Post Road

Post Road
200 Years of The Great Post Road (1808 ~ 2008)
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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Postcard from England

The Black Mount, Rannoch Moor between Tyndrum and Glencoe, The Highlands of Scotland. Rannoch Moor is a large expanse of around 50 square miles (130 km2) of boggy moorland to the west of Loch Rannoch in Scotland.
In the Highlander novel, The Element of Fire, Duncan and Connor MacLeod track the antagonist Khordas to Rannoch Moor. There Duncan defeats Khordas female companion Nerissa.
This beautiful postcard was sent by my best correspondent friend Tom Anderson from South Hampton, United Kingdom.


Monday, 26 May 2014

Postcard from Germany

Lower Oder Valley National Park is a shared German-Polish nature reserve. Its comprises the western banks of the Oder river within the Ukcermark district in the German state of Brandenburg as well as the steep eastern banks in the Gryfino and Police counties of the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship further north. This postcard with special stamps and postmark was sent by my best correspondent friend Erhard Molbitz from Postdam, Germany.


Monday, 24 February 2014

Postcard from Serbia

This area was settled as early as the Early Stone Age as witnessed by archaeological finds. At the time of the Celts and the Romans the city was called Taurunum. The Slavs settled it at the beginning of the 9th century and called it Zemlin.


Saturday, 25 January 2014

Postcard from The Netherlands

Delta works in the Zeeland province, south west of Holland, to protect the province against the sea. Every year people from all over the world come to see this project.


Friday, 22 November 2013

Postcard from England

 
Ben Lomond from the Trossachs, near Aberfoyle, Scotland. This beautiful Scotland scenery postcard was mailed by my best friend Tom Anderson.


Saturday, 16 November 2013

Postcard from Malaysia

         Cameron Highlands, Misty Morning at the Sungai Palas Tea Plantation


Postcard from Japan

Ginkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto. It was built as a villa for Shogun Yoshimasa Ashikaga in 1489. The garden is laid out with a pond surrounded by green moss and lanes, with a white sand pile and dais

Postcard from The Philippines

                               Batad's amphitheater-like rice terraces


Postcard from Ukraine

              Mountain range Svydovets, on the slopes of Mount Stara (1472 m)