Five card in my mail-box

On Monday I founded five card in my post-box! It is my record! By registering the cards I try to read the post stamps and I register them in chronological order of sending. The first card is from China. I'm sorry because of the sender didn't write me about him. I read his profile, therefore I know he is a 18 years old boy. On the card are all words in Chinese. I don't know where this beautiful cave can be found.

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There are three stamps on the card. Two bird species of China and a lotus (Nelumbo).

From the Netherlands I received an Atelier Nouvelles card. I like this multiple style card. On of my friends learn France and she translated the text. There are delicatessen and accessories of a Butcher’s Shop on the card. Some picture are funny!

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Also the stamp is interesting on this card. It is a long description on it about Maarten van der Weijden (born  1981), a Dutch long distance and marathon swimmer. He won the gold medal in the 10 km open water marathon race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. 

This great Art Nouveau card came from the United Kingdom. The sender bought it in Riga, Latvia. It must be a window of the building in Alberta iela 2a, Riga. I like it!

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A great stamp is on this card. Mrs. Gamp (Sarah or Sairey Gamp) was a nurse in the novel "The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit", written by Charles Dickens and first published as a serial in 1843-1844. She was dissolute and drunk and became a notorious stereotype of the bad secular nurse in the early Victorian era, before the reforms of campaigners like Florence Nightingale. I didn't read this novel but I like the stamp!

The two last card s are from Germany. On the both are figures of the Harry Potter movies. On the first one is one of my favourites, Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. Michael Gambon played Dumbledore in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part 2. This scene is in the movie "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".

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The stamp was issued on the 50 anniversary of "Élysée Treaty". Treaty of Friendship, was concluded by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer on January 22, 1963. It set the seal on reconciliation between France and Germany. With it, Germany and France established a new foundation for relations that ended centuries of rivalry between them.

The other Harry Potter card is a picture of  Draco Lucius Melfoy (Tom Felton) and his friends, Vincent Crabbe  (Jamie Waylett) and Gregory Goyle (Josh Herdman). 

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On the stamp is medieval centre of Regensburg (Germany), a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Two beautiful view cards

Yesterday I received two cards.  I was very sleepy and I registered them only today. The first one cam from Toruń, Poland. I didn't hear the name of Toruń before. I have searched it in Wikipedia. It is a city (bigger than Szeged) in northern Poland, on the Vistula River. Toruń, unlike many other historic cities in Poland, escaped substantial destruction in World War II. Particularly left intact was the Old Town, all of whose important architectural monuments are originals, not reconstructions. In 1997 the medieval part of the city was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city is famous for having preserved almost intact its medieval spatial layout and many Gothic buildings, all built from brick, including monumental churches, the Town Hall and many burgher houses. Toruń is the birthplace of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. A lovely Christmas stamp was on this card.

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The second card was sent from Italy. The Oropa Sanctuary was also unknown to me before. It must be a beautiful place too. This Sanctuary in the Alps (at 1200 m) is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The Sanctuary was founded in the 4th century by St. Eusebio, the first bishop of Vercelli. On the card is the Museum of the Treasures. In this building gold pieces, jewels, liturgical vestments and documents are exhibited. I need some minutes to understand the picture on the stamp. It is a great suggestive dawning! Two embracing people symbolise the European Year of Volunteering (2011). 

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