Memorial tablet from St. John's Cathedral

Memorial tablet of Baron Fra Wolfgang Philip von Guttenberg, Bailiff of Brandenburg. Fra means "brother". The bigger part of the floor of the cathedral is covered with these tablets with various pictures linked to death from manu different kind of stones - the tombstones of the knights of the Maltese Order.

FUMUS, HUMUS, SUMUS ET CINIS EST NOSTRA ULTIMA FINIS - the inscription

И don't know latin but this means something like "smoke, earth,(I haven't an idea wath could mean sumus) and ash is our final end". If somebody knows the words plese, help me with translation :)

St. John's cathedral

Here are some vault paintings from the cathedral by Mattia Preti (1613-1699)- the Knight of Calabria.

St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valetta

This is a view of the choir and internal East facade of St. John's with the twin organs. There are a lot of original works of Caravaggio in the oratory of the cathedral. It's quite impressing to see them :)

Some doors from Malta

The big EYE

This is one of my favorites add cards and is about Greece  www.visitgreece.gr. I couldn't find the site in fact, but I found some videos in YouTube. EXPLORE your senses!

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.

A unique card from Singapore

The picture is wanderfull and I like also the little pictures on the back and the stamp. I'm always happy about different cards and new things :)

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!

Nagoya Castle in Aichi

I haven't received any cards for around two weeks, which made so unhappy, but luckily I've received four cards today. This is the first one. This is the Nagoya Castle in Aichi. It has been home of the Owari Tokugawa clan of the Tokugawa family. Tokugawa is among the few things I know about Japan history in fact. May be because I've read some books for this period. Anyway, the castle looks so strange with the two skyscapers in the back. And I'm still curious how the textfield in the postcard is on the right. Looks so different! Thank you, Yukari!

A skyview of the island of Malta

The St. Paul's Catacombs in Rabat

The Hagar Qim temple

Alanya

This is anouther skyview. They know my preferences ;) 

Also this is the first postcard I have with the new logo of Turkey. 

Alanya, Turkey

My sister and her boyfriend were in Turkey for a week and they brought me these two cards from the city they were in. I love skyviews!. The city is called Alanya and is somewhere near Antalya. They are so happy they were in a worm place this week - here is raining all day long the hole week. 

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.