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PFF – Traumstraßen in Deutschland

By ilyani | Published 29 May, 2009

For the Postcard Friendship Friday, I have to feature this very interesting postcard today! It’s a sort of map in a part of Germany, only a little unusual coz it shows the Fairy Tales Route! :)

From Padme_Chandra. Now can you recognize these fairy tales? They all belong to these places along this route! How exciting!! I have always loved the Bremen Musicians, the Hamelin Pied Piper, Hensel & Gretel ever since I can remember. And…. is that the Sleeping Beauty?? :D And there’s the Little Red Riding Hood and the fox!! I am not sure if I can remember the rest though.. do you? (they look rather familiar, but now I am clueless when I’m trying hard to remember! -____-)

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Okay this is where the route is physically located in Germany. How amazing to know this is home to alot of famous fairytales that are well-known to children around the world (including Malaysia, yes). Though to be honest, I wasn’t really aware that they were from Germany! :P

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See more of the PFF party at Marie’s!! :D

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Bulgaria

By ilyani | Published 21 May, 2009

I have featured a few postcards of Sofia in this post, but now I am making an entry for Bulgaria coz I want to put this neat map card of the country.. I still can’t believe nobody in the postcards publishers here bother to make map postcards of Malaysia :( They only know to keep recycling same old photos that I am more than bored to see at the shops!

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Sent by Prilade

This is obviously from the old scanner time. Anyway I just love when a postcard has general information of a country written on it which can come in handy.. so I’ll just write them here..

Area : 110,993 km2
Population (2001) : 7,973,673
Capital : Sofia (1,173,813)
Climate : Predominant moderate
Sunlight per year : 2000-2400 hours
Coastline : 380km
The Highest Peak : Mussala in Rila Mountain (2971m)
Natural lakes : About 220 (over 260 high-mountain)
Rivers (longer than 2.3km) : 526
Mineral springs : About 500
Political System : Parliamentary Republic
National holiday : March 3rd
Time zone : GMT +2
Currency : Lev (BGN) = 100 stotinki
Telephone code : +359

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Sent by Maggie_is_here

I just feel like including this postcard along even though it’s from Mizia region, but I guess on this colorful card you can have general idea of how Bulgarian costume, tradition, nature, castles and homes are like.

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Regards from Belgium

By ilyani | Published 10 May, 2009

My very first entry of Belgium… guess which postcard to feature? A door. :)

Sent by Gredou

Sent by Gredou

I was searching a proper postcard to go along with below Belgium map card.. and I wanted a general Belgium postcard, rather than a certain Belgian city. Somehow I noticed this card has “Regards from Belgium” written on it, so I chose this postcard!! :D Well, this particular photograph shows a neat door of some house or building somewhere in Belgium perhaps, comes with the title “Dialogue de sourds” (Dialogue of the deaf). Hmm.. deep as it sounds.

Sent by Brunyi via Map tag

Sent by Brunyi via Map tag

This is the Belgium map! As you can see, Belgium is bordered by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France.. so the Belgian people speak Dutch, French or German according to which country they live closer to :)

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