Friday 28 November 2014

Let it snow !!!

Today was the first snow of this season. Not much, but enough to bring joy to my soul. Without knowing anything about, a day before I purchased a pack of 3 German postcards winter-themed. I just love this kind of cards and I want to share them with you.

Beringen Church

This card came as a exchange Belgium x World in the forum RR section.
The main picture shows a Neo-Gothic style church called Sint-Pietersbandenkerk
(or St. Peter in Chains) and it is located in Beringen's Market Square.
The small pictures shows
1. Playground Leisure Resort (Recreatieoord "t Fonteintje") - location
2. Watersport Center (Watersportcentrum Paalse Plas) - location
3. Millennium Golf Park (near Watersport Center)
The stamp (2014) looks like the end-of-year gift, with value & year on the green ribbon. Very artistic.

Thank You, Bonnie !

Country: Belgium
Description: Sint-Pietersbandenkerk Church in Beringen, Belgium
Publisher: Unknown (due postcard decorations)
Location: church, playground and watersport center & golf park

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Peace in the Sky

This postcard is a part of the Malay Project called Peace in the Sky who aims to promote a series of flight safety and world peace, especially after tragic MH17 Flight event.
"We would give out specially designed postcards for the people, and encourage them to send it out to their friends and families overseas, or foreign charity organizations that they are closely affiliated with, so that we could extend our wish for flight safety and world peace to every corner in the world". (YB Datuk Liang Teck Meng - Member of the Parliament of Malaysia)
There are other postcards with different design (3 different languages). You can see them all on photo section of the Facebook dedicated page. Also there is a similar design.
I got this card from one of the PostCrossing forum lottery organized by Matthew07.

First row:
1. Vueling (Spain)
2. Air New Zealand (New Zealand)
3. Fiji Airways (Fiji)
4. SriLankan Airlines (Sri Lanka)
5. China Eastern Airlines (China)
6. Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopia)
7. Icelandair (Iceland)
8. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (The Netherlands)
9. Korean Air (South Korea)
10. Vietnam Airlines (Vietnam)
11. Singapore Airlines (Singapore)
12. Transaero Airlines (Russia)

The second row
13. TAP (Portugal)
14. WestJet Airlines (Canada)
15. TAM Airlines (Brazil)
16. Thai Airways (Thailand)
17. Scandinavian Airlines (Sweden, Norway and Denmark)
18. Virgin Atlantic (United Kingdom)
19. Aegean Airlines (Greece)
20. Air Astana (Kazakhstan)
21. Air Canada (Canada)
22. TUI Travel / Thomson (Germany and United Kingdom)
23. ANA All Nippon Airways (Japan)
24. Niki (Austria) - subsidiary of Air Berlin

The third row
25. SwissAir (Switzerland)
26. Aeroflot Russian Airlines (Russia)
27. Turkish Airlines (Turkey)
28. AeroSvit Airlines (Ukraine)
29. S7 Airlines Siberia Airlines (Russia)
30. Aer Lingus (Ireland)
31. Qatar Airways (Qatar)
32. AirAsia (Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Thailand)
33. Air Greenland (Greenland) - subsidiary of Scandinavian Airlines
34. Air China (China)
35. South African Airways (South Africa)
36. Lufthansa (Germany)

The fourth row
37. UNKNOWN
38. Austrian Airlines (Austria) - subsidiary of Lufthansa
39. JetStar Airways (Australia) - subsidiary of Qantas. The JetStar Group conists of JetStar Asia Airways (Singapore), JetStar Japan (Japan), JetStar Pacific Airlines (Vietnam) and JetStar Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
40. Hawaiian Airlines (USA)
42. Gulf Air (Bahrain)
42. Brussels Airlines (Belgium)
43. Finnair (Finland)
44. EVA Air (Taiwan)
45. China Southern Airlines (China)
46. easyJet (United Kingdom)
47. Avianca (Colombia)
48. SilkAir (Singapore) - subsidiary of Singapore Airlines

The fifth row
49. Iberia (Spain)
50. Horizon Air / Alaska Airlines (USA)
51. Kenya Airways (Kenya)
52. Dragonair (Hong Kong) - subsidiary of Cathay Pacific
53. Middle East Airlines (MEA) - Air Liban (Lebanon)
54. UNKNOWN
55. JAL - Japan Airlines (Japan)
56. TigerAir (Singapore)
57. Shenzhen Airlines (China) - subsidiary of Air China
58. Scoot (Singapore) - subsidiary of Singapore Airlines
59. Grand China Air (China). The logo can be found as well on subsidiary companies Hainan Airlines, Lucky Air, Yangtze River Express or Hong Kong Airlines
60. Oman Air (Oman)

The sixth row
61. Spice Jet (India)
62. Continental Airlines (USA)
63. British Airways (United Kingdom)
64. Asiana Airlines (South Korea)
65. Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong)
66. Air Mauritius (Mauritius)
67. Air France (France)
68. Air Seychelles (Seychelles)
69. UNKNOWN
70. Avianca (Brazil)
71. Azul Brazilian Airlines (Brazil)
72. China Airlines (Taiwan)

The seventh row
73. Qantas Airways (Australia)
74. Emirates (United Arab Emirates)
75. Air New Zealand (New Zealand)
76. US Airways (USA)
77. UNKNOWN
78. Garuda Indonesia (Indonesia)
79. IndiGo Airlines (India)
80. jetBlue (USA)
81. Malaysia Airlines (Malaysia)
82. AirTran Airways (USA) - subsidiary of Southwest Airlines
83. Germanwings (Germany) - subsidiary of Lufthansa
84. kulula (South Africa)

The postcard came also with 2 nice stamps.
The 5 sen (ND 2002) shows a Theobroma cacao tree.
The 50 sen (ND 2010) shows Bunga Tiga Bulan flower.

Thank You,  Matthew07 !

Country: Malaysia
Description: Peace in The Sky Project postcard with different airplane tails
Publisher: Persatuan Penggerak Perpaduan Malaysia (PPPM)