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Monday, February 13, 2017

SINGAPORE - The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes

The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes since 1988 by father Joachim Alexander Marie Meneuvrier. Thanks to Kay Jun for the card.

POLAND - Mt Sniezka, Karkonosze Mountain

"Moonscape" - the chapel on the top of Mt. Sniezka (1603 meters), Poland. Thanks to Kasia for the card.

AUSTRALIA Maxicard - L is for ...

Many thanks to Michelle for the maxicard.

Fair Dinkum: Aussie Alphabet part 2

On 16 August 2016, part two of the Fair Dinkum Aussie Alphabet stamp series will be released. Once again, Artist Gavin Ryan has created some highly amusing and quintessentially ocker scenes, based on each letter of the alphabet.

Within each stamp-sized scene, there are places, products, lexicon, cultural icons and native fauna beginning with the featured letter.

Part One, released on 1 March 2016 featured the letters N, Q, S, V and W (to represent five of the six Australian states). This time it’s A, C, L, R, T. That means it’s Tassie’s turn! As well as Tarquin the tradie, you’ll cross paths with angry Aaron the Aussie Rules aficionado, and cautious couple Cheryl and Claude. Plus, there’s a lamington being lobbed, a crazy cockatoo and a chummy crocodile to contend with.

While you feel you may have caught everything, a second glance may bring something else to light …

A is for… Aussie Rules, Adelaide, ant, Anzac memorial …
C is for… Canberra, cockatoo, crocodile, campfire, couple…
L is for… Lace Monitor, lyrebird, lamington, log, lounge …
R is for… refrigerator, rugby, reel, rope, Red Centre, ruler…
T is for…Tasmania, tinnie, tradie, Tasmanian Devil, two-up …

So have a Captain Cook for some hidden Australiana, and keep your eyes peeled for part three of the Fair Dinkum Aussie alphabet.

PHILIPPINES - The Banaue Rice Terraces

The Banaue Rice Terraces are considered as 2,000 year old terraces that were whittled into the mountains of Ifugao Province in the Philippines Cordilleras by ancestors of the Batad native people. Considered as "Eight Wonder of the World", these fields are stretching like steeping stones to the sky, which are situated about 1,500 meters above sea level and cover 4,000 square miles of mountainside. The Rice Terrace Fields has been built largely by hand with hand tools and animal power. They are feed by an ancient irrigation system from the rainforests above the terraces.

Thanks to Darawisan for the card.

Friday, February 10, 2017

COVER - Indonesia

Thanks to Lia for FDC and MS.

GERMANY - Burg Glelberg/Castle of Glelberg

Thanks to Vlad for the Burg Glelberg card.

"Burg Gleiberg consists of the Oberburg, which was largely destroyed in the 30 years of the War up to the Bergfried, and the gastronomic Unterburg. The first fortification in the Oberburg, a quadrangular residential tower, was built around the year 1000. The Unterburg was built in the 16th century."

FDC - Indonesia, Flora & Fauna

Thanks to Lia for the FDC.

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

POLAND - Powroznik

Wooden Orthodox Church (Tserkva) dedicated to St. James The LESS in Powroznik (Lesser Poland Viovodeship, Cracow Region) built in 1604 (beginning of the 17th Century). Thanks to Agnes for the 9th card.