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People in Greece

This is my first entry about Greece, and instead of featuring a postcard showing its place or monuments which I still have very few, I would love to see these cards with people here first. I find it really interesting, to be able to see the real lifestyle in a place… how local people dress and do in their day.. these are absolutely among my favorite theme of postcards!!

From Marnie. It’s such a typical sight in Greece.. and in many other countries too I guess, where some elderly men gather in a coffee shop in their free time.. only Marnie says she was amazed to know how much more men than women seem to go out in Greece.. hmm, now it makes me realized that it’s the same thing in Malaysia as well, especially in smaller towns and villages. But women do go out, too, of course.

From Moisianu. This boy is very happy that he catched two big squids today! :D and take a look again at the first postcards with the cofeeshop men.. see at the back.. they dry squids on the drying lines! I know we have dried squids here as well.. there used to be a time when there existed stalls on bicycle goes around selling dried squids.. and they can be found at night markets as well. Now that I mentioned dried squids, I haven’t eaten them for such a long time! And these Greek squids are relatively bigger in size.. and now I am craving for dried squids :)~ thing is I don’t know where to find one these years… 

From Moisianu. First of all, I love the house! This should be a typical neighborhood in Crete island.. the architecture, the people, the flowers, and the especially the donkey! I love the way they have only small path within the house buildings.. obviously only for pedestrian, donkeys, and bicycles at most.. no cars or engined vehicles and such.

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The Eiffel Tower

When I was making the post of Paris, France before to celebrate Haris‘ arrival there, I kept Eiffel Tower cards aside first and said that I would feature them once Haris goes to climb Eiffel! And later he did climb it indeed! See this! :D

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*clap clap* :D:D Amazing, Haris!! Photo credit to Valerie Octabis. So to keep my promise here I am presenting my collection of Eiffel Tower postcards I have received so far… :) Tra la la la..

From Pazzolina. The famous Eiffel Tower! It’s standing 276m high and needs 80 tonnes of painting. You can climb if by feet (maybe like Haris did) or use the lift… but you have to change lift at each floor until it reaches upstairs. At the top, on a clear sunny day you can see 60km radius of Paris view around you!

From Pazzolina. The Eiffel Tower is seen from afar, and the Paris Seine River obviously, with pedestrian bridge A25 crossing it and a canal boat crusing it. Along the river there are Bouquinistes standing (“Bouquin” is a word use for books) and Bouquinistes sell old books, postcards (Yay! See? Loads of cards there!), old stamps etc..

From Dollart. This is actually a photo she took on her Paris trip! Not bad, isn’t it?

From Drs_Dolittle. Though the image of the couple seems to be more significant than the Eiffel tower itself… anyways.. this is rather a classy black and white view of Paris in my collection, and this picture was taken from the Notre-Dame cathedral… hmm sounds familiar… why? Oh, I already featured a card of Notre-Dame in the Paris post! ;)

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Paris!!!

To commemorate Haris arrival in the capital of France, I hereby would like to put some postcards from Paris here :)) (these won’t include Eiffel Tower though, I’ll put Eiffel as soon as Haris goes there :P)

haris in paris

Haris : “Hi!! I am in PARIS!!!!!”

From Pazzolina. Notre Dame de Paris (Our Lady of Paris) is a Gothic cathedral built on an island in the middle of the Seine, the heart of Paris. Before the Roman invasion, Paris’ name was Lutèce and the inhabitants were fishermen. Inside of this cathedral is very bright because of the stained glass windows. In the middle of this square stands the Point D, where all distances from Paris to another point in France are measured from.

FR-39679 from Kateryna, showing La Place du Tertre, a square in the heart of Paris’ Montmartre quarter. It’s the place where many artists setting up their easels for tourists, as well as for a drink.

From Vessie. This is La Basilique du Sacré-Cœur (Basilica of the Sacred Heart) also in Montmarte square in Paris. Yes, this church can be seen in previous card as well. It was built in Romano-Byzantine style and completed in 1914. I just love the sky color giving the shade of purple here.

From Pazzolina. The 3 views belong to Le Musée du Louvre (Louvre Museum), which is a historic monument and the biggest museum in Paris. It used to be the King palace before turning into a museum. The glass pyramid reflects in a water mirror where you can also see the building all around on sunny days.

From Titourse, showing the Grand Mosque of Paris, built in 1922 to honor the North African countries that had helped France during World War I. The mosque was made of reinforced concrete and decorated with mosaics, wood carvings and wrought iron brought from Morocco.

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