Do you want a cup of coffee?

Postcard ID: NL-2349101
Country: Netherlands

This card is about cups that having pattern of traditional clothes. I don't drink coffee or cacao, but I would be happy to have such cups in my house :)

I like different traditional patterns, they have something interesting and meaningful.

Also this cars contains a stamp of 2014 year:

Stanley Park Totem, Canada

Postcard ID: CA-411406
Country: Canada

This great card was sent to me by Chinese girl Vicky from Canada. When I'm going to Canada I will know the places I should visit ;)

One of the province's most popular attractions is a group of eight totem poles at Brockton Point. Four totem poles were originally brought from Alert Bay and placed at Lumbermen’s Arch in 1924. Some had been carved back in the late 1880s. More totem poles were purchased in the 1920s and 1930s, this time originating from the Queen Charlotte Islands and Rivers Inlet. All of the totem poles were moved to Brockton Point in 1962 to allow the construction of an overhead road at Lumberman's Arch. Many of them have been replaced with replicas, with the originals now kept in museums for preservation. The most recent addition, erected in 2009, was carved by a member of the Squamish Nation whose mother was born in Stanley Park

And look on this beautiful horse on stamp!

Having fun in Indiana!

Postcard ID: US-2612890
Country: USA

This is the 4th map of United States. And as usual, map card is great :)

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America. Indiana is the 38th largest by area and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States. Indiana is the least extensive state in the contiguous United States west of the Appalachian Mountains. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th U.S. state on December 11, 1816.

Before it became a territory, varying cultures of indigenous peoples and historic Native Americans inhabited Indiana for thousands of years. Since its founding as a territory, settlement patterns in Indiana have reflected regional cultural segmentation present in the Eastern United States; the state's northernmost tier was settled primarily by people from New England and New York, Central Indiana by migrants from the Mid-Atlantic states and from adjacent Ohio, and Southern Indiana by settlers from the Southern states, particularly Kentucky and Tennessee.

Indiana has several metropolitan areas with populations greater than 100,000 and a number of smaller industrial cities and towns. Indiana is home to several major sports teams and athletic events including the NFL's Indianapolis Colts, the NBA's Indiana Pacers, the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, and the Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400 motorsports races.

I would like to visit Indianapolis one day.

A stamp is in Christmas theme:

Balloons-macarons

Postcard ID: RU-2463674
Country: Russia

This image looks like a parody on one from Banksy's works. Just here balloons are replaced with macarons :)

These cookies are really popular in Minsk now. I also like it, however sometime it's really expensive for so small thing :)

Meanwhile, I like this card as it's interesting and unusual.

Moreover, Daria found stamp with Russiam Kremlin which I haven't yet!

Vietnam wild flowers

Postcard ID: AU-335937
Country: Australia

This card came to me from Australia, however it shows wild flower from Vietnam. A sender travels so much and decided to make me a surprise with this card. Thank you, Hayley!

As I have received card from Australia quite rarely, I really like the stamps:

Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi, Russia

Postcard ID: RU-2422819
Country: Russia

Olympic Games are finished, but postcards are still in the way :)

I think it was great time. I have a little unusual work hours, so I didn't saw these games, only read about results in news. All Belarus prides our Dasha Domracheva, Anton Kushnir, Nadezhda Skardino and Alla Tsuper. We have the best results in the history of our participating in Olympic Games!

And also we are happy to see Russia on the first place. It's our neighbor, we have common history and we all are from USSR :)

Also this card has the same image on stamp like card! 

Cat Ties by Bernard Oberdieck

Postcard ID: DE-2910944
Country: Germany

Here is one more cat cards to my cats collection :)

It's considered that ties are usually worn by men. However I also have one! A couple years ago our girl-part of collective organized a flashmob: each girl had a tie, a skirt and colored tights. Since that time I had have a tie :)

In addition to these nice cats this card contains a stamp with hedgehogs:

Just tea

Postcard ID: RU-2433105
Country: Russia

I have already written about my love to tea.

However this card with tea and window also reminds me about my trips to Chisinau. The way from Minsk to Chisinau by train takes about 30 hours. You seat at comfortable coupe and look out the window. From the beginning you see so habitual view of Belarus, than nature is a little being changed when you go through Ukraine. Then, you arrive in Moldova and see trees that you haven't seen before :)

Thank you, Nikita, for your card that brought to me these memoirs.

Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina

Postcard ID: AR-17917
Country: Argentina

Today I would like to write about one from the most interesting envelopes I ever received. This is my first card from Argentina. So it's 48th country in my statistics list.

I love cactuses and have some in my room. Selvina sent me whole Valley of cactuses! I really appreciate it :)

The Quebrada de Humahuaca is a narrow mountain valley located in the province of Jujuy in northwest Argentina, 1,649 km north of Buenos Aires. It is about 155 km long, oriented north-south, bordered by the Altiplano in the west and north, by the Sub-Andean hills in the east, and by the warm valleys (Valles Templados) in the south.

The name quebrada (literally "broken") translates as a deep valley or ravine. It receives its name from Humahuaca, a small city of 11,000 inhabitants. The Grande River (Río Grande), which is dry in winter, flows copiously through the Quebrada in the summer.

The region has always been a crossroads for economic, social and cultural communication. It has been populated for 10,000 years, since the settlement of the first hunter-gatherers, which is evidenced by substantial prehistoric remains. It was a caravan road for the Inca Empire in the 15th century, then an important link between the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and the Viceroyalty of Peru, as well as a stage for many battles of the Spanish War of Independence.

The Quebrada de Humahuaca was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2 July, 2003. 

However the most happiness I received from the additional envelope. This small envelope contained Argentinian Pesos! As I collect banknotes of different countries it was absolutely amazing surprise for me :)

Also now I have Argentinian stamps :)

Astrakhan, Russia. An evening melody

Postcard ID: RU-2434431
Country: Russia

This one more mystique card came to me this week. I like winter and like so calm evenings. Especially I like falling snow in the lamplight, however it's not about this card :)

I have never been in Astrakhan yet, but postcrossin can show me a little part if this city :)

Astrakhan is a major city in southern European Russia and the administrative center of Astrakhan Oblast. The city lies on two banks of the Volga River, close to where it discharges into the Caspian Sea at an altitude of 28 meters (92 ft) below sea level. 

Also Astrakhan is sister city of belarusian Brest city :)

A postal stamp is also really interesting:

Tahir Salahov is an Azerbaijani painter and draughtsman. Nowadays he lives in Moscow, where he is a professor and has a studio at the Moscow Art Institute. He has received numerous honors, including People's Artist of USSR, Russia and Azerbaijan, Hero of Socialist Labour, USSR State Prize (1968), First Secretary of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1973–1992), Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Arts, member of over 20 academies and other creative organizations throughout the world, including academies of art of France, Spain, Germany, Austria, etc.

IIHF World Championship

Minsk, the capital of Belarus, will host the 2014 IIHF World Championship.

Belarus got 75 votes in the race for hosting the 2014 IIHF World Championship at the Annual Congress of the International Ice Hockey Federation in Bern and beat the other candidates - Hungary (24 votes), Latvia (3) and Ukraine (3).

The 2014 World Ice Hockey Championship will be held on 9-25 May 2014.

In connection with this event Belpost released a new stamp! I already bought a list of stamps :)

Alley on Karl Marx avenue

Postcard ID: UA-956480
Country: Ukraine

I like night view postcards. It has something mystique and beautiful at the same time. I hope that Ukraine can calm down soon.

Dnepropetrovsk is Ukraine's fourth largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located southeast of Ukraine's capital Kiev on the Dnieper River, in the south-central part of the country. Dnipropetrovsk is the administrative centre of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

A vital industrial centre of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk was one of the key centres of the nuclear, arms, and space industries of the Soviet Union. In particular, it is home to the Yuzhmash, a major space and ballistic missile design bureau and manufacturer. Because of its military industry, Dnipropetrovsk was a closed city until the 1990s.

Dnipropetrovsk is a powerhouse of Ukraine's business and politics as the native city for many country's top-importance figures. 

Citadel Alba Julia

Postcard ID: RO-78957
Country: Romania

Great news! I received my first card from Romania! I have never visited this country yet, just pass through it in our way to Bulgaria from Moldova. 

The Alba Iulia citadel, designed by Italian architect Giovanni Morando Visconti, was built between 1716 and 1735, using the Vauban military architectural system—the largest of this kind in Southeastern Europe. The fortress is outstanding both for its architectural elements and for the beauty of its six gates, unique in European military structures. Doubtless the artists, sculptors Johann Koning, Johan Vischer and Giuseppe Tencalla, had been inspired by ancient mythology.

About 7.2 miles of ramparts made of brick and quarry stones form a seven-point star shape with seven bastions (Eugene of Savoia, St. Stefan, The Trinity, St. Michael, St. Carol, St. Capistrano and St. Elisabeth) guarded by six monumental gates.

The gates, valuable samples of early baroque style, have served as a model for 18th century Transylvanian architecture.

A stamp from the card is:

The Waidaibu Bridge

Postcard ID: KR-76584
Country: Korea (South)

Hurray! This is the first card from Korea coming to me :)
It shows the Waidubudu bridge in China. As sender wrote, the bridge is the first true steel truss bridge in China. I'm not a fan of postcards with bridges, but think that this one is wonderful! Hmm.. I think I should pay more attention to bridges :)

Also here is a stamp from postcard: