This weekend's
Postcards for the Weekend theme is 'Bridges'.
As some of you know, bridges are one of my favourite themes. They connect people, cities and sometimes even countries. No surprise that I
posted several bridge stamps and postcards before.
First I'll take you to Asia, the continent I've never been to myself. Thanks to
postcrossing and to instagram friends I 'traveled' virtually to beautiful places, by receiving and enjoying pretty postcards.
This postcard I received from a Postcrosser from China. The back of this card doesn't say where this bridge is located. The sender lives in Wuhan, so maybe this beautiful, quiet looking place might be in this area.
From my instagram friend Jael I received this postcard from Singapore. All attention, of both the artists and us, card watchers, goes to the
Merlion, but looking close, you can see a bridge on the right. It's one of the bridges over the
Singapore River.
This bridge I drew - as a postcard - for a mail art project in Indonesia. It is the Kahayan bridge in
Palangkaraya, Borneo. I chose to draw it because the
mail art project was in honour of the 60th anniversary of this Indonesian city.
From Asia to Europe.
In Venice there is a lot of water, and fortunately there are bridges, too. Most famous I think the
Bridge of Sighs, but the bridge I received thanks to Rio is a more innocent one:
On the back side she added a matching stamp and postmark, showing a larger bridge from Venice:
From
John I received a nice postcard showing maybe one of the
most well-known bridges:
I replied by this postcard, which to my surprise was available in a local store, here in the Netherlands:
I don't know if it is a good or bad habit, but at least it made and makes me happy: when visiting familiar cities (among them Nijmegen, the city where I grew up, and Murcia in Spain, which is the home city of my brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephew) I sometimes send postcards to myself. Not that many, so far maybe 7 or so, but to my surprise the majority of the postcards show bridges.
Here you can see two bridges over the Rio Segura in Murcia:
This is the Railway bridge over the river Waal in Nijmegen:
The same bridge you can see in the very back of the photo on bottom on this card:
The two other bridges are the
Waalbrug (my favourite bridge as it reminds me of my former 'home'), and a pedestrian bridge, which is new to me.
As a 'dessert' here are some stamps:
A bridge in a winter scene in Finland:
And bridges from Singapore, Hong Kong, Russia and the Netherlands, gathered in one chaincard about this theme:
The stamp bottom left shows a newly built bridge over the forementioined river Waal.
See more bridges at and via this weekend's
Postcards for the Weekend!
