BORING POSTCARDS

Przemyskie Voivodeship - a region located in south-eastern Poland, on the current border with Ukraine. As an administrative unit it existed between 1975 and 1999. Postcard from around 1978.

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA

1. Iban de Estanes (177m. alt.) Piirineo Aragones, Spain

2. Camino de Santiago, Spain

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" (about Boring Postcards?). Or Pilgrims' Progress

3. Le Palais du Centre Nationale des Industries et Techniques

Featuring the 'Rond-Point (roundabout) de la Défense à Puteaux'

[Just in case you don't know immediately who the architects responsible for the Centre are they are Monsewers Camelot, De Mailly and Zehrfuss]

DECOY POOL HOUSE, SOMERSET, ENGLAND

I stayed here many years ago, but there were no huntsmen or hounds there then

THINGS ARE VERY BAD IN PARIS, FRANCE, THESE DAYS....

1.La tour Eiffel de la rue St Eleuthère

"So I said to President Macron..."

"But did he listen to you?"

"No, he never listens to anyone these days."

2. Things are so bad here that we have to go busking on the streets and have had to get the dog to wear a dress and dance

Please send us lots of money.

PS The dog neither likes dressing up or dancing.

TWO GREEK ONES FROM KATERINA -- THANKS AGAIN.

1. 'South-east side of the royal Peristyle', Vergina, Greece

In the words of Katerina, 'Just a lot of OLD STONES'

(In the words of Val, 'Just a lot of boring old stones')

2. 'General view of Halkis', in Evia, north of Athens, Greece

(General View was a famous Greek soldier, and a contemporary of General Electric, General Motors, General Dynamics, General Mills and other American military heros)

GREEK THEATER, GREEK DRAMA, GREEK TRAGEDY -- Boring Postcards from Katerina; Boring Text from Val

1. The Theater, Dodone, Greece (on 1 June, 1985)

There's no-one there. The Drama/Tragedy:Comedy has yet to begin.

2. The Theater, Dodone, Greece (on 1 June, 1985)

Well, something's happening -- or has happened. There's one actor standing in the middle of the Theater, and  two others to the actor's left at the edge of the inner ring. These must make up the cast, so it's not a very big production.

At the far left and front of the Boring Postcard are six other people. These must be the audience. Are they coming to the play or are they going? Whatever, there's lots and lots of empty seats, so the performance was probably not a geat success. Hence the tragic nature of this Boring Postcard.

Hahaha...happy to see these boring Greek postcard arrived, Val!

Glad you found them interestingly boring :-)

THREE TURKISH BORING POSTCARDS FROM J-P GILLIOT -- Merci beaucoup, J-P!

1. Alaçati

2. Bozburun

3. Turkiye

4 or 5 photos on each of these Boring Postcards, and almost all of the small photos are...boring!

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA --thanks, thanks, thanks, Mikel

1. Passage du metro devant La Tour Eiffel

Seen one Eiffel picture, a,d seen them all. But the train makes this view different -- but not really interesting.

So here's another Eiffel Tower one from Mikel...

2. Exposition des Arts Decoratifs -- Vue de Nuit

Not a lot of Decoratif Arts in sight, so onwards to Spain...

3. 'Nocturnal view of the Toral Square', Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Visited this Square a  number of times when I was in SdeC, but, alas, I didn't get included in this Boring Postcard

THE WOODBROOK PATH, MOUNTFIELDS, LOUGHBOROUGH, ENGLAND -- FROM ALAN B, who asks "Is this Postcard Boring?"

Yes, Alan, it is Boring. Hope you enjoyed your morninng walk there.

Nowy Sącz Voivodeship (Region) - a unit of administrative division existing in 1975-1998. Located in the southern part of Poland, on the border with Slovakia (until 1992 with Czechoslovakia). It bordered the Krosno Region to the east, the Tarnów and Kraków Region to the north and the Bielsko Voivodeship to the west. The seat of the Region authorities was Nowy Sącz. Postcard sent in 1986 .

ANOTHER ONE FROM KATERINA -- this time Oakland Auto Court, Oakland CA, USA

"One block from US Highway No 250 at 88th Avz. No traffic disturbance, restful surroundings, pleasing accomodation. 30 attractive, homelike cottages with all modern facilities, including provate telephone service and attached garages. Some cottages have kitchenettes. Two blocks to stores and restaurant. 20 minutes to downtown Oakland. Phone...."

LE PUY DE DOME -- LE SOMMET (1,465 m), France

Moutain stages of the Tour de France often finish here -- you can see why!

LA FORET LANDAISE, LA LANDEA, FRANCE -- the only mildly interesting (ha!) thing about this Boring Postcard is to be found at the base of the tree, front left. Either someone has extracted some sap from the tree, or a picnic-er has left behind a couple of cups.

LA TOUR, GUISE, FRANCE -- even the sheep isn't interested in the Tower

(SNOW) BALLS! GRENOBLE, FRANCE -- when the fountain froze up

THE NEEDLE AND THE AVAL DOOR, ETRETAT, NORMANDY, FRANCE -- aka   rocks'n'holes

OK, SO WE'VE GOT 2 GUITARS AND 4 SINGERS, SO ALL WE NEED IS A DRUMMER AND A FEW MORE MUSICIANS AND WE'RE IN BUSINESS.....OR 3IT'S ONLY ROCK'N'RILL, BUT I LIKE IT, LIKE IT, YES I DO"

CHATEAU-THIERRY, AISNE, FRANCE -- The famous 17th century French poet Jean de la Fontaine was born here, and the Chateau is now a museum

AERIAL VIEW OF THE THERMAL CENTER AT BLENOD-LES-PONT-A-MOUSSON, FRANCE (and the architect was Jean Payeton, who possibly won a medal or two for it).

INSTRUCTION CENTER FOR AUXILIARY GENDARMES, AUXRRE, FRANCE ('auxiliaries' at Auwerre -- ha!)

LE CRET DE CHALAME, JURA, FRANCE

LE FUNICULAIRE DU SALON DU CAPUCIN (alt:1,643m), MONT-DORE, PUY-DE-DOME, FRANCE

THREE FROM THRANCE

1. Flowery Garden (with empty red recliner), Ile de Bréhat

2. Lots of campsites at Cromenach

3. Le Pont de l'Abime, Les Gorges du Loup, Cote d'Azur

EXCAVATIONS OF SALT FOUNTAINS, ST-PIERRE-SOUS-VEZELAY, FRANCE

1. Hot public swimming Gallo-Roman baths for Gallo-Roman men

2. Ornamental Lake Worship Holy Bath, 1st century BC

THREE MORE FROM THREE COUNTRIES FROM THE ONE AND ONLY MIKEL UNTZILLA -- thanks, thanks, thanks

1 .Gateway of India and Taj Mahal Hotel, Bombay, India

2. Salou, Costa Daurada, Spain

3. The Queen's Guard's Hall, Chateau de Versailles, France (with ceiling painted by Noel Coypel)

SIX BORING POSTCARDS FOUND AT A SUNDAY FLEA MARKET IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE TODAY

1. Splendid Hotel (sic), Therems, France

2. Gentiane flowers, Auvergne mountains, France

3.Le Puy de Come and the Puy de Dome volcanos, Auvergne, France

4. Le Puy de Dome volcano (again), Auvergne, France

5. Glacier (4,208m) Chamonix Mont-Blance, Haute-Savoie, France

6. Grand St Barnard Hospice, Mont Blanc, Switzerland

A few more boring cards are on their way to you today.
Thanks for the reminder. 
Mim

My 'problem' with boring cards is the fact that postcards, which at first sight I think boring, come to live when I put off my -2 glasses and see the nice details...

While my reptile brain thinks 'boring', my human brain concluders that 'The' boring card hardly exists... 

But I'll have a try to find cards which keep on being boring at second sight and of course I then must send them to you, Val.

Season's Greetings¡

Thanks Heleen,

I suggest you read my very first introductry comment to Boring Postcards on page 84 of this Group.

When I find a box of postcards at a flea market, I flick through them quickly to see if there are any boring ones. It's a quick and basically non-intellectual process -- 'Is this postcard boring or not?'

Later, when I get to look at these postcards more critically I think 'Well there might be something of interest here'. And sometimes there is. But most often there isn't.

Last comment: there is a danger of over-intellectualising this and making it to arty-farty. Keep It Simple Folks. Andd Keep It Boring, too

"I LOVE HOLLAND"  ....but not hot dogs.... FROM HELEEN

Message from Heleen to Val:

"OK. After thorough research I concluded this postcard is boring. If only the stroopwafels [the biscuits, bottom left] would have been real stroopwafels, this card would have been less boring (I love stroopwafels), but in this case this card wouldn't have reached you because it would have been eaten."

Message from Val to Heleen:

"Thanks. It's a strange card. In fact it's 4 Boring mini-Pöstcards. And then it's not obvious that each of the four bits have anything, or much, to do with Holland. Are the sweets traditionally Dutch? Not in my experience. Are these yellow discs cheeses? They could be curling pucks. Are the black things supposed to be clogs/klompen? They look more like Crocs:  clogs should be wooden and unpainted. And the stroopwafels? No comment...I don't like them, they stick in my teeth."

And then, about the postage stamp there is more....

Heleen writes:

"ugly boring stamp, too. (I don't like meat/hotdogs...and don't like that artist either)"

Val writes:

I,wonder why i) the Dutch Post Office decided to put this image on one of it's postage stamps,and ii) why it couldn't find a Dutch artist/stamp designer instead of an American one? iii) It looks to me mofre like a stripey rocket emerging from a rugby ball or American football. (Or even a stripey condom emerging from....)

Thanks Heleen!

Lake Rożnowskie, Zalew Rożnowski - a dam reservoir in the Małopolskie Voivodeship, created by damming up the Dunajec River. It was built to even out the flow of the river and to reduce the flood wave , and consequently the Vistula River. The investment was accelerated by a catastrophic flood in 1934. The Rożnowskie Lake, created in 1941, is an attractive reservoir for tourists. Its developed shoreline and steep, largely wooded shores make it a place with a diverse landscape. There are several tourist and summer resorts along the lake Postcard sent in 1977.

SIX MORE FROM MIM -- ANDD SIX LOTS OF THANKS TO MIM!

1.Arlington Cemetery, Washington DC, USA

2.Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC, USA

"The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery is set in a paved format Terrace, rising above a sweep of green lawn and attended by a lone sentinel keeping his constant vigil. The rear panel of the white marble tomb bears this insctription: Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known to God. It stands today as a memorial to all American soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in WW 1."

3. Old World Pavilion at the Jameston Festival, VA, USA

"Showing the patio of the Mermaid Tavern in the foreground. The 'Old World Heritage' exhibit, presented by the British Government, portrays events that led to the first permanent English settlement in North America, at Jamestown, VA, on May 13, 1607."

4.  Farmville Methodist Church Farmville, VA, USA

5. Dining Room, Showing Washington Collection, Washington HQ

6. Titania's Veil, Luray, VA, USA

"The beautiful caverns of Luray.... Here beneaty the earth's crust are scenes of awe-inspiiring  beauty. Parts of the Caverns are as much as 300 feet uderground. This colorful display captures the spirit in name and mind."

HOWEVER, AND WHICHEVER,WAY I LOOK AT THIS BORING POSTCARD

.....Iook at the paintings on the wall, the clothese that the people are wearing, the way they are standing, but my eyes seem to be inevitably draw to the tiny display of cleavage of the lady in black.

But I probably shouldn't mention that on this family-friendly site, so instead I will look at some more modestly dressed young ladies (and a couple of men) from Tahiti...

2. "Otea" Dancing Girls

"Oteea"? Oh yeah!

FRENCH GOOSE -- THINKING ABOUT GETTING STUFFED WITH SWEET CORN, AND THEN BEING STUFFED (fOrce-fed) WITH SWEET CORN. HOW SWEET!  WELL MAYBE NOT FOR THE GOOSE . HOW CORNY? YES!

A VERY BORING POSTCARD INDEED -- which, to me, raises lots of questions about why on earth anyone would want to produce a Postcard featuring a dozen shrimps, let alone how they managed to get the shrimps to arrane themselves in such a neat formation. Perhaps there is an alternative universe of anf for shrimps and their Postcards? Any ideas?

I'm surprised you didn't know about the National Norwegian Shrimp Ballet? 

BORING POSTCARD OF BORED LOOKING DOG...PLUS VAL'S CAT TAKING NO NOTICE OF THE POSTCARD ON HIS FOOT

Hi Carien, I'm surpised that you think the shrimps are ballet-ing. I thought they were in some sort of sports game, maybe getting ready for the 2024 Olympics. Are you really, really sure that they are Norwegian?

After a quick research online the shrimps on the card can either be Vannamei (Asian) or from Argentina. Either way, their choreography is pretty outstanding, don't you agree?

Btw, what is the name of your cat? And does your cat like shrimps? What shrimps in particular?

BORING POSTCARDS OF ME AND MY NON-ELECTRIC WALKINg FRAME

Bonjour Carien,

My SIamese cat is called Mr. Boots.

Why? Firstly, because he has very dark feets (and points) and they look like Boots. Secondly, because of Puss in Boots. And thirdly, to annoy the French and  remind them of Wellington...and his Boots.

Do you have a cat?

Miao, Mao et Moi

We had 3 cats, called Sunny, Luna and Desmo. They are deceased. The cat on the picture is a guest cat called Morrigan. She lives in the neighborhood but she likes to visit us for a hug and a nap.

TWO VERY BORING STILL LIFE POSTCARDS

1. La Cruche2.Haementhus mit Kniphofle

TWO FROM PETER WILSON --who said he 'had' to send them to me. Thanks, Peter!

1. Entrance to the Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Ohio, USA

"One of the largest and busiest municipally-owned airports in the world. [in 1980 -- doesn't seem all THAT big]. Covers approx 1,700 acres. Planes available for all points. Site of NASA and Lewis Research Centre."

2. Zanesville Municipal Airport, Ohio

"Located 6 miles east of Zanesville with modern facilities offers to the SE Ohio area --passengers, freight and charter services as provided by Lake Central Airlines and SE Ohio Air Service, Inc"

THREE MORE FROM MIKAEL -- thanks, thanks, thanks

1. Jumbo Floating Restaurant, China (I think)

2. Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, Spain

3. Musée des Colonies, Exposition Coloniale Internationale,1931,  Paris, France

TWO FROM KARIEN -- bedankt, bedankt

1. General Assembly Hall, United Nations, NY, USA

Another busy day for international diplomats!

2. 'De Cantharel' Motel-Restaurant, Apeldoorn, Holland

Sorry 'Karien', that should have been 'Carien'!