BORING POSTCARDS

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 ?

THREE FRM KATERINA -- Thanks once again!

1. Algarve Portugal

2. Village Floating Resto & Cruises, Bohol Philippines (from Dean to Katerina; from Katerina to Val; from Val to IUOMA)

3. Meze Restaurant, Athens, Greece

THREE FROM MIKEL -- Thanks yet again!

1. Cathedral, Amiens, France

2. SIgnal Fire

"Signal Fire raises the cultural value of the natural world by connecting artists to our remaining wild places." Get connected folks!

3. Lotus & Waterbirds --  detail from C1300 Chinese Hanging Scroll, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA

Pyongyang - the capital and largest city of North Korea, three postcards, probably about 1980.

CANOES: BORING POSTCARD OF L'ETANG DE LA FARGETTE, ST-GERMAIN-L'HERM, FRANCE.... PLUS PAINTING (OF WHITE CANOE) BY PETER DOIG FOR COMPARISON

Another "Dull DownUnder" one. Can't get enough of hunting for these now.

TWO BORING AMERICAN POSTCARDS FROM PETER WILSON....

who writes "As I always say, boring is in the eye of the behoder. Lately, I've found some of the boring postcards posted on IUOMA interesting". THANKS PETER!

1. Ohio at Night (what's it like during the day, Peter?)

2. Having Fun! (So this is what Ohio is like during daytime!)

Koło, town in central part of Poland, postcard about 1980.

A BORING POSTCARD FROM "DOWN UNDER" -- YORK, WESTERN AUTRALIA FROM HELEN AYMES -- THANKS HELEN

"This postcard is from our news agency. It's the only postcard in York where I live and I think it's pretty dull," writes Helen, about what sounds like a not very exciting place to live . But the York Roses are nice.

Siemiatycze, a city in northeastern Poland, near the border with Belarus. The postcard was mailed in 1971.

POSTCARDS OF SALASPILS CONCENTRATION CAMP FROM ILYA SEMENK-BASIN -- MANY THANKS ILYA!  (Part 1 here, part 2 to follow later).

"The Salapils concentration camp was the largest place of imprisonment and mass-scale extermination of people in the hitlerite-occupied Baltic [Latvia]. During the camp's existence -- from October 1941 to October 1944 -- both there and at the Soviet war prisoners' camp which was situated nearbye, more than 100,000 people were killed including about 7,000 children."

0. Memorial statues

1. Monument to the Soviet Prisoners of War

2. Interior of the Salaspils Museum

3. "Beyond this gate the earth moves"

4. Solidarity,.Solemn Oath. Rot Front.

5. Salaspils

6. The Unbroken.

PART 2 OF POSTCARDS OF SALASPILS CONCENTRATION CAMP FROM ILYA SEMENK-BASIN -- MANY THANKS ILYA!

"The Salapils concentration camp was the largest place of imprisonment and mass-scale extermination of people in the hitlerite-occupied Baltic [Latvia]. During the camp's existence -- from October 1941 to October 1944 -- both there and at the Soviet war prisoners' camp which was situated nearbye, more than 100,000 people were killed including about 7,000 children."

7. Site of the former gallows

8. Mother

9. At the site of the childrens' barracks

10. Salaspils

11. The Humiiated.

12.Salaspils

MORE FROM ILYA SEMENK-BASIN. The last ones in a group he sent me. Thanks Ilya!

1. Celebrating 20 years of DDR & USSR friendship from Dresden

Golden Room, Teremnol Palace, Moscow, USSR

Roses greeting card, USSR

Siemiatycze, town in east parto of Poland, former Red Army street, postcard from 1971.

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL --THANKS AGAIN MIKEL!

1. Cascade/waterfall -- Ordesa National Park, Spain

2. Nocturnal view of the Rua del Villar Arches, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

3. 'Lost in the Sea'

Zielona Góra (Grünberg in Schlesien) a city in the western part of Poland, celebration of the grape harvest festival, postcard from the 1980s.

Zielona Gora is known as the Polish capital of wine. It used to be the northernmost area in Europe with grape cultivation. The likely beginnings of the city's wine-making traditions date back to 1150, when settlers from Franconia arrived in Zielona Gora and brought cuttings and wine-growing skills.

Parachute, Colorado USA is a small town close to Rifle. My parents picked up 2 postcards there when they went to visit some boring commercial store there.

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Łuków, town in east part of Poland, postcard sent to Sweden in 1989. 

STATUE OF FILITOSA V1, 2000 BC, SOLLACARO, CORSICA, FRANCE

HOLLAND -- TULIPS,  A WINDMILL, & SOME KIND OF BARN

'SOUVENIR OF BALI, INDONESIA'

BORING LONDON POSTCARD -- From Julie and Francis

om Julie and Francis

ANOTHER 3 FROM MIKEL -- Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! Once again.

1. Fountain of the Ocha Canos, Ronda, Spain

2. Mallorca, Spain

3.The Walls of Tarifa, Spain

Sarbinowo, on the beach, Baltic Sea, postcard about 1967.

One from the West Australian Wheatbelt.

Naleczow - a spa town in southeastern Poland near Lublin. Naleczow is the only spa in Poland with an exclusively cardiological profile.In the center of the city is a 25-hectare Spa Park with a pond and with historical buildings. Postcard sent in 1984.

THREE SUNNY SPANISH ONES FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA -- THANKS ONCE AGAIN MIKEL!

1. Mela Square, with Africa , Tarifa, Spain

2. The Guadalevin Valley seen from the Tojo Canyon, Ronda, Spain

3. s'Amador, Mallorca, Spain

THREE WINTERY ONES FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA --- Brrr! THANKS!

1. Pico Aspe, Spain

2. Pico Valdecoro, Spain

3. Teleferico de Fuente, Spain

Opole Lubelskie, town in east-south part of Poland. Postcard from the 1980.  

FROM HELEEN -- WALD-HOTEL, WILLINGEN, GERMANY -- Bedankt, Heleen!

"It's from Ingrid", says Heleen, but doesn't know which Ingrid.

This hotel is in a winter-sports area, and is 700m above sea level.

Herleen says that the highest hill in ther Netherlands (whe she lives) is about 300m above sea level. It can be found in Drielandpunt, Zuid Limburg (where I used to live).

(That part of the Netherlands is most decidely NOT flat, and cycling up and down the short sharp hils can be very tiring and/or great exercise . See the course of the Amstel Gold cycle race for more information)

Hello, I would like to share an interesting one I found a year ago in a second hand store. According to google:

"Another Victory for the Forces of Darkness" is a haunting and evocative painting by Baron József Koppay, a Hungarian artist celebrated for his symbolic and dramatic works. Created during the late 19th or early 20th century, this artwork embodies the romantic fascination with mysticism, darkness, and the eternal struggle between good and evil that was prevalent during that era.

To be honest I thought it depicted Hades taking Persephone to the underworld.

In the back it says it comes from the town Sochi in russian.

old "boring" yet interesting postcard, of a church,

( with a steeple but no people...)

from Franny Wahinehae

SOME BORING FRENCH POSTCARDS -- from Val. Thank you Val!

1. Old postcard of flowers: sent from and to 'Ma chèrè, Paris in 1911
2. La Pointe de Tira-Peou, La Cote d'Azure, Le Cap de Antibes, France

3. Débarquement en Normandie

(Note the 'shadowy troops' at the top of the postcard)

4. Les Cabanes de Cacharel, La Camargue, France

TRULY AMAZING AND WONDERFUL POSTCARD FROM HELEEN!

I must have looked at thousands of postcards before and since I started this, and think this is one of the weirdest postcards I have ever seen (whether or not it is boring). 

Why do I think it is weird? Firstly, why should anyone want to strap a sort of adapted high chair on to a cow? Secondly, why should the little girl (?) in the high chair be drinking milk that comes directly from the cow's udder? (Probably not allowed today under past-your-eyes- national and Eu legislation). Third, and last, who made this postcard, where and when?

Lots of questions; And lots of thanks to Heleen for sharing it wigth us: hartelijk bedankt!

BITS AND BORING POSTCARDS

1. Hypothetical reconstruction of the discovery of the Dame", La Alcudia de Elche, Spain

2. Ibiza, Spain (any idea who this is?)

3. Republica Dominica

4. The Beach of Djerba, Tunisia
5. Ponta dos Seixas -- "the easternmost tip of the Americas"Djerba,

AND ANOTHER FOUR -- THESE ARE FROM ANNE

1. Camouflage Kids

2. Holiday Village chalets, Guidel, Bretagne, France

3. Pressing St Nazaire cheese with 'le pesadou'

Mme Pesadou with le pesadou?

4. Port-Gentil, France

THREE FROM KATERINA -- Thanks, MomKat!

1. Empty streets in Sofia, Bulgaria

Karerina points out that there is only one person in the four photos (top right). Alas, he was shot for trespassing. So much for jaywalking in Sofia.

2. Union Avenue Christian Church, St Louis, MO, USA

And on the reverse of the Postcard...a prayer

3. The Isthmus, Greece

A couple of observations:

1. note the perfect balance of the parts of this photo --  the train centered over the Isthmus and the two boats. It took Panagiotis, the photographer, four months of patient waiting until he got the compoisition just right

2. it is NOT the Panama Canal, so hands off Donald. (For now?!)

Jánský Vrch Castle is located on a rocky hill above the town and is a natural dominant feature of the town of Javornik in North Bohemia (Rychlebské Mountains). The history of the castle is linked to the Wroclaw bishopric, which owned the castle and the entire Jeseníky region from 1348. Tours of the chateau lead through the representative rooms with an exhibition of a collection of pipes, one of the largest in the Czech Republic. Also valuable is the collection of home textiles found in the chateau, especially the original 150-year-old curtains. Postcards from the 1980s

Australia affectionately known as a "Mine with a View".
2 vintage postcards of Mt Isa Mines NT and Green Island NQ

LOTS OF SOVIET- ERA POSTCARDS FROM ILIA SEMENKO-BASSINE  -- MANY THANKS ILYA, THEY TOOK A LONG TIME (6+ weeks) TO GET HERE

Last but not least the envelope they all came in:

A postcard from the 1980s advertising Polish airlines and the Warsaw airport.

THREE PARISIAN MULTI-PHOTO ONES FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA -- MERCI BEAUCOUP!

FOUR BORING POSTCARDS FROM KATERINA -- MERCY BUCKETS -- WITH KATERINA'S QUESTIONS ( and my silly answers/comments)

1. The Forum Rome: 'Remains of the Temple of Castore and Polluce, with the Arc of Tito in the background"

"Boring Stones, or interesting photo? Who is that lady in red?", asks Katerina.

The stones are indeed quite boring. The lady in red is obviously the subject of Chris de Burgh's 1986 song of the same title, which ends:

'I never will forget the way you look tonight
The lady in red, the lady in red
The lady in red, my lady in red
I love you'

I'm worried about the Arc of Tito -- President Tito of what was once upon a time Yugoslavia? I know he ruled the country for a very long time, but didn't realise his reign started when the Forum was built.

2. Kymi Island Greece: 'A partial view of the port'

'Where are the fishermen?', asks Katerina.

Well, to start with there are no longer 'fishermen' -- they are now 'fisherpersons'. So where are the fisherpersons? Alas, as a result of the EU's Common Fishing Policy, they no longer exist. They are now all Ebay vendors and Twotter 'influencers'.

AND note the red car( which we will soon come aqcross in a different location). AND note that there are now TWO ladies in red. AND note that there is one girl with a red skirt (whom we will meet later).

3. The Harbour, Fira, Santorini, Greece

"Always easy walking down", says Katerina.

Look closely to the right of the boat, and you will see .... a red car (that has driven all the way from Kyli?)

4. Plovdiv Bulgaria

"A card from 1975 not sent", says Katerina; "Plovdiv or Phillopoupoli as the Greeks say..."

( For those of us who do not speak Greece, Plovdiv may be easier...)

AND....the girl with red skirt is here again (bottom left!)

Happy to see they arrived, Val, and you are so observant to see that little red car, :-) Maybe it belongs to the traveling photographer??? It is not orange: