Belarusian Easter Postcard

I know Easter has been gone for a while now, but I'm eager to post a few things about this postcard received in Holiday Card RR (E55/2). It shows a colored kulich (a spongy yeast cake that is traditionally baked for Easter Sunday in Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Western Russia) and dyed red Easter Eggs, near a white blossomed tree and willow catkin branches.
The text "Са Святам Пасхi!" (which means Happy Easter in Belorussian) is written in golden color, the same used in the folk motive on the right.
The Postcrossing stamp (designed by Inga Turlo) was issued in 2014. The Letter N is equal to the surface tariff of a postcard abroad Belarus. More information about the stamp can be found either on Belpost site or on Postcrossing blog.

Thank you, Alena !

Country: Belarus
Description: Easter kulich and eggs
Publisher: Belpost / Belposhta (2015)

Peach. The Airline

Yesterday I've received a very nice aviation themed card from the Land of the Rising Sun. Till now, I've never heard of Peach Avitation. They are a low-cost airline company founded 4 years ago, headquartered and operating mainly in Japan. Their fleet consist of 14 Airbus A320-214 aircrafts, two of them featured in the card (JA807P, in the closer plan).
The card came with two stamps and aviation-themed washi tape decoration.
The 18 ¥ (designed by Hoshiyama Ayaka) was issued this year and shows different food types from Japan.
The 52 ¥ (designed by Kaifuchi Junko) bears no year (but issued in 2014) and shows a blossom tree.

Thank You, marimo !

Country: Japan
Description: Airbus A320-214 (JA807P)
Publisher: unknown (perhaps Peach Aviation)

Blue Bicycle

Another great card from Lithuania received in April Surprise RR. As you can see, the composition is quite simple: a blue girl bike under a tree on an autumn/spring alley. But enough to be a part in my bicycle & ski collection.
The stamps are from 2015.
The 0.03 € is a part of the set of the 6 stamps from the series Vytis, the Symbol of the Emblem of the Lithuanian State, feature Vytis found on various coins starting from denarii issued in the Great Duchy of Lithuania in the years 1388-1390.
The 0.71 € features the European otter (Lutra lutra) inscribed into the Red List of Lithuania (endangered species).

Thank You, Vaida !

Country: Lithuania

Description: blue bicycle under a tree on an autumn/spring alley

Publisher: Nieko Rimto

Photo: Fotopastelės

Santa Cena

Orthodox Easter is very close now. Yesterday we celebrated Maundy Thursday so this card came quite in time, part of a specific forum RR exchange (Easter Cards - E56). The card shows one of Jaime Huguet's paintings called Santa Cena (or Last Supper). This was a part of an altarpiece, commissioned in the 15th century by the guild of tanners to be placed on the altar of the Augustinian friary of Sant Agustí Vell ("Old St Augustine") in Barcelona, Spain.
The stamps are Dutch, since the card was send from Netherlands.
The 2002 (ND) dark-rose shows a multiple NL text and have the value of 2 euro-cents.
The 2014 blue stamp shows one of Dutch symbols: a windmill, part of a bigger series similar to the one I've blogged about here.
The 2010 white stamp shows Middelburg buildings (part of Beautiful Netherland series) and have a value of 0,44 €.

Thank You Tobia !

Country: Spain (but sent from The Netherlands)
Description: Jaime Huguet - Santa Cena 1463-1470/1475
Location:  Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña (here)
Publisher: Escudo de Oro

for a friend

This simple, BUT great postcard came from Lithuania, as a surprise in March 2015 RR.

As I've seen from author's website, she prefers shallow depth of field, one of my favorites in photography domain.

The postcard came with a 0.75 € stamp (created by the artist Tomas Dragūnas) showing the new Lithuanian euro coin (2015) in front of the national flag.

Thank You, Vaida !

Country: Lithuania

Description: a glass of red wine on the table

Publisher: Favorite Postcard

Photo: Jelena Kaplevska

Taka Bonerate National Park

This is my first official card from Indonesia. It shows a glimpse of Taka Bonerate National Marine Park, included on UNESCO Tentative List (no. 2005). The National Park (made of 15 islands) is considered to contain some of the world's highest marine biodiversity. According to the Indonesian Department of Forestry the atoll has 261 species of coral, 295 species of coral fish, 244 species of mollusk and other species such as hawks-bill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), Pacific ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) and green turtle (Chelonia mydas).
The card came with two 2014 beautiful stamps:

The 5.000 shows the bridge of Kelok Sembilan (or Kelok 9), an amazing meandered road located 30 km east of Payakumbuh, West Sumatra.
The 3.000 shows a hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), a critically endangered animal. Underneath there is a special cancellation stamp (Jakarta, 05 November 2014).

Thank You, Sinta !

Country: Indonesia

Description: Taka Bonerate underwater corals and wild life

Location: here

Publisher: Heritage Postcards