England...

The postcards I will show you today is from England, bought in London on a postcard show called BIPEX - British International Postcard Exhibition, which is a must for postcards fans. For those who are interested - and in London - this years BIPEX is from 3rd - 5th september.
The first card is of Prince of Wales with family in early and happy days. This had a tragic history which ended with the carcrash in Paris that killed Princess Diana. But the postcard is a happy memory of the Princess and a happy family.
The second card is a advertising card for London Underground - the tube. It must be the best underground system in the world, but it need a lot of refurbishing because its very old.

Happy New Year

A new year, with new opportunities – and I will try to update my blog more often.... Today I will show you two old postcards. The first card is of a girl from the tourist-district «Hardanger», and it was sent as a christmascard. The writings of the front says «Merry christmas and a Happy new year» - and this greeting goes to all of you.

The next card is from the place where I live, the card is very old so all the buildings on the card is not here today, even the name on the card «Follesøy» is not in use, today the name is «Follese». To all new(!) readers I can tell that Follese is on an island called Askøy close to Bergen (the 2^nd largest city in Norway).

Ships again,,,

As you all may have noticed I do like boats/ships – and to travel on them. This time I have travelled on the Oslo – Kiel (Germany) route. The route have been quite popular for many years, and the two postcards shows the development of the ships from the 70s till today.

The first card shows «Kronprins Harald» who was build in Germany in 1975 and could carry about 1000 passengers. This ship sailed on this route until 1987, when the ship was sold to a company on Nassau Bahamas. The next ship was a new «Kronprins Harald» which sailed until 2007, when it was sold to an Irish company owned by a company in Nassau (!). In 2004 the ship on the second card - «Color Fantasy» - started sailing.

This was the ship I travelled on one months ago. It was quite an experience like beeing on a cruise ship, with several restaurants, bars, an English pub, a showtheatre, many shops and much more. The ship could accomodate 2700 passengers and they had lots of space. I did really fall in love with that ship, so this was not the last trip with «Color Fantasy».

Postcards from Norway..

The first postcard I show today is from the district «Hardanger» in the western part of Norway. Its famous for tourism, apples and its fjord "Hardangerfjord". The postcard shows a girl in this district's typical national custome, beside the appletrees in full blossom. But «Hardanger» is loosing inhabitants because its lack of work, the young people wants to live in city's so they move out. They can't all live of tourism and apples!

The second postcard shows the bridge between «Haugesund» and the island «Karmøy», also in the western part of Norway. On the island is a place called «Visnes», where it was a coppermine which was one of the biggest in Europe. They produced the copper that was used to make the statue of the Liberty in New York. The island was also famous for many fishermen and fishing boats, but that was some time ago.

Postcards from Copenhagen...

This time I will show two postcards from Copenhagen (København) which I shall visit in the beginning of september. I have loved that city from the first trip I have had to Copenhagen – when I was about 7 years old. I shall stay close to «Tivoli» which the first postcard is from. Tivoli is the most visited sight in Denmark, the postcard shows the concert hall and some of the beautiful garden. In the concerthall many famous artists had performances, one of them was Victor Borge, which many of you I believe has heard of.

The second card shows an outdoor area called Nyhavn, which has a lot of restaurants and lots of «local atmosphere» which the Danes are famous for. I'm exited to go to Copenhagen again, its the closest we Norwegian is to a «world city».

Humour from England..

Today's postcards is about humour in England. The first postcard shows a scene from the popular TV series «Fawlty Towers» with John Cleese in the leading role. I believe this series was popular all over the world, much because of Cleese and his «spanish» waiter Manuel – which was famous for this saying: «I know nothing, I'm from Barcelona»

The second card shows a typical scene from a country pub in England. Even if this is a humour card I belive this scene take place in many pubs around in England. I do like english pubs especially when I can have a «bitter» and «fish and chips», and there is musical entertainment.