An Update (from the Mountains)

I haven't been updating the blog because I've been occupied with work and also because I'm currently in Nepal. This place is awesome, seriously! 

I'm in Nagarkot right now (32 kilometers from the capital, Kathmandu). Here are a few photos from my trip so far:

in the ancient city of Bhaktapur, around 20 kilometers from Kathmandu

a view of the Himalayas from my [very lucky] airplane seat

the view from our hotel in Nagarkot (where I'm staying right now)

Postcard Weekly 04-19-2013

I received four postcards this week!

This is my first maxicard. I've been stumbling across the term "maxicard" in Postcrossing but it was only last week that I decided to look it up the internet. Basically, maxicards (or maximum cards) are postcards whose postage stamps are very similar or related to the picture on the postcard. The postage stamps are ON the face of the postcard and not at the back.

Anyway, back to the postcard, this is from Melbourne, Australia. It's called Puffing Billy, a tourist railway built in 1900 that runs 25 kilometers. Trivia: this postcard traveled from Melbourne to Manila for only 4 days!

This one is from Portugal. It's the "largest inland fortification bastion in the world". 

This is Arkhanpelsk City in Russia.

Lastly, here is a postcard of Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia, Canada. According to the card, this place is "home to 40 people all-year round [but] thousands will visit each year". Forty people sounds like a typical classroom to me haha.

Postcard Weekly 04-12-2013

Three postcards!

This is a postcard of Blarney Castle in Cork, Ireland. I've been interested in this country ever since I watched the movie Leap Year. That movie is where I saw the beautiful scenery of Ireland.

Here is a postcard of a painting called Full Moon by Paul Klee (1879-1940) from Germany.

Finally, a Harry Potter postcard from Vermont, USA. Hurray for Harry Potter! :)

File got a bit messed up for some reason but the postcard is neat IRL.