Year of the Horse, Reindeer?, State Hermitage Museum, MoonSelena and a dreaming mouse

Today the mailbox was full…and full of a wide range of postcards plus a bunch of bills…but there were postcards, so it was a good mail day! Mail has been so slow lately…I just looked and it’s been an average of 16 days of travel time for postcards since Christmas…the quickest card arrived in 6 days from New Zealand and the slowest in 66 days from Russia…not sure what’s going on with mail…we sent two parcels, both Air Mail, to Europe. The one to England arrived in less than a week, the one to Germany too an additional 3.5 weeks…and this was AFTER Christmas! And Canada Post wonders why people don’t want to use their services!

Postcard from the United States, from a friend

Postcard from Zabava-zab from Belarus – are those reindeer?

Postcard from Hel from Russia
Description: The Falconet Room with the display of 18th-century French art. My amazing google skillz tell me this room is an exhibit in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. It took some googling…this card also came with a ski stamp for Sochi.

Postcard from stefaniafox from Ukraine

Postcard from Juhi from Ukraine

Red-headed girl and sailboat boy, Church of Saints Simon and Helena and Christmas sheep

Postcard from VencSv from Russia
Description: (translated by VencSv) I wish you happiness! The long-awaited happiness as gifts in childhood and deafening happiness as a drumbeat!

Postcard from EliseevaAnna from Belarus
Description: The Church of Saints Simon and Helena in Minsk. There is a very long description on the back, but it’s not in English. According to Wikipedia, the church has had an interesting history and was not once, but twice, a movie theatre. Today it has been renovated and is once again used as a Catholic Church.

Postcard from Akira_Butterfly from Germany

Castle Tower and hugging friends

Postcard from ElizabethMoiseenok from Belarus.
Description: Niasvizh Farny. Corpus Christi Church. 1593.  Niasvizh Casle tower. XVI century.

Postcard from chrissel from Germany

Slovenian Christmas, Belpost and Japanese road signs

Postcard from dejko from Slovenia

Postcard from SofiyaMinsk from Belarus

Postcard from lycaphe from Japan

Lucky Seven

Seven is a lucky number, right? Well, then we must be having a lucky day because we got seven cards today!

Postcard from furious_forever from Belarus

Postcard from Alfons from Germany
Description: Aachen cathedral
This is an “old” card – the paper is definitely not the kind of postcard stock commonly used now and take a look at the vehicles!

Postcard from lifeofmai from the Netherlands
Description:
Top and bottom left – Kinderdijk
Bottom centre – Tienhoven (Utrecht)
Bottom right – Zaanse Schans

Postcard from Zhuzha-22 from Russia
Description: From the book “Classic Fairy Tales” Puss in Boots

Postcard from ZogStarlene from Florida


Postcard from loiswisch from Texas

Postcard from GerdaZ from Connecticut

Little girl, pink guys, penguin, temple monkeys, and a cat

Postcard from Ritakolos from Belarus

Description: Postcard of Dream

Postcard from boukjelovepostcards from the Netherlands

Postcard from Ajany from Russia

Postcard from srwtm060 from Thailand

Description: Phra Prang Sam Yod

Postcard from burushka from Ukraine

Chocolate, Giraffes, a Cat, London, a Children’s story, and a Bumble Bee

Postcard from Addycyclette from France

Postcard from Mamzelkina from Belarus

Postcard from Curumo from Ukraine

Description: Town and black cat

Postcard from Kristen_Liang from London via Singapore

Postcard from weissdorn from Germany

Description: Illustration by Silvia Christoph

Postcard from lenka-94 from Belarus

Belarus - Fauna of Belarus

Postcard from Nadea from Belarus

Description: Wild boar

What a week - Russia, France and Belarus [part 4/5]

Postcard from bonne-fleur from Russia

Postcard from jean-jacques from France

This card came in French…a reminder of how rusty my French actually is…

Postcard from snezinna from Belarus

Russia, Belarus and the USA:

Postcard from Evgenicheva from Russia

Description: Evenicheva says this is a card from 1955 and it depicts the Russian character based on Pinocchio - Buratino

Postcard from Alideer from Belarus

Postcard from missita from the USA

Description: Alphone Mucha. Friendship. New York, 1904.

Bees, Christmas and Gophers

Postcard from haileytung from Hong Kong

Description: The Adventures of André and Wally B. Concept art by John Lasseter

Postcard from veronika1995 from Ukraine

Postcard from Lesheak from Belarus

Pippi, bunnies and a train: Germany, Belarus and Belgium

Postcard from BirgitLay from Germany

Description: Inger Nilsson als Pippi Langstrumpf vor der Villa Kunterbunt, 1969
Translation: Inger Nilsson as Pippi Longstocking before Villa Kunterbunt, 1969

Postcard from AppleMe from Belarus.

We just got another card like this one two days ago - they're cute!

Postcard from Fairy11 from Belgium

Description: A German steam train made in 1917

Russia and Belarus: Bunnies

Postcard from Flowers05 from Russia

Description: Small Hare in the Bag/ Photo by Victoriya May

Postcard from Oase from Belarus

Full mail box: Malaysia, Belarus, Estonia and Russia

Postcard from irani from Malaysia

Description: Different stages of the turtle life cycle. Adult turtles take about 30 years to mature before they can reproduce. Along the coast of Terengganu, east coast of peninsular Malaysia is the major nesting site for the green and hawksbill turtles.

Postcard from soporific from Belarus

Description: Rabbits

Postcard from Hellen2 from Estonia

Description: Lake Kumakese

Postcard from Yanchikke from Russia

Description: Vera Sibirtseva "Hurrying with Greetings" (batik)

This postcard is also from Yanchikke. It's not an official card, but she saw that I liked a few Northern Lights cards and sent it to me as well.