United Kingdom - England - Goodison Park

Goodison Park is home to Premier League club Everton since its completion in 1892.

Sent by myself during my trip to Liverpool in May 2019.

Goodison Park is a football stadium in Walton, Liverpool, England, it was the home of Premier League club Everton from 1892 until 2025. It is now the home of Everton's women's team. It is 2 miles (3 km) north of the city centre, and has an all-seated capacity of 39,414.

Goodison Park has hosted more top-flight games than any other stadium in England. It has also been the venue for an FA Cup Final and numerous international fixtures, including a semi-final match in the 1966 World Cup (read more).

United Kingdom - England - Anfield Stadium

Anfield has been the home of Liverpool FC since its formation in 1892.

Sent by myself during my trip to Liverpool. I watched Liverpool played against Wolverhampton Wanderers for the last game of the Season 2018-19. Liverpool won 2-0 and finished second behind Manchester City.

Anfield is a football stadium in the area of Anfield, Liverpool, England, which has been the home of Liverpool F.C. since its formation in 1892. The stadium has a seating capacity of 61,276, making it the fifth largest stadium in England. It was originally the home of Everton from 1884 to 1891, before they moved to Goodison Park after a dispute with the club president.

The stadium has four stands: the Spion Kop, the Main Stand, the Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand and the Anfield Road End. The record attendance of 61,905 was set at a match between Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1952. The ground converted to an all-seater stadium in 1994 as a result of the Taylor Report, which reduced its capacity (read further).

United Kingdom - England - Maritime Mercantile City (4)

The Royal Albert Dock Liverpool was opened in 1846.

Sent by myself during my trip to Liverpool in 2019.

This is my fourth postcard of the same UNESCO World Heritage Site. My other three are here, here, and here.

USA - Indiana - State Capitol Building

INDIANA STATE CAPITOL BUILDING

Indianapolis, Indiana

The statue of Oliver P. Morton, Civil War Governor of Indiana from 1861-1867, stands at the Market Street entrance. This Neo Roman structure with its Corinthians columns was constructed in 1878-88 at a cost of 2 million dollars. The building's most distinguishing feature was the gold dome, which was 72 feet in diameter and rises to a height of 234 feet above ground.

Sent by @jocrafts from Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

The Indiana Statehouse is the state capitol building of the U.S. state of Indiana. It houses the Indiana General Assembly, the office of the Governor of Indiana, the Indiana Supreme Court, and other state officials. The Statehouse is located in the capital city of Indianapolis at 200 West Washington Street. Built in 1888, it is the fifth building to house the state government.

The first statehouse, located in Corydon, Indiana, is still standing and is maintained as a state historic site. The second building was the old Marion County courthouse which was demolished and replaced in the early 20th century. The third building was a structure modeled on the Parthenon, but was condemned in 1877 because of structural defects and razed so the current statehouse could be built on its location (read more).

USA - New York - United Nations Headquarters

UNITED NATIONS POSTAL ADMINISTRATION

NEW YORK CITY

UN HEADQUARTERS

Sent by Helen from San Francisco, California, USA.

The postcard was mailed and postmarked at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Thanks for the beautiful UN stamp.

My other four UN New York postcards are here, here, here, and here.

UN Stamp

Russia - Yaroslavl Oblast - Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl

Yaroslavl. Church of Elijah the Prophet.

Sent by Marina from Yaroslavl, Russia.

Situated at the confluence of the Volga and Kotorosl Rivers some 250 km north-east of Moscow, the historic city of Yaroslavl developed into a major commercial centre from the 11th century. It is renowned for its numerous 17th-century churches and is an outstanding example of the urban planning reform Empress Catherine the Great ordered for the whole of Russia in 1763. While keeping some of its significant historic structures, the town was renovated in the neoclassical style on a radial urban master plan. It has also kept elements from the 16th century in the Spassky Monastery, one of the oldest in the Upper Volga region, built on the site of a pagan temple in the late 12th century but reconstructed over time (read more).

The Netherlands - Queen Wilhemina

Willy Martens (1856 - 1927) / Queen Wilhemina in the garden of Soestdijk Palace.

Sent by Laura from Zwolle, Netherlands.

Wilhelmina (Dutch pronunciation: [ʋɪlɦɛlˈminaː] ; Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in Dutch history, as well as the longest-reigning female monarch outside the United Kingdom. Her reign saw World War I, the Dutch economic crisis of 1933 and World War II.

The only surviving child of King William III of the Netherlands and Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Wilhelmina ascended the throne at the age of 10 after her father's death in 1890, under her mother's regency. After taking charge of government, Wilhelmina became generally popular for maintaining Dutch neutrality during the First World War and solving many of her country's industrial problems. By that time, her business ventures had made her the world's first female billionaire as measured by U.S. dollars (read more).

Austria - Vienna

Vienna, AUSTRIA.

Sent by Helga and Leopold from Austria.

My other postcards of Vienna is here.

Vienna (/viˈɛnə/  vee-EN-ə; German: Wien [viːn] ; Austro-Bavarian: Wean [veɐ̯n]) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the cultural, economic, and political center of the country, the fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the cities on the river Danube.

The city lies on the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods (Wienerwald), the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps, that separate Vienna from the more western parts of Austria, at the transition to the Pannonian Basin. It sits on the Danube, and is traversed by the highly regulated Wienfluss (Vienna River). Vienna is completely surrounded by Lower Austria, and lies around 50 km (31 mi) west of Slovakia and its capital Bratislava, 60 km (37 mi) northwest of Hungary, and 60 km (37 mi) south of Moravia (Czech Republic) (read more).

Germany - Bavaria - Erlangen

Greetings From Erlangen
Evening Market Square

Sent by Claudia from Erlangen, Germany.

Erlangen (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁlaŋən] ; Mainfränkisch: Erlang, Bavarian: Erlanga) is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative district Erlangen), and with 119,810 inhabitants (as of 30 September 2024), it is the smallest of the eight major cities (Großstadt) in Bavaria. The number of inhabitants exceeded the threshold of 100,000 in 1974, making Erlangen a major city according to the statistical definition officially used in Germany.

Together with Nuremberg, Fürth, and Schwabach, Erlangen forms one of the three metropolises in Bavaria. With the surrounding area, these cities form the European Metropolitan Region of Nuremberg, one of 11 metropolitan areas in Germany. The cities of Nuremberg, Fürth, and Erlangen also form a triangle on a map, which represents the heartland of the Nuremberg conurbation (read more).

USA - Mapcard

Mapcard of USA.

National Bird : Bald Eagle

National Anthem : The Star-Spangled Banner

National Flower : Rose

National Language : English

Independence Day : July 4, 1776

Capital : Washington D.C.

Population : 319,000,000

Territory : 3,805, 927 sq mi

First president : George WAshington

Largest State : Alaska

Smallest State : Rhode Island

Largest City : New York City

Sent by Tom from Boones Hill in Virginia, USA.

USA - New Mexico

NEW MEXICO

LAND OF ENCHANTMENT

Sent by Barney Family from Albuquerque in New Mexico, USA.

I received the same postcard 14 years ago from different sender. It is here.

Germany - Saxony - Leipzig (3)

Greetings from Leipzig.

Sent by Juliane from Leipzig, Germany.

My other two postcards of Leipzig are here and here.

Germany - Brandenburg - Commercial Vehicle Show 2023

IFA W 50 L and L 60 for the 6th Commercial Vehicle Show in Horstwalde on 13th August 2023.

Sent by Ulrich from Bonn, Germany.

The IFA W 50 is a medium-duty truck built by the East German IFA conglomerate at their Ludwigsfelde plant from 1965 until 1990. A total of about 572,000 were built in Ludwigsfelde, with an unknown additional number of special-use vehicles assembled at other plants. It was meant to be succeeded by the IFA L 60 but outlived it by several months. IFA ended all truck production on 17 December 1990, following the reunification of Germany (read more).

Germany - Brandenburg - Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin

New Palace

Sanssouci Palace and Park, Potsdam.

Sent by Elke from Berlin, Germany

With 500 ha of parks and 150 buildings constructed between 1730 and 1916, Potsdam's complex of palaces and parks forms an artistic whole, whose eclectic nature reinforces its sense of uniqueness. It extends into the district of Berlin-Zehlendorf, with the palaces and parks lining the banks of the River Havel and Lake Glienicke. Voltaire stayed at the Sans-Souci Palace, built under Frederick II between 1745 and 1747 (read more).

USA - Washington - Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

Interior of world famous Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Ferry Dock Pier 52, Seattle 4, Wasington, USA, on Seattle's historic waterfront. In the foreground is "Sylvester" the mummy and Cigar Store Indian. Most unique shop in the world, "Beats the Dickens". Established 1899.

Sent by Lisa from Sacramento in California, USA.

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop is a store founded in 1899, on the Central Waterfront of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is currently located on Pier 54. Best known today as a souvenir shop and museum, it also has aspects of a dime museum, and is an important supplier of Northwest Coast art to museums. As of 2008, the store has been owned by four generations of the same family.

In 1933, the Seattle Star named Ye Olde Curiosity Shop one of the "Seven Wonders of Seattle", the only shop on the list. The other six Wonders were the harbor, the Ballard Locks, the Boeing airplane factory, the Seattle Art Museum, the Pike Place Market and the University District's Edmond Meany Hotel (now the Graduate Seattle hotel). (read more)

USA - Alabama - State Bird

SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Colaptes auratus
OTHER NAMES:  Yellow-shafted flicker, red-shafted flicker, common flicker.

STATUS:  Breeder. Fairly common to uncommon in all seasons and regions. Designated the offical state bird by the Alabama Legislature. MODERATE CONSERVATION CONCERN.

Sent by Michelle from Dallas in Texas, USA.

The northern flicker or common flicker (Colaptes auratus) is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. Over 100 common names for the northern flicker are known, including yellowhammer (not to be confused with the Eurasian yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)), clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names derive from attempts to imitate some of its calls. It is the state bird of Alabama (known by its colloquial name "yellowhammer") (read more)

Remarkable Women #3 - Elisabetta Sirani

ELISABETTA SIRANI
(1638 - 1665)

Sent by Gorab from Bengaluru, India.

Elisabetta Sirani (8 January 1638 – 28 August 1665) was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker who died in unexplained circumstances at the age of 27. She was one of the first women artists in early modern Bologna, who became a successful painter, producing public altarpieces as well as privately commissioned pictures.

Elisabetta Sirani was born in Bologna on 8 January 1638, the first of four children of Margherita and Giovanni Andrea Sirani. Giovanni was an art merchant and painter of the School of Bologna, having been a favorite assistant of Guido Reni. He did not produce many works during his lifetime; instead, he took over Reni's job as a teacher, and became the master in the first life school held in the house of Ettore Ghislieri (read more).

France - Tour de France 2025 : 3rd Stage (Valenciennes to Dunkirk)

Tour de France 2025

Third Stage : Valenciennes to Dunkirk (7th July)

Sent by Jean-Paul from Nantua, France.

The 2025 Tour de France is the upcoming 112th edition of the Tour de France. It will start in Lille on 5 July, and will finish with the final stage at Champs-Élysées, Paris, on 27 July (read more).

USA - Wildlife In Southwestern Desert

WILDLIFE IN SOUTHWESTERN DESERT.

Sent by Yajaira from New Mexico, USA.

The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. The largest cities by metropolitan area are Phoenix, Las Vegas, El Paso, Albuquerque, and Tucson. Before 1848, in the historical region of Santa Fe de Nuevo México as well as parts of Alta California and Coahuila y Tejas, settlement was almost non-existent outside of New Mexico's pueblos and Spanish or Mexican municipalities. Much of the area had been a part of New Spain and Mexico until the United States acquired the area through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 and the smaller Gadsden Purchase in 1854 (read more).

Bicycle (53)

Sent by Sinisitikas from Estonia.

Bicycle (52)

Sent by Martina from Hamburg, Germany.

Bicycles (51)

Which two bikes have a flat tire?

Sent by Gabriele from Leverkusen, Germany.

Swimwear #11 - Boomerang Beach Pacific Palms

Boomerang Beach Pacific Palms, NSW, Australia.

Sent by Jeroen from Nijmegen, Netherlands.

USA - California - Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary

ALCATRAZ ISLAND SAN FRANCISCO BAY
Once a federal prison for notorious crriminals, the island is now part of the National Park System, and can be visited on tours leaving from Fisherman's Wharf.

Sent by Hannah from Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: /ˈælkəˌtræz/, Spanish: [alkaˈtɾas] "the gannet") or the Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The site of a fort since the 1850s, the main prison building was built in 1910–12 as a U.S. Army military prison.

The United States Department of Justice acquired the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Pacific Branch, on Alcatraz on October 12, 1933. The island became adapted and used as a prison of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in August 1934 after the buildings were modernized and security increased. Given this high security and the island's location in the cold waters and strong currents of San Francisco Bay, prison operators believed Alcatraz to be escape-proof and America's most secure prison (read more).

India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Havelock Island

These are few postcards left from my early this year trip to Havelock Island which is part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India.

All blank unaddressed postcards are internationally stamped and cancelled on 2nd January 2025, at the Post Office in the island. If you are interested, the postcard will then be mailed inside an envelope.

Five (5) pieces of blank postcards.

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POSTCARD 2

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POSTCARD 3

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POST OFFICE IN HAVELOCK ISLANDS