BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Raphael Nadolny 16 hours ago

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

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on Sunday

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?!)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 19, 2025 at 10:54am

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

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 19, 2025 at 4:37am

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,

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 18, 2025 at 12:54pm

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!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on February 18, 2025 at 12:44pm

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

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 4, 2025 at 1:03pm

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

( with a steeple but no people...)

from Franny Wahinehae

Comment by Maggie Makri on January 28, 2025 at 11:38pm

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.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on January 26, 2025 at 11:52am

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)

Comment by Raphael Nadolny on January 20, 2025 at 1:51pm

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

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