About all the mail I got during last week :)

Ok, so as my friend says, "I've been too lazy to write anything here :)" It's really about me!
Maybe I'll start with the mail I wrote. So, this weekend was rather productive for me and I managed to write 2 letters - to Poland and Netherlands and I also promised to post them. Well, not yet :) hope to do it tomorrow! So, now I have 3 letters from Poland and one from Ukraine in my pile. Not so many! :)
As for the mail I got it's much to tell, really. On February, 11 I got a lovely card from my pen-friend Ksenia. She sent it from Malmo, a Swedish town, where she spent some hours before going to Iceland :)
The card is lovely, and I love multi-view cards. Don't know why, but many people hate getting these cards. I don't mind really!
This is the card I got:

The same day I got another card from my friend Onno. It is the picture of a Belgian artist James Ensor "The Sea Shells". I simply like cards with shells so knowing this he sends me such cards rather often.

Unfortunately, after 3 weeks of traveling I didn't get the letter from my friend Aneta. She included 2 cards and stamps as well, but I never got them. Maybe someone stole it? I wonder where all the lost mail goes? Anyway, I got the scan of the letter she posted by e-mail. We still hope that the letter finds its way to me.
And today I got another lovely letter from Ksenia, which travelled only 8 days and was sent from... Iceland.
She spent several lovely days in this magical country.
With the letter I got 3 beautiful cards: one showing Reykjavik, of course! and 2 more with Belgium (hope to visit some towns showed in the card in summer! :) and Luxembourg (curious how it will be with this country as well!).

Meanwhile, I got a lot of postcrossing cards! The week was really rich in countries: Russia, China, Czech Republic, Estonia, France and Germany. Only some of them...

This is a traditional Lithuanian dessert baked in a special oven for special events only. It is called "shakotis". I tasted it only once I think and it was in Poland. There it is called "sękacz" and it's very tasty!!!!!

Estonian card brought me back into summer!

I think this card with trains we'll be admitted by one of my friends, who loves traveling so much! ;)

But the best card of the week was my 1st card ever from Tunisia. It made my day, or even my week!
I like it so much!

OK, so my blog will be continued... hope to write something this week, and thanks to my friend who keeps me motivated ;)

Some mail I got and sent / Double cards

Well, several days passed... I got some cards and posted some.

Today I got a nice card from Louisiana showing Tennessee. This made me happy, because I missed this card together with 4 more states of the USA.

On the weekend I got cards from Finland and the Netherlands. The 2nd one turned out to be my double card. Yes, sometimes I get double cards! Though I like it anyway, as it shows my favorite subject - trains. Finnish card shows a ship. 

On Friday I got the letter from my Polish friend Kama. She sent a lovely letter and told me all her news. I managed to write 2 letters: to Italy and Denmark. Both will be posted tomorrow! 

Somehow I even found nice stamps at the post-office. 

And today I also got the letter from my friend Agnieszka. She sent 2 beautiful cards (one of which also turned to be double) and a letter.

Last but not least... I am overexcited and happy today as I got to know that my favorite band BLUE are having tour 2015 around Europe in autumn. Hope to get tickets and have fun there!

Greta Garbo and Czech landscapes...

I thought that today I'd get some letters. Well, I have 4 letters which I have to reply, but snail mail lovers know that there are no too many letters!
Instead I got 2 nice cards from postcrossing. One is a brilliant card with famous actress Greta Garbo (it came from Slovenia). 

The other is from Czech Republic.
The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape (also Lednice-Valtice Area or Lednice-Valtice Complex, Czech:Lednicko-valtický areál) is a cultural-natural complex of 283,09 km² in the Czech Republic, South Moravian Region, close to Břeclav and Mikulov.
The Lednice-Valtice Area is registered in the list of monuments protected as World Heritage by UNESCO next to another site – Pálava Landscape Protected Area, registered by UNESCO only a few years prior to the nearby Pálava Biosphere Reserve. Such close proximity of two landscape systems protected by UNESCO is world-unique.

Hope tomorrow I will have some nice mail to share with you!

Surprises and Coincidence!

A few words about mail I sent and got today!

First of all, I posted 4 cards that I got addresses yesterday. There were no surprises at all as I sent to Russia, Lithuania, the Ukraine and Finland. 

Hope receivers will like what I chose for them!
And as for postcards I received today ... the day is full of surprises!
I got a lovely card from my pal Ksenia. She sent it from Israel where she spent several days. This card is absolutely lovely and bright, the stamp is nice as well, though I didn't take a photo of it. 

Finally, I got something official from postcrossers! :)

Actually, I was waiting for my 700th postcard to come, but I didn't expect that today I would get 5 postcards! So, also my 700th card came today and now I have 701 received postcards. I am happy! 

I got a nice card from the Netherlands. It is a bike with tulips. The card is called "Tulips for Sale" and it is the work of Tjalf Sparnaay. I like tulips (they are my favorite flowers) and I like bikes on postcards. It may be funny, but I can't ride a bike :) Shhh, do not tell anyone!

One German card made my day. It is so optimistic and really helps feel good during these short and dull days. The card says "Don't take the life so hard to live, a strawberry cake helps a lot there!" So true! ;)

Also two Lithuanian postcards made their way to me. One depicts Kernave Mounds, where wooden castles of Litnuanian Royals stood and the card is written in Polish which I really appreciate! Diana who sent it works as a translator in Vilnius. What I especially like is a new stamp connected with the euro introduction in Lithuania. Here it is 

 The other card is just a cute card in a retro style.

The card I liked most of all comes from France ;)

It seems to be my 700th postcard! The person who sent it works in a huge bookshop in France... Lille! ;) Ksenia, I'd really want to see your comments here ;) 

Maybe it is a sign, not just coincidence?!

So, this was my day, full of mail and nice surprises!

Stats, Exotic Countries and Hurrays! :)

Where to start?

I think I have to start from stats for January as my friend bet I am in Top 10 of Belarus in postcrossing :) I wish I were but currently I am at place 127 by sent cards and 121 by distance (I ended 2014 with almost the same: 126/121). So, I fell down a bit. Though it's not so bad, as I had a look at my stats in the very beginning! Then, in 2010/ August I was on 1451/1590 places :) 

Hope this month I'll be able to go up and up. February has just started but already 4 sent cards reached their addresses: 2 went to Russia, and one to Estonia and Finland. 

Also I posted 6 cards today, all of them official. They went to Russia, Philippines, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and... for the 1st time I sent my card to a faraway island somewhere between Madagascar and Mauritius. Yes, to Reunion! Hope it will be faster than I expect! I was so excited to get a new country!

These are the cards I posted:

and some of the stamps I used:

Hopefully, tomorrow my mailbox will be happy and full of mail: postcards as well as letters from my dear pen-pals.

And now I am gonna get some more addresses to post cards to...

A Small Stock of Stamps and One Sent Letter

It's not so easy for me to post a letter)

Today I finally posted the letter to my friend Anna in Poland. I haven't heard from her for quite a long time but she finally sent me her letter with all the good news she got. I was happy to get it and though I wrote her a reply one week ago, I had no stamps and also didn't go to the post-office, so I managed to send it today, on a sunny lovely morning.

Also I bought some stamps :) well, it's just a small amount that will be enough for only 10 postcards to send )) I want to send more postcards on postcrossing but sometimes I can't go to the post-office or buy stamps.

Anyway, today I am gonna take several addresses and make some people happy!))

It's interesting what current place in Belarus I have by sent cards :) Will know it probably tomorrow, as they send statistics on the first days of month. I bet I didn't improve it a lot, as I was really not active this month, we'll see... 

And tomorrow I'll surely show you what cards I chose and maybe I'll even get some mail to share with you...