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| ID: | 650 |
| Title: | A Postcard A Day |
| URL: | http://apostcardaday.blogspot.com/ |
| Feed URL: | http://feeds2.feedburner.com/APostcardADay |
| Category: | Recreation: Travel |
| Description: | Travel by postcard - posting at least one, chosen at random, each day. |
| Shoe shine - Tue, 22 May 2012 00:21:59 PDT |
 A glimpse of everyday life inLisbon, in Portugal, taken in 1987 by Christian Auscher.   |
| Scotland (and a tiny bit of England) - Sun, 20 May 2012 10:09:05 PDT |
  I wasn't expecting any postcards to arrive, or even any stamped mail, but a lovely cartoon map of Scotland came out of the blue yesterday. On it is a nice example of the Scottishdefinitive stamp, with a thistle. This is the new 87p rate for European mail up to 20g or worldwide up to 10g, a fairly massive increase from 68p for the European rate and from 76p for worldwide postcards. I haven't started using these yet because I stocked up on the old "No value indicated" stamps before they too increased. You may notice a young lady in a bikini off the east cost, near Montrose. I think you can safely consider that to be artistic license on the part of whoever drew this map. This is a post for Sunday Stamps, run by Viridian. Click on the button to visit her blog and all the other participants.    |
| Ye Old Chequers then and now - Sat, 19 May 2012 02:00:05 PDT |
 Dated 10 February 1906 (9:45 pm) with a message saying, "Dear M, If anything like fine I will be down tomorrow morning. Yours B." Imagine that, being able to send a postcard in the evening announcing your arrival the next morning. Now you would have to post the card during the afternoon, pay extra, and hope it arrived before you. And it probably wouldn't. This is what Ye Old Chequers in the the High Street, Tonbridge looks like now. View Larger Map The building to the left seems to have been demolished and the one on the right had been done up to match, but otherwise, it's remarkably similar. Tonbridge used to be spelled Tunbridge but the Post Office decided it should be changed to Tonbridge to avoid confusion with the nearby (Royal) Tunbridge Wells. Tonbridge, though, is a great deal older than Tunbridge Wells.  |