BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 28, 2022 at 10:34am

FROM GWENDOLYN HOLBROW -- lA FONTAINE HOTEL, GRAND CAYMAN, BRITISH WEST INDIES

Gwendolyn was kind enough to 'decode' the tiny writing on the back of the Postcard. It reads:

"Dear Barby, Have stamps and coins for you. No teenagers here! You would love shopping in Lincoln Mall in Miami. So many shops and so much nice stuff that it would take 2 days to see it all. The ocean swimming is wonderful. The ocean and sky would be beautiful to paint. I got 3 Viewmasters to  (??)  it. You can find big (huge?) conch shells here, but they smell so bad for several days! The coral is beautiful but deadly and sea sponges are abundant. Our beach is all sandy. You would really like the jet flight. See you soon: Love Dad and Mum (December 16, 1971)

Thanks Gwendolyn!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 28, 2022 at 10:24am

RUSSIAN BORING POSTCARD FROM EDVARD EGOROV

Thanks, Edvard!

I don't know where this is from cos I don't understand Russian.

I've recently become aware that Russia and the former Iron Curtain countries used postcards as a propaganda tool. This postcard is one of them --a clean building; lots of greenery; 2 vehicles in good condition; and not a single person in sight.

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on April 22, 2022 at 12:17pm

Boguszów-Gorce (Boguszów: German: Gottesberg; Gorce: German: Rothenbach) - a town in the Sudety Mountains, in Lower Silesia, in the southern part of the Lower Silesian region. Postcard sent around 1980, shows the market square, the monument and a general view of the town.

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on April 20, 2022 at 1:15pm

Przysucha - lagoon Topornia. A place of rest for residents of Radom, a big city located about 100 km south of Warsaw. Postcard sent in 1969.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 15, 2022 at 3:10pm

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL

1. Betencuria, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain

2. Le Basin du Doubs, Les Brenets, France

An old sepia cum b/w Boring Postcard showing...not very much

3. Changdeog Palace, Seoul, Korea

"Baby, it's cold outside."

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on April 15, 2022 at 3:04pm

TWO BLUE ONES FROM KATERINA

1. Avila Beach California

"Year-round seacoast playground, yacht harbour, ideal sailing and water skiing, deep sea and pier fishing. California's Safest Beach"

You can't see much, if any of the beach! None of the boats have any people on them. No wonder it's safe;

2.Nikiti, Halkidiki, Greece

Another empty boat

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 30, 2022 at 5:19pm

TWO MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA -- Nos 101 & 102

Fuerteventura, the Canary Islands

Not much happening on this beach, or on this Boring Postcard

Grand Trianon, Versailles Palace, France

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on March 30, 2022 at 9:08am

some boring BLUE on the way to Sigean :-)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 29, 2022 at 6:12pm

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: "POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST", by Tom Jackson

Our Group focusses on the front of Boring Postcards. In his book "Postcards from the Past", Tom Jackson looks at both the front of Postcards (many of which are Boring), and the messages on the back -- many of which are hilarious. The latter, he says, are "part of a ghost story, odd messages from the past breaking through to speak to us years later."

Here are some of Jackson's Boring Postcards and Ghosts:

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 29, 2022 at 6:01pm

THIS IS A SPECIAL BORING POSTCARD!!

It is the 100th Boring Postcard received from Mikel Untzilla, to whom I owe a 100 thanks.

It's an old postcard from the Soviet Union. I can't make out what it says.

Altogether I reckon that there are about 720 Boring Postcards here.

Mikel has sent me the most, followed by Mim with 93 (and soon to join the 100 Club) and Katerina with 65.

Thanks to one and all....and keep sending me them, please!

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