Cover#191 India, Cover with minisheet,

Sent:12/05/2016

Arrived: 30/05/2016

Thank you Pdotk!

Cover#190 Japan, Letter writing day 1990 MS,

Another good-job of Japanese post reached my home. ^_^!

Sent: 20/05/2016

Arrived: 27/05/2016

Thank you so much Masako!

Cover#189 Czech, First mail to my new address,

Today I got my first mail to my new address. Well, I use the both.

Sent: 16/5/2016

Arrived: 24/5/2016

Thank Trung!

Cover#188 Czech, EUROPA 2016: Think Green,

This one from Czech Post is commun designe for all countries which participate to release EUROPA 2016: think green stamp.

Sent:09/05/2016

Arrived: 23/05/2016

Thank Trung!

PC#157 Australia, UNESCO site: Macquarie Island;

The dog is so cute with the smile.

Sent: 22/4/2016

Arrived: 9/5/2016

Macquarie Island

UNESCO site
Date of Insscription: 1997

Brief synthesis

Macquarie Island lies almost 1,500 kilometres to the southeast of Tasmania, about half-way between Australia and Antarctica. The property includes Macquarie Island, Judge and Clerk Islets 11 kilometres to the north, the Bishop and Clerk Islets 37 kilometres to the south, rocks, reefs and the surrounding waters to a distance of 12 nautical miles. The main island is approximately 34 kilometres long and 5.5 kilometres wide at its broadest point, covering an area of approximately 12,785 hectares. The property covers an area of 557,280 hectares.

Macquarie Island has outstanding universal value for two reasons. First, it provides a unique opportunity to study, in detail, geological features and processes of oceanic crust formation and plate boundary dynamics, as it is only place on earth where rocks from the earth’s mantle (6 kilometres below the ocean floor) are being actively exposed above sea level. These unique exposures include excellent examples of pillow basalts and other extrusive rocks. Second, its remote and windswept landscape of steep escarpments, lakes, and dramatic changes in vegetation provides an outstanding spectacle of wild, natural beauty complemented by vast congregations of wildlife including penguins and seals.

Source: unesco.org

Thank you so much Xue!

Cover#187 Slovenia, Leucojum flower cover;

This one, Leucojum, is one of my favorite flowers. The first time I saw it in real life was in the front yard of my dormitory in France. I must say I fall in love with this flower immediatly. The pure white of flowers emerges on the grey and deep green surrounding. Unfortunatly, this type cannot be planted in Vietnam.

Sent:28/4/2016

Arrived: 9/5/2016

Thank you so much Mateja to recall me about a nice memorie.

Cover#186 Czech, New definitive stamp on cover,

Sent: 27/4/2016

Arrived: 6/5/2016

Thank you Trung!

PC#156 Switzerland, UNESCO site: Monte San Giorgio;

Sent: 15/4/2016

Arrived: 4/5/2016

Monte San Giorgio

UNESCO site
Date of Insscription: 2003

Brief synthesis

The pyramid-shaped, wooded mountain of Monte San Giorgio beside Lake Lugano is regarded as the best fossil record of marine life from the Triassic Period (245 – 230 million years ago). The sequence records life in a tropical lagoon environment, sheltered and partially separated from the open sea by an offshore reef. Diverse marine life flourished within this lagoon, including reptiles, fish, bivalves, ammonites, echinoderms and crustaceans. Because the lagoon was near to land, the fossil remains also include some land-based fossils including reptiles, insects and plants. The result is a fossil resource of great richness.

Criterion (viii): 

Monte San Giorgio is the single best known record of marine life in the Triassic period, and records important remains of life on land as well. The property has produced diverse and numerous fossils, many of which show exceptional completeness and detailed preservation. The long history of study of the property and the disciplined management of the resource have created a well documented and catalogued body of specimens of exceptional quality, and are the basis for a rich associated geological literature. As a result, Monte San Giorgio provides the principal point of reference, relevant to future discoveries of marine Triassic remains throughout the world.

Source: unesco.org

Thank you Ania!

PC#155 Aland, Greetings from Postallove,

 Many postcrossers collect official Greetings from Postallove cards from different countries. I am not a fan of Gf but it's really excited to get this type of card.
My first one arrived from Aland Islands. It is also the first card I got from this awesome tiny island.

Sent:13/4/2016

Arrived: 4/5/2016

Thank you Nina!

PC#154 Austria UNESCO site: Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape

Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape

UNESCO site
Date of Insscription: 1997

The Hallstatt-Dachstein alpine landscape, part of the Salzkammergut, and thus of the Eastern Alps, is one of visual drama with huge mountains rising abruptly form narrow valleys. Its prosperity since mediaeval times has been based on salt mining, focused on the town of Hallstatt, a name meaning salt settlement that testifies to its primary function.

Systematic salt production was being carried out in the region as early as the Middle Bronze Age, (the late 2nd millennium BC), when natural brine was captured in vessels and evaporated. Underground mining for salt began at the end of the late Bronze Age and resumed in the 8th century BC when archaeological evidence shows a flourishing, stratified and highly organised Iron Age society with wide trade links across Europe and now known as the Hallstatt Culture. Salt mining continued in Roman times and was then revived in the 14th century. The large amounts of timber needed for the mines and for evaporating the salt where extracted from the extensive upland forests, which since the 16th century were controlled and managed directly by the Austrian Crown. The Town of Hallstatt was re-built in late Baroque style after a fire in 1750 destroyed the timber buildings.

The beauty of the alpine landscape, with its higher pastures used for the summer grazing of sheep and cattle since prehistoric times as part of the process of transhumance, which still today gives the valley communities rights of access to specific grazing areas, was 'discovered' in the early 19th century by writers, such as Adalbert Stifler, novelist, and the dramatic poet Franz Grillparzer, and most of the leading paintings of the Biedermeier school. They were in turn followed by tourists and this led to the development of hotels and brine baths for visitors.

The landscape is exceptional as a complex of great scientific interest and immense natural power that has played a vital role in human history reflected in the impact of farmer-miners over millennia, in the way mining has transformed the interior of the mountain and through the artists and writers that conveyed its harmony and beauty.

Source: unesco.org

Thank you so much ChristinaB!

PC#153 Australia, Letter V maxi card,

Sent: 15/4/2016

Arrived: 2/5/2016

Thank you so much, Hans!