Postcard Perfect 005: CN Tower in Toronto

A lovely card by none other than, the owner of the meme's Postcard Perfect...Mommy Willa send me a card showing one of the declared modern Seven Wonders of the World by American Society of Civil Engineers, it also belongs to the World Federation of Great Towers, where it holds second-place ranking.


The CN Tower is a communications and observation tower in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Standing 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) tall, it was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of the Burj Khalifa and Canton Tower. It remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, a signature icon of Toronto's skyline, and a symbol of Canada, attracting more than two million international visitors annually. Its name "CN" originally referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower. Following the railway's decision to divest non-core freight railway assets, prior to the company's privatization in 1995, it transferred the tower to the Canada Lands Company, a federal Crown corporation responsible for real estate development. Since the name CN Tower became common in daily usage, the abbreviation was eventually expanded to Canadian National Tower or Canada's National Tower. However, neither of these names are commonly used. (Source: Wikipedia)

And the card comes with a stamp of a polar bear cub...very lovely and cuddly! *smile*


Linking this card with Postcard Perfect...


Also, joining her mini-give away titled "The Royal Give Away" although I am bit late already but still trying my luck because those prices at stake are really nice...so, visit her page by just clicking the badge below!

PostcardPerfect

Happy Postcrossing, everyone...

Vilshofen an der Donau...

...is a town in the German district of Passau. She said its in Lower Bavaria and situated in the south-east of Germany.


It comes with a beautiful stamp...


The population of Vilshofen is overwhelmingly Christian which now I understand better why one of the stamp is a Feast of Nativity that refers to the accounts of birth of Jesus that we all known as a Christmas Day and it is called Weihnachten in German. In Vilshofen there is a Catholic Church, a Protestant Church and a new Apostolic Church. 78.36% self-identify as Catholic, 10.78% as Protestant and 10.86% as belonging to another Christian denomination.

Thanks so much Jannette for sending me a multi-view card of your place...I bet its lovely to live there!

Happy Postcrossing, everyone!

Bieszczady Mountains...

 ...is the Polish name for a mountain range in the extreme south-east of Poland, extending into Ukraine and Slovakia. A card that send by Ctnia, a high school student and a member of Postcrossing, she said that this is the typical view around her place, kind of full of not so high mountains.


It forms the western part of what is known in Polish as the Eastern Beskids (Beskidy Wschodnie), and is more generally part of the Outer East Carpathians. The mountain range is situated between the Łupków Pass (640 m) and the Vyshkovskyi Pass (933 m). In a narrower but very frequent sense, Bieszczady refers only to the Western Bieszczady or even only to the part of the range lying within Poland.

The highest peak of Bieszczady is Mt. Pikuy (1405 m) in Ukraine. The highest peak of the Polish part is Tarnica (1346 m).

And this card comes with three lovely stamps...that a card of it would be lovely. Thanks so much Ctnia.


Happy Postcrossing, everyone!

Snowy View of Austria...

...send by a Postcrossing member named Berta and she's the number one postcrosser in Austria, a member for 4 years.

And she just wrote "Greetings from Austria"...and hello in their language as "Hallo!" I cannot see any note written or printed in the card saying something about it, so I can search online. How I wish she wrote more but anyway, that's her style but I love the card, received it on summer time and just cool to see her card.

Anyway, I went online to search more about the place. Found out that Austria, officially the Republic of Austria is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,855 square kilometres (32,377 sq mi) and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.(Source: Wikipedia)

It comes with a lovely stamp, enough to make me chirp...*smile*



Happy Postcrossing, everyone!

Return to The First Scene of Taiwan

...ANPING, Tainan City, Taiwan and this card was published by the City Government.


Anping was originally a small island separated from the mainland of Tainan until the 19th century. Due to the ocean current, the small lagoon between Anping island and Tainan was silted up and gradually disappeared, and Anping became a part of Tainan. Tainan City is a city in southern Taiwan. It is the fifth largest after New Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, and Taipei. It was formerly a provincial city, and in 2010, the provincial city merged with the adjacent Tainan County to form a single special municipality. Tainan faces the Taiwan Strait in the west and south. Tainan's complex history of comebacks, redefinitions and renewals inspired its popular nickname "City of the Phoenix." (Source: Wikipedia...here and here)

A fellow postcrosser from Taiwan send this card to me, she mentioned that this is a pretty casual view in her hometown and this card comes together with a lovely stamp


And for more information about the city, you can visit their official website here.

Happy Postcrossing, everyone!

Reading Exercise...

...is the second card that Hennie send for my kids.


Leesplankje / Reading Exercise / Leseübung / Planchette pour exercer la lecture / 20e eeuw / 20th century / Collectie Stedelijk Museum Het Catharina Gasthuis, Gouda / Wolters Noordholf BV/ Art Unlimited 1988

Thanks so much for this lovely card, my son enjoyed reading it...just funny because we cannot pronounced it right. And this lovely reading card comes with a beautiful stamp and sticker...



Happy Postcrossing, everyone!

For My Kids From Holland...

...send by Hennie of Postcrossing! Thanks heaps for thinking of sending extra cards for my two beautiful kids! And this is the first card...


Fliep Westerndorp 1992 / Uit: 'Pluk van de Petteflet', geschreven door Annie M. G. Schimdt / Amsterdam, Em. Querido's Uitgeverij BV., 1991...since she doesn't mentioned anything about the card except for your child...these are the notes printed at the back of the card!

So, I looked for Fiep Westendorp in Google and found out that he was  was a Dutch illustrator who became especially popular due to her long-term collaboration with writer Annie M.G. Schmidt. Three generations of Dutch people have grown up with her illustrations.

And Hennie's card come with beautiful stamp and sticker on it...love it and thanks much!



Happy Postcrossing, everyone!

Sign by Danasoft - For Backgrounds and Layouts