Venezia, Italy.

So, I'm having this app called LevelUpLife on my phone to "level up" myself IRL. The app is like a list of activities you can do and once you done an activity, you'll get an achievement. Each achievement got XP points and collecting this XP points is how you level up. People can comment on your achievements and stuff so I started adding people to make it more interesting and to get to know them.

One of my friends on this app is Marlene, or as her username Lithium_for_Life. When she posted about her plan to travel to Firenze, Italy, I commented on her achievement and she offered to send me a postcard from there. I, of course, won't refuse a chance of getting a postcard :D We then exchanged e-mail because I wanted to send her a card in return.

After waiting for a while, I received a card from her. But to my surprise, it wasn't a card from Firenze, but Venezia. What. A. Nice. Surprise! She sent a postcard from another town she visited as well :D How nice of her. Anyway, the card shows the facade of Saint Mark's Basilica. Here is how the card looks:

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Germany, Ravenclaw.

Another postcard from Demetra. This is the one that supposedly arrive in the same time with the Sherlock postcard. The card shows Ravenclaw House of Hogwarts. I like how it looks like a graffiti :] She has also other houses, but I chose this one because I belong to Ravenclaw, obviously :D However, recently I re-register to Pottermore and they put me in Gryffindor.

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Lithuania, In the Life.

This is also a postcard I got from Facebook group swap. I actually don't know what the postcard showing, since the sender didn't write anything about it nor there is any info on the back. There was writing in Russian: Дмитрий Солунский в житии, XVI в, which based on Google Translate means Dmitry Solunsky in the Life, in XVI. And I suppose it is an old card because I also see "Москва, 1978" on the side.

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Again, a clear postmark :]

Germany, Sherlock 221B.

The postcard shows Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes. And the famous 221B Baker St. door sign. I got it from a Facebook group for swapping the DW cards. Demetra is the sender, and we actually swapped 2 cards written and stamped, but only this one arrived at the moment.

One of my favourites that I've received this year :D I like this kind of illustration with watercolour. Though it might be done digitally, I still like how it looks^^

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Clear postmark :]

Helsinki, Finland.

A postcard from Anne. She lives in Finland and also a penpal of mine. We've sent postcards back and forth multiple times :)

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I wonder why the stamps got no cancellation stamp on it.

Amsterdam, Netherlands.

This postcard is from Suza. She works as a flight attendant, and actually this is the first postcard she ever sent :D She has never sent a postcard before. She wrote that maybe she will start collecting as well. This is such a pleasure for me to introduce the world of snail mailing to someone!

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It has clear postmark :)

Lyon, France.

Another postcard from Kati. She was travelling to Germany, Switzerland, and France. The card shows Lyon at night. Belle ville :)

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Göteborg, Sweden.

Hälsning från Göteborg.
Greetings from Gothenburg.

This is a card from my penpal Kati. She lives in Denmark, and we've been penpal since 2014 maybe, if I remember correctly. She often sends me postcard when she travels too. On this postcard she wrote that she thinks about me. It makes me really happy to know that I'm on her mind ^^

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I really like this red deer stamp :)

Netherlands, An Envelope of Cards.

I'm such a lazy person.

Basically after my last post in 2016, I was still receiving postcards from time to time in my new address. But somehow I didn't have any willingness to upload and post them here. Fast forward to 2017, I'm getting more postcards and mails. So I put them together on my desk in hope that I would take a bit time to upload them. Still no willingness lol. Until earlier this week I was telling my classmates that I have a blog about my postcards and I thought this is the time to start posting them again XD

A couple months ago I posted a swap offer on Postcrossing group on Facebook. I have bunch of Doctor Who postcards so I thought of keeping a couple and the rest are up for swapping. I still have several DW cards that are available for swap, in case you want to swap too :D Anyway, I swapped 3 cards in an envelope with this lady because her son loves Doctor Who. So what you can see here is the cards I got from her.

The first card is this awesome mammoth.

The second card is this one with cats. They remind me of my cats:)

The third one is this vintage looking American poster.

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