53rd Received, Budapest, Hungary

52nd Received, Tallinn, Estonia

This is our second card to receive from Estonia.  Estonia is south of Finland and west of Russia. 

51st Received, Minsk, Belarus

We have received a lot of postcards from Minsk, Belarus! 

50th Received, Maastricht, Netherlands

49th Received, Holland, The Netherlands

This card we received from Holland shows one of the beautiful windmills.  This specific windmill is a wheat windmill used to make flour for the bakery.

48th Received, Montpellier, France

We received a postcard from Montpellier, France which is in southern France.  The postcard shows the different foods of southern France, including olives.  Yum!

47th Received, Utrecht, Netherlands

Thank you Marlien!  You wrote such interesting things on this postcard to us, we learned a lot!

I scanned in the back of this card to show how much was written!  We learned that the salt marshes (or kwelders) of the Wadden Sea are a very important habitat for special plants and animals.  The stamp depicts some of the birds found here.
We looked up the Wadden Sea on Wikipedia, and this is the additional information we found;
The Wadden Sea is an intertidal zone in the North Sea.  The coastline has had a lot of human influence on it, with the placement of dikes and causeways.  The sea borders three countries, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany.
The name Wadden comes from the Dutch word wad meaning mud flat.
There is a national park that  encompasses the sea within the German borders. 
The sea was place on the World Heritage list in 2009.

45th Received, Tianjin, China

Zhenya is from China.  Tianjin is in northern China, it became a port city in 1404. 

44th Received, Novosibirsk, Russia

We received this card from Xenia in Russia.  The picture is of The Palace Bridge with the Peter and Paul Fortress in the background. 
Norosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg.  It is in Siberia.

25th Received, Turnov, Czech Republic

Today we got a card from the Czech Repbulic, a region named "Bohemian Paradise," with many rocks, hills and castles.  According to Pavel, there is a tradition of cutting gemstones, and they work for one of these companies.

24th Received, Kemerovo, Russia

We received a postcard from Stepan from Kemerovo, Russia.  She is 10 years old.

23 Recieved, Brazil

This card came to us from Leonardo, who is 17 years old.  He forgot to put the ID on the card, so we can't register it.

22nd Received, Ukraine

Ira,  After registering the postcard from you, I looked to see where in Ukraine you are from.  My husband spent time in Lviv when he was in school.  They took a trip visiting Germany, Poland, Ukraine (which was then still USSR) and Hungary.  His trip was in 1989.  When they were in Lviv (which they called Lvov) they attended some type of folk dancing and cultural event. 
Have a great day!
Christina and Family

21st Received, Helsinki, Finland

This card shows many views of Helsinki.  When I think of Helsinki, I can't help but think of the TV show Alias, and Sidney rushing off to Helsinki for some mission.  (It's sad to think that I know most of my foreign capitals and main cities for this same reason)
Heta tells us in her card, that Finland has thousands of lakes and islands (about 188,000 lakes and 179,500 islands).  The largest lake is Saimaa, near the town of Mikkeli.

20th Received, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

We received our 20th card from Mei-Ling in southern Taiwan.  She sent us a beautiful card of Alishan, with it's "sea of clouds."  This is common in the autumn time.  The Alishan National Scenic Area looks beautiful.  Alishan is said to be one of the two most well-known scenic spots in Asia, and I can see why!  We would love to visit here someday.

19th Received, Poland

This card came to us from Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland.  The picture on the card is from Bielasko-Biala.  Dabrowa Gornicza is part of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union a large city of over 2 million people. 

18th Received, Vilnius, Lithuania

Vilnius is the capital city of Lithuania and looks like a beautiful city.  I like the look of the older buildings.  The old town has about 40 museums, lots of churches, and many monuments. 

17th Received, St. Petersburg, Russia

We've received our second postcard from St. Petersburg, Russia.  There must be a lot of postcrossers in St. Petersburg, because we've also sent a card there!
This card shows the Russian Museum.

16th Received, Finland

This card came to us from Oulu, Finland.  Oulu is in north Finland wiht a population of about 130,000.

This is the second card we have gotten from Suomi, Finland.

15th Received, Minsk, Belarus

Today we got FIVE postcards in the mail, the first one was from Minsk, Belarus.  We have sent a postcard to Minsk.
This postcard is of the National Library of Belarus in the evening.  The building was opened June 16, 2006.