Thursday Postcard Hunt: Maps

“Thursday Postcard Hunt” is hosted by Violet @ See It On A Postcard
This month’s themes:

  • Week 1 – UNESCO
  • Week 2 – Sculptures or statues
  • Week 3 – Illustrations
  • Week 4 –Maps
  • Week 5 – Halloween, Orange and Black

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards! Simply link to See It On A Postcard by leaving a comment.


Postcard from New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and over 700 smaller islands.

Postcards from Great Britain

Housework, 1955 by Editions Rossignol
In the Welsh language Wales is actually Cymru pronounced Cumree; it is actually the English speakers who call Wales Cymru. The word literally means “a fellow-countryman”. 
The name Wales is from the Germanic word “Walha” meaning foreigner which is the Anglo Saxon name for the Welsh, strangely the invaders called the inhabitants of the country foreigners
Samos is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, separated from Turkey by the mile-wide Mycale Strait. It was the birthplace of the mathematician Pythagoras and the philosopher Epicurus, and is known for producing sweet Muscat wine.

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