Bangkok

The Temple of the Emerald Buddha - 2

Bangkok, the river

Chinatown in Bangkok

I tought only cities in the USA have Chinatowns :)

We have chinamarket in Sofia, althought the name is different.

The Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok

Floating market in Thailand

This card is the first from the six in the letter I've received today. I'm so happy I did this swap! All of the cards are amazing :)

From Finland

A postcrossing card from a girl I'm doing private swap also

Happy New Year

It's been a while since I've last posted a postcard here, but there were so many holidays and rest so I didn't received anything. Our posts also have holidays these days. But I've received a lot last two days. I'll begin with two postcards received in december that I forgot to post and then I'll post the 12 postcards I've received today and yesterday :)

The first one is from Egypt and it's from a man I'm doing second private swap now. Unfortenatly, he didn't receive my postcard (and he's not the first one) so I had to send him one again. I hope I won't have problems with our postoffice this year, but it is so small that I doubt it :)

My first postcard from Philippines!

I'm so glad with this swap!

Postcard from Nova Bystrice

A private swap from Czech Republic with coats of armes and nice view from the square. There are hockey players on the stamps for the 100 anniversary of the czech hockey.

My first and may will be only one postcard from Aruba

I'm so glad that I have a postcard from Aruba now! I didn't know this language - papiamento and I like not only the postcard but also the recepy for baked bananas on its back and the stamp with some kind of building looking like a church or something like that. So, thank you very much, Carolien! Ayo :)

Mercado de las Flores

Cuenca - Ecuador

Finaly I have a postcard from Ecuador! I'm so happy about it! Thanks Paola!

Unfortenatly the stamps are one above the other and they look so nice :9

First card from Russia

Thanks to the private swap and to Ksenia, who was so kind to swap with me, I finaly have a postcard from Russia. As I said, I don't have much postcards from slavic and eastern-european countries and that's why I'm so happy to receive :) Also I'm happy to have one from Saint Petersburg (Санкт Петербург), because this is one of the cities Ii would like to visit someday!

Second private swap with Belarus

This is anouther interesting card from the same Zimani studio. I didn't know that a library could look so extra-terrestial!

A private swap from Maribor, the 2nd biggest city in Slovenia

There are two churches, the one on the middle left - from 14th century, the old part of the city and the main square.

Last postcard for today - Argentina

I forgot I have aranged a private swap with a girl from Argentina, it was so long ago! But in this way the surprise was full :) I even aranged private swap with anouther girl from Argentina (which I'm happy I've done because I'll have two cards from Argentina this way and I'm expecting the othe one with a lot of impatience!) I like the picture so much and especialy I'm happy that there is an explanation on its back about each picture . 

So these are the places (in order of appearence):

1. Hotel Llao Llao - Bariloche - Rio Negro

2. Mar del Plata - Buenos Aires Province

3. A field with sunflawers in la Pampa 

4. Bandera Rosario's monument - Santa Fe

5. Iguazu Waterfalls - Misiones

6. Perito Moreno glacier- Santa Cruz

7. Los Cardones National Park- Salta

8. Ushuaia - Tierra del Fuego (The land of fire - I'm not exactly sure how is the name in english)

9. El Palmar National Park- Entre Rios

The girl is from Trelew, so I'll check Trelew in the map.

The Capital Brasilia

I'm so happy that I finaly received this card. The guy who sent it asked me if I received it but I wasn't. We used to study about the buildings in Brasilia in our history of modern architecture class, so I'm happy that I have a postcard with these famous buildings now. :)

The buildings are:

The National Congress

The Temple of Legiao da Boa Vontade

The Itamaraty Palace

The National Theatre

P.s.: I can't point Brasilia in the Where I've Been application - it's impossible - after all this is the capital!

Minsk, Belarus

I finally have a card from an eastern-european country. I think it's because Bulgaria is in East Europe, that's why I don't receive postcards from there. But viva the private swap :) I've received a lovely photograph from Minsk, the capital of Belarus. It shows the town hall and the cathedral Virgin Mary. It's few I know about Belarus, altough I had a classmate from Belarus. As it can be seen in the article, they have the same microraions (микрорайони) like ours (Prytytski Square). Ours don't have lightnings in fact. These are the same panel buildings, made dirung the communist period, which americans show in their movies as a symbol of poverty in the Eastern Europe, which is a bit stupid, i think. It was curius for me to know that there is Russo-Belarusian pidgin language, called trasianka. 

Ратуша is a new word I've learned from russian - it means town hall. I'm not good in speaking russian, but I usualy don't have problems with understanding it - it's so close to bulgarian, and also I used to study it in school, so I'm happy when people write me in russian (even when I reply in english, I find it easier to speak english at the moment, maybe because of all movies and books and internet sites). The photograph is of the husband of Nargiza, and this is his site - http://zimani.net/eng/, where you can find a lot of nice photoes. 

And anouther interesting thing about Belarus - there is a residention of Ded Moroz (its Diado Mraz in bulgarian) - the eastern version of Santa Claus:  http://www.streamphoto.ru

When we were children in Bulgaria, we were expecting Дядо Мраз (Diado Mraz) on New Year's Eve. Now children are axpecting Дядо Коледа (Diado Koleda, or Grandpa Cristmass, or Pere Noel :) on the night before Xmas. Things are changing. 

Sao Paulo