This Official Postcrossing card comes from Spain! Shown here is the Sanctuary of Our-Lady of the Fuensanta, a Roman Catholic church located in Algezares, a village in the region of Murcia (southeastern Spain). This church was built in 1694 upon the site of the remains of a medieval chapel, and […]
This Official Postcrossing card arrived from Germany! This beautifully designed postcard gives a shout-out to the medical workers of Rhineland-Palatinate, a state located in the southwestern part of the country, as well as to all health workers in general. The past two years have been extraordinarily tough for a lot […]
I got this Official Postcrossing card from Wisconsin! At first I thought this was a standard painting card and anticipated trying to find the original painter. Turns out it’s actually from a set of cards featuring pulp magazine covers! Pulp magazines are fiction magazines that were printed on cheap pulp […]
Another Official Postcrossing card from Russia today! This one shows a neat little postbox based in New Zealand. This one looks a bit more antiquated than its modern counterparts, which have flat tops and remind me a lot of old Coca-Cola vending machines. While the design of this postbox is […]
This one is another Official Postcrossing card from Russia! This one shows the city of Kursk, located on the far west side of the country, roughly 100 km away from the Ukrainian border. This city is considered to be a religious and cultural center of Russia, and its existence is […]
Here is an Official Postcrossing card from Russia! This is a work of art featured at The State Museum of the History of Religion, located in Saint Petersburg. This museum was opened in 1932 and contains around 200,000-250,000 exhibition pieces, dating as far back as ancient times. The focus of […]
I got this awesome DIY postcard from a dear friend in Indonesia! This was made using the packaging of a premium card set of Dragon Ball Z cards, and was just too darn neat to throw out. So she offered to send me a handmade card using one of the […]
Here’s a card that made me smile (and then attempt a gurn)! This Official Postcrossing card is from the United Kingdom! This is kind of a maxicard-style postcard featuring the World Gurning Championships, which I had absolutely no idea existed, for 1.) I didn’t know what “gurning” was, and 2.) […]
This Official Postcrossing postcard is from Wisconsin! This features a painting by Michael Sowa, a German painter and illustrator born in 1945. Sowa is known for his surreal, kind of cartoon-like style, and has done works for things like books, magazine covers, and musical album covers. For some reason the […]
Check out this Official Postcrossing card from Russia! This intriguing illustration is known as a star chart (or star map… or celestial map, sky map, sky chart… you get the idea…), and it’s what you would expect a star chart to be – a chart showing the stars in the […]