BORING POSTCARDS

Mielno (German: Großmöllen or Groß Möllen) is a town in northwestern Poland located on the Baltic Sea and Jamno Lake, on the Slowinski Coast. The city, with two summer seaside resorts and a fishing harbor, is one of the many resort complexes of the Polish coast. A postcard from the late 1980s.

Biała Podlaska region, east part of Poland, postcard from 1975.

WELL, WE ALL GOT DRESSED UP IN THESE SILLY FOLK-LORE COSTUMES AND CAME DOWN TO THE RIVER WHERE PAPA INSISTED ON PLAYING HIS ZITHER AND WE ALL HAD TO WEAR SILLY HATS.

Swinoujscie (German: Swinemünde) - a city and health resort in the northwestern corner of Poland, the northwesternmost city in Poland with a seaport and a bathing resort, located on the Swina Strait and the Baltic Sea, the only city in Poland located on 3 large islands: Usedom, Wolin, Karsibor, and dozens (44 in total) of islands and islets.

Postcard with holiday house KORAB, 1969.

Zielona Gora - a city in the western part of Poland, near the border with Germany. Postcard from 1966, a block of flats in the Wazów housing estate.

FOUR POSTCARDS FROM THE LAST C ENTURY FROM PENELOPE TIMM: THANKS PENELOPE!

1. "Normal", Kingman Co, Kansas, USA

2. Greetings from the Netherlands

3. Monument to the Memory of the Combatants of 1870-71, Place de Trente-Octobre, Dijon, France

4. Moscow Kremlin/Red Square, USSR

THREE MORE  FROM MIKEL: THANKS SIGNOR!

1. Nocturnal View, Rue  del Villar, Santiago de Compostella, Spain

2. La Seine et le Pont Alexandre 111, Paris, France

3. Edelweis

Lyrics  rom The Sound of Music:

Edelweiss...
Edelweiss...
Every morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow
May you bloom and grow

Zwoleń - a town in Poland, in Mazowieckie Voivodeship, Zwoleń County, the seat of the urban-rural municipality of Zwoleń. Situated on the Zwolenka River, in the South Masovian Hills, historically in the Małopolska region. On a postcard from 1973, the building of the Municipal Office.

TWO CHRISTMAS CARDS (from Greece?) AND A (French?) HAPPY NEW CAR CARD FROM KATERINA: merci beaucoup!

WINTERY ONES FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA: THANKS AGAIN!

1. I Love Ski

2. Ski Jump, Valle de Astun, Spain

3. Candancho, Pirineo Aragones, Spain

NEW YORK BORING POSTCARDS FROM ALF-OLE ASK: TAK!

1 The Fijiya Hotel, Natural Hot Spring, Miyanoshita, Japan

A very old postcard from early 1900s

Feeding time at the California alligator Farm, Los Angeles California

”The Pond”, Ashford, UK ,  no other details given. (Postcard appears very old: affix 1/2d stamp)

Good to see that the "New Cards" arrived in Sigean, Val,

even in time for New Year of the Dragon beginning in February, wow!

TWO FROM PETER WILSON -- THANKS PETER!

1. John J Donnelly Rocky River Nature Center, Cleveland Metroparks, North Olmstead, Ohio;

The Center is 'world-renowed for its ancient fossils'. And this is DUNK! -- 'the 360 million year-old Dunkeleosteus armored fossil fish unearthed in the Center's shale rock'.

Dunk like an occasional cup of coffee into which he duked his donuts...but that was at another place in Ohio where there is a Dunkin Donuts chain 360 million years later.

2. Pier W Cleveland's specialty seafood restaurant, Lakewoood, Ohio, USA

"You'll find more than you expected here. A stunning view of the lake and Clevland's skyline. Service so polished it's almost invisible. And a first-rate menu."

And a very ugly cantilevered restaurant building beneath a very ugly highrise. Maybe lots of architects go there for the view, the invisible service, and even the seafood.

SPOILER ALERT -- ADDICTION! WEIRD POSTCARD FROM FROM HELEEN DE VAAN (bedankt, Heleen)

It says: "The average person checks their phone 85 times a day. And you?"

Heleen reckons that this postcard is not just (or even not only) boring, but ugly - and I agree with her.

But it's interesting in it's own way -- a white, tattooed girl (I think) with  a . big brown non-humanoid ear. Does this represent the future of politically correct (boring) postcards?

Heleen wonders what we did 15 or so years ago when we didn't have smart phones?

(I'm not smart enough to have a so-called 'smart phone.', and I only look at my antique phone about 4 or 5 times a day.)

THREE WINTERY VIEWS OF CANDANCHU, SPAIN -- FROM MIKEL: thanks once again!

Ustronie Morskie, Baltic See beach, postcard about 1970.

LE LAC DE MATEMALE, FRANCE

BOTTOMS UP! PLANTING RICE IN LA CAMARGUE, FRANCE

Kalisz - market square and surroundings of the city (Goluchow castle and roadside inn), postcard from 1975.

EMPTY HALL AT FRANCE'S AEROP0RT DE MARSEILLE-MARIGNANE (with large plant)

THANK YOU CLEMENTINA CADERA FOR THIS BORING POSTCARD OF SORENBERG, SWITZERLAND

'Here's aBoring Postcard of a village where tourism made all the houses look pretty much the same', says Clementina

Reminds me of the 'Little Boxes song, of which here is the first verse:

A FRENCH EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT

1. Draguignon Ecole Normale d'Institutrices'Normale'? Is there,  I wonder, a school for the abnomral, subnormal, or otherwise different in Var, France?

TWO BORING POSTCARDS OF HOLIDAY INNS, FROM PETER WILSON -- who writes "I cannot imagine that receiving these would make the recipient want to visit either of them". Anyway, THANKS, PETER!

1. Holiday Inn of Cleveland East, Ohio, USA

Peter says that this is in a 'pretty awful neighborhood', and wonders if the Holiday Inn still exists. I don't think it does. But when it did it offered "Swimming Pool -- Air-conditioned (air-conditioned what?) -- Restaurant -- Free TV -- Free Hoiday Reservations".

Sadly they couldn't afford a photographer, and this is a not very good drawing of the Inn.

(Aside on the Inn's  "Free TV". There was once a pub in England that had a board outside offering "FREE SEX EVERY NIGHT" in big capitals. On closer inspection there were some important very small letters added to it, viz: "FREE wifi SEXually seperated toilets EVERY NIGHT open until 23.45)

2. Holiday Inn of Duluth, Minn, USA

This one -- oh dear, another drawing -- offers "TV and Radio in every room [including the bathroom?] -- Beautiful Cocktail Lounge [as opposed to an Ugly Capital Lounge? Oh dear again, I've got the Holiday Inn Capital Letter Fever] -- Indoor Swimming Pool"

Giżycko (Lötzen) - a city in the Warmian-Masurian province, the seat of Giżycko county and the rural municipality of Giżycko (former in german Ostpreussen). The city is located between lakes Kisajno and Niegocin. Giżycko is called the capital of sailing in Poland. Postcard about 1970.

Pojezierze Kaszubskie - (Kaszëbsczi Ùbrzég) is a fairly elongated region. The eastern border is the Baltic Sea coast, and it is located in the administrative area of Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia. Postcard about 1970.

WINTERY BORING POSTCARDS FROM FRANCE 5but Spring is coming....at last)

1. Chamonix, Mont Blance, France2. Le Puy de Dome, L'Auvergne, France

1465 meters of very steep climbing for le Tour de France riders in summer

Lagow - town located in Świętokrzyskie province, Kielce county. The seat of the Łagów municipality office. It is located in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. The postcard from 1979 shows a late Gothic church, a 1960s socmodernist school and the landscape.

Thanks Deborah, I'll take your word that Co Fermanagh is awesome to live n. lease send e the postcard, if no-one else has already claimed it. As to AI on the reverse of the card, well our BPs are almost all of the front of the cards, so AI doesn't come into this. I am 'NS' = Naturally Stupid°(People usually send me the Boring Postcards that they find, I group them together where possible and suitable, and put them up here on the site. Merci: VMH, 1 rue de la Vieille Fontaine, 11130 SIGEAN, France, who ooks forward to receiving more BPs from you)

BORING JUKEBOX POSTCARD -- BOUGHT IN PARIS, BY HELEEN: MAILED IN AMSTELVEEN, THE NETHERLANDS, BY HELEEN: TO VAL, IN SIGEAN, FRANCE

'Jukebox, Paris, 1956'.

Heleen writes, "I - as usual [shame on you, Heleen!]  -- don't think this card boring, but it seems as if the ladies overleaf are kind of bored, so someoneor something (maybe life?) must have been boring to them."

BEDANKT, HELEEN!

(PS, I have about 800 7 inch vinyl records, 700 12 inch vinyl LPS, 700 cassettes, 1 old portable record player, but, alas, no jukebox.  I don't have a single piece of digital or analogue music.)

"TYPICALLY CORSICAN" BORING POSTCARDS (from 1966)

1. THE YOUNG ONES: BUT HOW MANY -- 2, 3 OR 4?Well, it says that they are "typical", but it's not clear if that's a reference to the people and/or the donkeys.

Anyway, Corsica is "An oasis of beauty".

2. THE OLDER ONES -- BUT NOW WE ARE DOWN TO 2 OR 3

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA -- THANKS YET AGAIN, MIKEL!

1. Valle de Astun (Jaca), Spain

2. Ski! Spain

3.Alta Montana, Spain

THUR MOUNTAIN AND LOUGH MCNEAN, IRELAND -- FROM DEBORAH McMENAMY -- THANKS!

Deborah writes: "Ii my life was a postcard this is the one it would be. not very far from where I live these cows (not these exact cows) graze by the banks of Lough McNean. the almost too tranquilness captured in this boring postcard depicts the actual 'vibe' of life in rural Ireland. you can fall asleep looking at it. you can fall asleep looking at it. you can fall asleeee....zzzz"

BORING MOUNTAIN POSTCARDS

1. Mont Blanc, Chamonix, France

2. Le Montvalier, Aulus-Les-Bains, Ariege, France

OLD RUSSIAN BORING POSTCARDS FROM ILYA SEMENENKO-BASIN: THANKS ILYA

MOSCOW BORING POSTCARDS FROM ILYA SEMENENKO-BASIN -- THANKS AGAIN ILYA! (Alas, I can't tell you what they are postcards of as the information the reverse side is in Russian, and I don't speak Russian)

Or maybe they were from Leningrad: I don't know!

Cher Valentine Mark,   

je suis content que ces cartes Vous plaisent. Sur les cartes postales - la ville de Saint-Pétersbourg, qui en 1914 a été rebaptisée "Petrograd", plus tard par les communistes rebaptisés "Leningrad", puis à nouveau rebaptisée Saint-Pétersbourg.

21/11 NOT 9/11. ON 21 SEPTEMBER, 2001, THERE WAS A MASSIVE BLAST AT THE AZF CHEMICAL FACTORY IN TOULOUSE, FRANCE. 31 PEOPLE DIED, THE EXPLOSION COULD BE HEARD 80 kms AWAY, 10% OF THE TOULOUSE POPULATION HAD TO BE EVACUATED. A TERRORIST ATTACK WAS SUSPECTED -- AND THIS WAS ONLY 12 DAYS AFTER 9/11 -- BUT NEVER PROVED. THE CLUB DE CARTOPHILES (POSTCARD COLLECTORS DEMIDI-PYRENEES PRODUCED A SERIES OF 'COMMEMORATIVE' (!) POSTCARDS

BORING BUILDING -- MAISON ST-CAMILLE, THEOULE SUR MER, FRANCE

BORING FRENCH AND SWISS POSTCARDS FROM YESTERDAY'S FLEA MARKET

1. Fun and games (and a poem as well) at a foklore competition "Les Thiaulins de Lignieres", St. Hilaires-en- lignieres, France

2. Lake at Belle Bouche, Vendoeuvres, France

3. Swissair Boeing 747 over Geneva, Switzerland

The Masurian Lake District is characterized by a varied relief with numerous glacial lakes. Numerous rivers flow down from the hills both north and south. The Masurian Lake District definitely differs from other regions of Poland in terms of hydrography. This is because there are about 2,500 natural water reservoirs with an area exceeding 1 hectare. These reservoirs are connected by many watercourses flowing towards the north and south. The area is covered with marshes and peat bogs.

Postcard about 1980.

Konin - a city with county rights in central Poland, in Greater Poland Province, the seat of Konin County; located in the Konin Valley, on the Warta River; the main centre of the Konin Coal Basin. Postcards about 1980.

Theater in Rybnik located in the downtown area at the Theater Square. The theater building was designed by Jerzy Gottfried, Henryk Buszka and Aleksander Franta, construction began in 1958 and the building was finally opened on December 4, 1964. Postcard from around 1980.

BORING POSTCARDS FROM FRANCE

1. Truits"I am going fishing for some beautiful trouts and I am thinking of you,"

is the description on the reverse of this Postcard. But who was it sent to -- a trout?

2. Harvest time
3. Biarritz, rocks and the lighthouse

Postcards from St. Petersburg / former Leningrad, Russia. About 1970 ?