PORTUGAL

This postcard shows a town near Sines with many beaches.  It is cornered between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mira River.

Thanks csofiatorpes for the card (PT-174114).

ESTONIA

I'm not sure where this photo is from (other than the air :) but it's beautiful.

Thanks Milj for the card (EE-105855).

CZECH REPUBLIC

Týn nad Vltavou is a town in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has approximately 8,200 inhabitants.

Thanks platan for the card (CZ-119553).

RUSSIA

I'm not sure of where this photos if from but it is beautiful.  The sender is from St. Petersburg.

Thanks Yuliya78 for the card (RU-464091).

UKRAINE

Thanks malik for the beautiful card (UA-111789).

JAPAN

This card is of Oirase in Aomori which is located at the northern tip of Honshu Island (the main island of Japan). 

Thanks cirande for the beautiful card (JP-174445).

GERMANY

Thanks Enaira for the card (DE-933381).

BELARUS

From the back of the card:  This shows the Princes Svyatopolk Mirskies Family Vault.  The vault was erected in 1904 by the last titled owners of the castle, dukes Svyatopolk-Mirskies, upon the Modernist design of Academician Robert Marfeld, an architect from Petersburg.  The church stands out of the landscape and is easily the focus of attention owing to its extravagant shape and asymmetric design.  The chamber serves as a peculiar artistic and logical transit from the emphatically monumental architecture of the castle to the intimacy of the landscape park approaching the medieval walls.

Thanks LuckyDemon for the card (BY-188820).

BELARUS

Although this card is from Belarus, it was sent by someone in Russia.

Thanks Irgik for the card (RU-441653).

UKRAINE

This is a photo of the Fountain on the city embankment, Poplavok (Float) restaurant, and Parus (Sail) hotel in the city of Dnipropetrovsk.  This city is Ukraine's third largest city with one million inhabitants.

Thanks Nancyinwonder for the card (UA-85832).

NETHERLANDS

Thanks HendrikPeelen for the card (NL-659774).

TAIWAN

Thanks love82883 for the card (TW-297582).

TURKEY

This is the Theatre of Patara in the ancient city of Patara.  Patara was a flourishing maritime and commercial city on the south-west coast of Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey near the modern small town of Gelemis, in Antalya Province. It is the birth place of St. Nicholas, who lived most of his life in the nearby town of Myra (Demre).

Thanks SihirliFlut for the card (TR-63416).

CHINA

This is a photo describing Buddha.

Thanks wanfei for the card (CN-365897).

I also did a direct swap with a woman from China.  She provided the following cards: Temple of Heaven, Forbbiden City/Imperial City, Great Wall, and Ancient City of Ping Yao.

GERMANY

Although this card is from Germany, it was sent by someone from Finland while on vacation in Berlin.  Berlin is one of the places I'd like to visit someday.

Thanks AriS for the card (FI-1094132).

RUSSIA

Koningsberg was the captial of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945.  Königsberg was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1944 during World War II and was subsequently conquered by the Red Army after the Battle of Konigsberg in 1945. The city was annexed by the Soviet Union according to the Potsdam Agreement and largely repopulated with Russians.

Thanks zommka for the great card (RU-420088).

MALAYSIA

This is one of the Airbus 330 from Malaysia.

Thanks antudegil for the card (MY-64401).

MOLDOVA

My first card from Moldova.  I love all the stamps.

Thanks A2047125 for the card and stamps (MD-5681).

ITALY

This is a view of the center of Padova (Padua).  Padua is the setting for most of the action in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

Thanks universo3000 for the card (IT-134364).

POLAND

Gdansk Oliwa is a train station in Gdansk, Poland. 

Thanks jelonek for the card (PL-212597).

BELARUS

Thanks KatePetruchik for the card (BY-176984).

NETHERLANDS

This is a view of a farmhouse in the Twente region of the Netherlands.  The district of Twente in the eastern Netherlands lies between Salland in the west and the German frontier to the east. Since about 1830 the textile industry of Twente has developed from a traditional cottage industry into the major element in the economy of the region. The spinning and weaving mills and dyeing factories are mostly located in the towns of Enschede, Hengelo, Almelo and Oldenzaal.

Outside these industrial centers Twente is still essentially an agricultural region,

dotted with villages of traditional type and isolated farmsteads.

 

Thanks Conny59 for the card (NL-646093).