German Villages

Villagestreet in Nieblum on Föhr, Germany 

Sent by Ruth on 16 Oct 2014 from Krefeld

Archsum on Sylt Island, Germany 

Sent by Heidi on 13 Aug, 2018 from Dresden

Old farm, Langquaid

Sent by Alex on 12 Dec, 2014 from Langquaid

Vitte

Art by Willi Berger, 1981, Fischerhaus in Vitte 

Seny by Norbert on 18 Jun, 2014 from Düsseldorf

 

Villages

Memories

Tejeda and RoqueBentayga, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain 

Furnas, Sao Miguel Islandl, Azores, Portugal

Olympos, Karpathos, Greece

 

Summer Memories

 Bicycle on the beach

Sent by Irina in Bratsk,  Russia

on 9 Oct, 2016

travel time 64 days

distance travelled 4,251 km

 Beautiful flowers in Westland museum in Honselersdijk, The Netherlands

Sent by Sandra in Naaldwijk, The netherlands

on 24 Sep, 2015

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,586 km

Farmhouses in Berner Oberland, Switzerland

Sent by Fabienne in Worb, Switzerland

on 4 Sep, 2014

travel time 4 days

distance travelled 1,976 km

My photos

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

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Hongcun Village, aquarelle

travel time 21 days

distance travelled 7,800 km

sent by "886888wht" , Guangzhou, China

Together with Xidi, the Hongcun village became UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.

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Virupaksha Temple is part of the Group of Monuments at Hampi.

travel time 23 days

distance travelled 6,706 km

sent by  Balu, Jamboti, India

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Lake Baikal

travel time 12 days

distance travelled 538 km

sent by Daria, St.Petersburg, Russia

Villages

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Red Bay Basque Whaling Station,
Newfoundland and Labrador

travel time 9 days

distance travelled 5,895 km

sent by Isabelle, Montreal, Ontario

Red Bay is a fishing village in Labrador, notable as one of the most precious underwater archaeological sites in the Americas. Between 1530 and the early 17th century, it was a major Basque whaling area. Several whaling ships, both large galleons and small chalupas, sunk there, and their discovery led to the designation of Red Bay in 2013 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Black Creek Pioneer Village Toronto

travel time 9 days

distance travelled 6,332 km

sent by Taje, Toronto, Ontario

Black Creek Pioneer Village, is an open-air heritage museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The village is a recreation of life in 19th-century Ontario and gives an idea how rural Ontario might have looked in the early-to-mid-19th century.

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Floating village, Malaysia
travel time 39 days
distance travelled 9,173 km
sent by Cindy, Kuala Lumpur

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Courtyard, Kozmodemyansk, Russia
Siberian artist Andrey Timoshenko
travel time 12 days
distance travelled 1,149 km
sent by Damir,  Moscow, Russia

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Peaceful village road.
Nijkerk Veluwe Landscape
travel time 8 days
distance travelled 1,564 km
sent by Rianne, Gouda, Netherlands

Karijoki, Finland

Greetings from Karijoki.
Karijoki is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia region. The population of Karijoki is 1,363 (March 31, 2016) and the municipality covers an area of 185.77 km2 (71.73 sq mi) of which 0.78 km2 (0.30 sq mi) is inland water.  The population density is 7.34/km2 (19.0/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish. 

Karijoki Lutheran church was built in 1812, is is also called Helena's church. According to the legend a girl named Helena extinguished the fire in the church during the Finnish War. The enemy had put the fire under the sacristy. 

The Wolf Cave (Susiluola) is Karijoki’s main attraction for tourists and locals. This is a geological result after million years of climate changes. It consists on a wide horizontal fissure of the rock and it is named after its location on Wolf Mountain (Susivuori). This has a very important impact on the Scandinavian prehistory studies because investigators are convinced that the Neanderthal men habitated this cave.

Peurajärvi

Country life

Dalfsen and Ameland

 Mirjam sent a card from the place where she lives.

Dalfsen is a municipality and a town in the Salland region of the Dutch province of Overijssel.

Postcard shows an old chocolade atelier from year 1625 and  the Catholic Church in Nes on the island of Ameland. Nicole  lives near this island, it takes about 45 min for to get there.

Nes is the second largest village on the island of Ameland, one of the West Frisian Islands in the northern Netherlands. Nes has  become a popular tourist destination, as the place where the ferry from the mainland arrives.

Kyliä ja kirkkoja - Villages and churches



Anna sent this card from Linz

 The card shows an old wooden farmhouse in Bödele in the very west of Austria.

Voralberg is a mountain region next to Swiss border.

Private swap from Anna 

Friedenskirche, Peace Chapel is a tiny church clinging to the edge of a cliff on Mt Stoderzinken near Gröbming. The view from the path must be stunning.

From Ursel

St. Oswald in Bad Kleinkirchheim a small village with typical little church, farmhouses and colorful gardens in the Central Eastern Alps. Bad Kleinkirchheim is a spa and ski resort town.