BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Heleen de Vaan on June 23, 2022 at 11:22am

Not as boring (look at those footsteps! The rich green forest! The crystal blue sea!) as these Dutch stamps which more or less look like this boring postcard...

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 22, 2022 at 3:40pm

THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE MOST BORING EVER POSTCARDS I HAVE COME ACROSS!

It's of a big sand dune -- la Dune du Pilat -- 9km/6miles from Arachon in the SW of France. It's 115meters high and the highest sand dune in Europe

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 22, 2022 at 3:36pm

"WHEN THERE ISN'T MUCH TO SHOW ON A BORING POSTCARD HIDE AWAY WHATEVER THERE IS INSIDE A BLACK 'FRAME' "

(Extract from 'How to Make a Boring Postcard Manual')

1; Route de des Tunnels, Les Gorges de Tarn, France

2. Chateau Gaillard (12th century), Les Andalys, France

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on June 20, 2022 at 9:01am

Kalisz, postcard with view - "Osiedle 25- lecia PRL" (Estate of the 25th anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland) (such name was in use in Poland during the communist Russian regime). Postcard from late 70s of XX century.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 11, 2022 at 10:42am

POLITICS AS THEATER...OR THEATER AS POLITICS?

Two Boring Postcards of the Bundeshaustadt Bonn, Germany. The first shows the Federal Parliament building (before the Parliament moved to the Reichstag building in Berlin). The second Postcard is of a theater on the same street.

I would have thought that one theater would have been enough, and the best show (drama, comedy, tragedy) what-have- you would have been in the Parliament.

 

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 9, 2022 at 4:57am

TWO SOMEWHAT BIZARRE BORING POSTCARDS

1. Rock with hole and LOTS of seagulls (the white flecks), Cote d'Amour, France

2. A French pine forest Boring Postcard

Apart from the beaten-up bit of tree dominating the foreground, there ain't much pine forest here, just a lot of scrubland and some sea

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 6, 2022 at 3:21pm

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA: THANKS MIKEL!

1. Mexican Wolf

This looks like the Alsation dog that lives nearbye that is neither Mexican nor a wolf -- just bad-tempered

2. Lanzarote

It's supposed to be a Postcard of Lanzarote, but all I can see is a boat in the foreground, a rising or setting sun in the background...but where is the island of Lanzarote? In it's absence, this could be a Postcard of almost anywhere

3. Langeats, France.'Le Chateau' - Salle des Gardes'

Hèlas, there are no Gardes as they have all gone looking for Lanzarote

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 6, 2022 at 3:11pm

Thanks Raphael. Every Sunday I go to a flea market hoping to find some East European Boring Postcards like your ones from Koszalin and Lublin, but I  haven't found any so far. I'm going to Holland next month and know of a postcard collector/dealer there who may have some. Regards, Val

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on June 6, 2022 at 2:09pm

Koszalin - one of the biggest cities in the northern part of Poland, situated near the Baltic Sea coast. Photo shows the building of the Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, postcard from 1964.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 5, 2022 at 3:34pm

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! PLATINUM ANNIVERSARY BORING POSTCARDS FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE AND LONDON

1. The Handing Over the Keys Ceremony at the Tower of london

A strange British custom -- raising your top hat when you hand over some keys

2. The Tower Guard at the Tower of London

These are Coldstream Guards, one of the 5 Regiments guarding the Tower. (You can tell that they are Coldstream Guards because the buttons on their tunics are grouped in twos; Every True Brit knows this sort of military trivia)

3. Changing of the Guard at the Tower of London

These are Scots Guards, another of the 5 Regiments guarding the Tower. (You can tell that they are Scots Guards because it says so on the back of the Postcard.)

4. The Queen's Guard Parade (outside Buckingham Palace)

How can you tell when the Queen is in Buck Pal? Because the Royal Flag flies on top of it; (When she is not there a McDonalds' Golden Arch replaces it)

5. Yeoman Warden at the Tower of London

These Wardens are more commonly known as' Beefeaters'. I don't think there are equivalent groups of vegaetarian or vegan Warders.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

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