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Category: Postcards

Here’s a collection of the most interesting, breath-taking or simply unusual postcards that I’ve found around the world, one postcard posted weekly. Covering the walls of all the various rooms I’ve lived in, in all of the various countries, a growing number of postcards have followed me around, always reminding me of past adventures. Hence the name of this blog.

Postcard of the Week: The Jurassic Coast

The Jurassic Coast sounds dramatic. It sounds intriguing. It sounds fictional, as if a local mayor with a rather overactive imagination is trying to jazz up his borough’s name to […]

Postcard of the Week: Malta

         A couple of weeks ago I visited Malta for the first time. Malta is a small nation of just 423,000 inhabitants in an enviable position south […]

Postcard of the Week: Ireland

           The 2014 summit of One Young World was held in Dublin a few weeks ago (read my pre-OYW blog post here). It was actually my […]

Postcard of the Week: Istanbul

         For 2 or so years of my childhood, my sister and I had an au pair from Istanbul. Over the years we had several au pairs, […]

Postcard of the Week: Dorset

        The mysterious castle shrouded in mist in this postcard is Corfe Castle, in the Purbeck Countryside in Dorset. A few weekends ago I popped down to […]

Postcard of the Week: Vienna

         This week’s postcard from Vienna comes courtesy of my lovely former housemate and fellow italophile Jess. We first met while au pairing near Rome in between […]