Sent card #45

My 45th address was in the Netherlands ... oddly enough, having sent what feels like a lot of cards there ;-) this was the first time I'd be sending to Amsterdam. So that was cool, because A'dam is a great city and I've really enjoyed all my visits there.

Laura is interested in various things to do with art and culture and folklore and traditional crafts ... that set me to thinking and I dug this card out of my stash. It seemed to be perfect for Laura. :-)

This card shows a detail from one of the most magnificent items that were found in the Oseberg ship grave - a decorated bucket. :-) It's from ca 830 AD. A beautiful work of art.

I sent the card on January 11th, it had 914 kilometers to travel and arrived after seven days, on January 18th. Laura liked it a lot, so yay. :-)

Sent card #35

My 35th card went to the Netherlands again. Loes lives in Leeuwarden (Mata Hari's home town ;-) and has a really great profile on Postcrossing. :-) Not sure I can explain why but I really like her profile. :-) She's a pretty new user and my card would be the first PX card she'd receive; I got her address on December 21st; I requested an address right after Loes' first sent card had been registered as received by AnnaR in Finland. I love watching the Postcrossing system in action like that. :-) It's the third time this has happened to me and I think it's so great every time. :-)

I sent Loes one of my own creations from moo.com. I hoped she'd like it. :-)

I sent the card on December 22nd. It had 805 kilometers to travel and took a long time to get there - 16 days! It arrived on January 6th. But I guess the Christmas rush may have played a part there. :-)

Received card #25

My 25th card arrived from the Netherlands on December 16th, but I couldn't register it till the next day because my computer had a bug and was in the shop. :-( It was a lovely card though - all about chocolate, which both I and the sender, Maud from Leek, absolutely love. :-) At first I thought the card was from a place I had visited myself, the Chocolate Museum in Brussels ... but a closer examination revealed that it was from the Chocolate Museum in Bruges, where I have not been. Those Belgians ... ! :-D

The card was sent on December 8th and traveled 797 kilometers in eight days.

Sent card #34

My 34th card went to the Netherlands again. Lots of Dutch people on PX. :-) Jacoba was a new member, and now that I've learned to 'read' the site properly I could tell exactly what had happened ... she had signed up and requested an address, sent the card and then just waited. The card took 13 days to arrive, and just after its recipient, Chigusa from Japan, had registered it, I requested an address, and Jacoba's was at the top of the list. :-) My card was the first ever Postcrossing card she'd receive. How cool is that. :-)

Jacoba lives in Britsum, which is either in Leeuwarden or very close to it - and she wanted to see a picture from my area. She also wanted to know what a tourist to my town should be sure not to miss. I sent this card with a picture of one of the many granite statues in the Vigeland Park, and told her something about the park on the card.

I sent the card on December 13th. It had 805 kilometers to travel and made the journey in six days to arrive on December 19th. Jacoba's first Postcrossing card, and she really liked it. She said she'll be sure to visit the Vigeland Park if she ever comes to Oslo. ;-)

Received card #15

My 15th card arrived on November 4th - again, a great Postcrossing day. Three cards on the same day. :-) This one came from Carlijn in Leiden (which I had in fact heard of! :-). She'd chosen a card with a famous painting by the celebrated Dutch painter Jan Vermeer, and she thought I might have seen the movie inspired by this painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring. Indeed I have, and I've read the book too - both are very good. :-)

The card was sent on October 31st, and it traveled 945 kilometers in four days to reach me. :-)

Received card #11

My 11th card came from Hoogland in the Netherlands. Another Dutch town I'd never heard of. :-) Floor sent me a card with a pretty and evocative and very Dutch image ... she thought it fitted the season - almost Halloween. :-)

According to Floor, the three best things to see in Hoogland are the local zoo (which I think may be some kind of petting zoo?), the St Joris church and its tower, and the town wall. Ooh, I love town walls. I wish Oslo had one. :-)

This card was sent on October 27th, and it covered its 925-kilometer journey in three days.

Update: As we see from the comments on this post, Amersfoort Zoo is a regular zoo with lots of different animals (some of them extremely cute! ;-) - visit them online here. :-)

Sent card #11

My 11th sent card went to the Netherlands again - to Winsum in the north. Janine didn't have a lot of information on her profile - she likes music and horses, but I didn't have any cards with either of those :-) - so I sent a card that I would have liked to receive myself. Do unto others, etc, and you can't go wrong. :-)

I sent the card on October 17th; it traveled 776 kilometers in five days to arrive on October 22nd.

Received card #4

The fourth card I received came from Nico in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht in the Netherlands. A place I'd never heard of. :-) I have been to the Netherlands several times, though. Nico wrote that the weather was bad there on the day he sent the card - it was windy and rainy. So taking that into consideration I think I preferred crisp and sunny Norway just then. ;-)

The card was sent on October 12th, and it traveled 975 kilometers to reach me three days later, on October 15th.

Sent card #2

My second card went to Willeke - wvl on Postcrossing - in Goirle in the Netherlands. She's been a member only a few weeks longer than me. :-) She said she's interested in sayings from various countries, so I shared a Norwegian one fitting for the season - 'there's no such thing as bad weather, there's only inappropriate clothing'. :-)

I sent the card on October 5th. It travelled 999 kilometers, taking two days to arrive on October 7th.