Baros

Baros - Male Atoll

The photographer is amazing - Michael Friedel 

Baros island

My dad went on vacation on Maldives this winter and he brought me these 4 superb postcards. He was really happy he went there because he likes diving and there are a lot of thinks to see under the water (it's not like in the Black Sea ;) This postcard is with a view of the restaurant on the island he was - Baros. They call the restaurant Lighthouse because of its shape.

You can send the same picture as a free e-card on the official site of Baros - http://www.baros.com/e-card.php

Cannes - the city of the cinema festival

Cote d'Azur

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.

The main post office square in Sao Paulo

My second card from Sao Paulo. I like the stamps! Also this is the first thing connected to postoffices I receive :) I like very much the drawing also.

Constanca also has a blog about her postcards - http://postaisdecaes.blogspot.com

You can see from her blog she is fond of dogs - she has postcards with dogs from everywhere, some of them very cute :). My friend Desi will be very happy when she see the blog - she is fond of dogs too :)

Monte Carlo

The harbour

Nice view from Monte Carlo

Pleаse, don't think I have postcards only from Malta! ;)

My last postcard from Malta - a multiview card Prehistoric Temples of Malta and Gozoo

The temples are:

1. Hagar Qim

2. Hagar Qim again - closer look

3. Mnajdra

4. Mnajdra again

5. Tarxien

6. Tarxien

7. Ggantija (in Gozo)

The prehistoric relics on the back cover are (from the top left - clockwise:

1. Ensemble of figurines from the Xaghra Stone Circle

2. Block from the Tarxien Temples

3. Statue of the "Sleeping Lady"

4. Fossil rcovered from Ghar Dalam

5. The Venus of Malta

6. The freestanding statue of a deity

The Maltese islands

An old handcarved stone balcony in Mdina.

The Azzure Window ot Qawra

Gozo island.

Crucifix

This is the monumental crucifix of Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio.

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