Omran sent me several nice cards from Tripoli last month; while I was able to blog about his postcard of a Libyan woman at Girls Go Postal!, I haven’t had a chance to post any of the others. But Evelyn’s A Festival of Postcards, 7th Edition provides a great opportunity to post two well-lit landmarks. Pictured above [...]
This postcard (with matching stamp, no less) arrived recently from Emi in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Naturally, she is very proud of this local landmark, Matsue Castle, one of the few remaining medieval castles in Japan, and the only one to retain its original wood form. (The rest of the castles have been preserved by casting [...]
This is one of a set of postcard scenes of Anatolia that I picked up in Turkey, around 1990. It shows a night scene of the castle on Güvercin Adası (goo-vair’-jin ah’-da-suh, “Dove Island”), which is really a peninsula off the Aegean resort town of Kuşadası (koosh-ah’-da-suh, “Bird Island”), Turkey.
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