Cornish cottages

By ilyani | Published 3 February, 2009

Cornwall is a county in England, located in the end tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain, and it’s the homeland of Cornish people. Perhaps Cornwall has alot of beautiful cottage houses, because.. look at these postcards.

GB-11421 from Jim. He lives in a house looking like the one at bottom right picture. Really lovely, right? And so are the others. They’re like houses in the children stories I always had in my mind. Plus they’re very near to the sea :) I want to live here! Really I do!

From Janina in Germany. OMG, now that I put these two postcards near to each other, I have just realized that this Cornish cottage is also in the first postcard! (bottom right one – the one’s like Jim’s house). HAHAHA how could I not notice this before. This cottage must be real cool that many postcards feature its picture. See? I have actually many chain-related postcards in my collection! How nice :) *Gotta find some more..*

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Budapest

By ilyani | Published 3 February, 2009

I have got a number of Hungary postcards but I guess I should start with its capital first :) Let me tell you how these 3 Budapest postcards are chained -related. Well this is my own little investigation and I was so giddy when I took a closer look at the pictures and found out this fact.

Budapest 1 from Haju. The river down the Budapest city is called Danube, which actually cuts half the city: left side is Buda and right side is Pest. See that there are 3 bridges crossing this river. And the middle bridge is the Széchenyi Chain Bridge, which the most famous and oldest bridge. Let’s zoom in and focus yourself to the area where that bridge is located.

Budapest 2 from Satsuma. Oh now you can see a closer look of Széchenyi Chain Bridge! :) The marvellous bridge was opened in 1849, and became the first permanent bridge in the Hungarian capital. In this postcard the House of Parliament is clearly seen at the back. See that building, okay?

Budapest 3 from Sterika. YAY now we have got a close up look of the Hungarian House of Parliament! :D I just love this building. I looks more a gothic church than a parliament, at least in this picture. Cool isn’t it? (You have no idea how boring Malaysian parliament building is :P) Anyways. This Hungarian Parliament building was built from 1885 to 1904, and it really was built in gothic revival style. And one interesting fact from its Wikipedia, the architect of this building went blind before its completion. (Huh?)

Alright. Now you have seen how postcard 3 is “inside” postcard 2 and postcard 2 is inside postcard 1! :) It’s called chain-relation, isn’t it? Okay whatever :P That’s all from Budapest!

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Copenhagen

By ilyani | Published 2 February, 2009

Two of my postcards from Denmark are actually the same place in Copenhagen with photos taken from different angle (see in these postcards the buildings are identical). It’s a historical canal harbor or quarter called Nyhavn (New Harbor) and one of the most visited places in Copenhagen.

From Smist. This was the first card I received from Denmark (Jan 2006) which she sent along with a mix CD.

From Seglare. I knew her living and studying in Finland and now that she returned to Denmark she just had to send me her first card from there! :)

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