedan, North-Sumatra, Indonesia

Rainy day mail

 Town Hall Tower and Old  Town, Regensburg

Sent by Felix, Germany

 Lake Königssee and Pilgrimage church Saint Bartholomew at the foot of Mount Watzmann.

Sent by Leo, Germany

Speyer Cathedral, UNESCO World Heritage

Sent by Sandra, Germany

Speyer Cathedral, a basilica with four towers and two domes, was founded by Conrad II in 1030 and remodelled at the end of the 11th century. It is one of the most important Romanesque monuments from the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The cathedral was the burial place of the German emperors for almost 300 years.

Reflections

 Piran, the dream city

Sent by Maruša in Begunje, Slovenia

Distance: 1,936 km

Travel time: 18 days

Piran is a town in southwestern Slovenia on the Gulf of Piran on the Adriatic Sea. It is one of the three major towns of Slovenian Istria. The town has much medieval architecture, with narrow streets and compact houses. Piran is the administrative centre of the local area and one of Slovenia's major tourist attractions.

 Vitsebsk. St. Assumption Cathedral on the  mouth of river Vitba

Sent by Olesia in Navapolatsk, Belarus

Distance: 879 km

Travel time: 9 days

Vitebsk or Vitsebsk is a city in Belarus and the capital of the Vitebsk Region. Artist Marc Chagall was born in Vitsebsk in 1887.

Amsterdam Canals

Sent by Kin&John in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Distance: 1,525 km

Travel time: 5 days

Amsterdam has more than one hundred kilometers of canals, about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges.  Alongside the main canals are 1550 monumental buildings. The 17th-century canal ring area were placed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2010 contributing to Amsterdam's fame as the "Venice of the North"

Peaceful Sceneries

Hoodoo rock formations in Heping Island Park  (also known as Peace Island Park),  Keelung, Taiwan

Sent by Emma in Kellung City, Taiwan

Distance: 8,020 km

Travel time: 23 days

Poperechnoe Multinskoe lake, Altai Republic - Alexandr Ermolitsky Photography

Sent by Kate in Moscow, Russia

Distance: 1,171 km

Travel time: 15 days