Philippines - Food

This card arrived July 29, 2026 

Marianne sent this card and wrote a friendly note telling me what each food on the front is. That was it!

She said from the upper left corner  to right clockwise there is: lecon, palabok, tinola, lumpia, bistek, karekane, pritong isda, kinilaw, hipon, sinigang. (Any misspellings are probably mine due to misreading her handwriting.)

Spain - View Card

 July 17, 2026

Nuria sent this card of the Canary Islands. She put a soccer player sticker on the back, which didn't leave much room for her to write a message. 

She just said, " Tomorrow we play against Portugal and he [indicating the sticker of Nico Williams] is a really good player!"

This is the stamp she used .....

Spain - Mallorca

July 8, 2026

This card arrived from Lisa. She said she's from Germany but was on vacation in Mallorca. She visited a city with her family as a child and then showed her boyfriend around yesterday. She sent her best regards.

These are the stamps that Lisa used on the card. I like them!

 

Netherlands - Transportation

 July 8, 2026

Martijn sent this colourful train card from The Netherlands. He said that he was reading Les Misérables by Victor Hugo and a comic at the moment.

He used an interesting stamp on the card too, although it is a little hard to see through the postmark!

Writer - Black & White Card

Germany   

July 8, 2026

Dany sent this card of German author Bettina von Arnim who lived from 1785-1859. I looked her up but her Wiki wasn't very positive towards her. 

Dany said that she studied Linguistics so she's interested in anything to do with languages and texts, and books. She said that von Arnim wrote about social and feministic topics in the 19th century. Her face even adorned banknotes and stamps!

Bettina von Arnim

There were some cute stamps on the card as well. 

Books - Netherlands and Germany

July 6, 2026

Leah sent this card from Germany. She wrote about her town and her favourite movie [The Blind Side] as she loves the message and how loyalty and love is portrayed.

I've read about 5 of these novels, how about you?

She also asked me what my favourite Jason Statham movie was....I have a few, I like Spy as he's hilarious in it and I also like The Transporter because the action is very cool. 

July 8, 2026

Anneke sent this from the Netherlands and mentions that she lives near the Belgian border. She notes that the stamps show writers from the Netherlands.

 

France -Crown Jewels

 July 3, 2026

Mik sent me this card from France....I believe that the crown on the front is part of the British Crown Jewels. 

He said that he had an aunt with the same first name as me, and wished me the best with a Japanese man. [What does that even mean? We've been together for almost 25 years.] And then mentioned that his son nearly married a Japanese woman! (Shades of Bridget Jones' Diary?)

He sends his best!

St. Edward's Crown with which the Sovereign is crowned.

The stamps he used were rather interesting as well. Apologies for putting it on sideways, I just wanted to show off the stamp more!