Recently I started paying closer attention to postcards depicting UNESCO World Heritage Sites, in fact, moving further, I hope to extend my UNESCO collection. I will also try to sort out my existing collection to understand what I already have but my estimation is that I have around 150 sites (out of 1248), so there is still a lot to collect. Here are the most recent additions to my UNESCO collection. Czechia Krupka Mining Landscape - Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region Sent

In 2025 I started to document all my outgoing mail, mainly not to forget to send postcards and letters to my pen pals and users of the Postcrossing forum, which I am an active member of, but also to see how many cards and where I send. Since the year is over, it is time to evaluate my mail-sending activities in 2025. According to my records, I sent 1053  postcards (and letters) in 2025. The number does not include postcards that I sent to my friends though because I usually d

This year I visited a Christmas Market in Lana - a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy. Lana is located near Merano and is known for its agricultural surroundings and small-town character. The Christmas market offered decorated stalls, warm food, hot drinks, and a variety of sweets, which are typical features of Christmas markets in South Tyrol. What was special though, was a postcard stand, where everyone could send a custom-made Christmas postcard for free! I took the

Lavis is a small town in Trentino in the northern Italy, about 9 km north of Trento. It has the population of about 9,000 people and an area of 12.4 square kilometres. It has two train stations: one is on the main Trenitalia Verona-Bolzano/Bozen train line, the other is a local Trentino Trasporti Trento-Mal é line. Although the town has two train stations, it is anything but easy to reach. The Trenitalia station is located quite far from the town and seems to be not accessib

The book tells a story of how the author successfully read one book from each country in a year - 196 books in total. The first edition...

General info Hatton Cross is a London Underground station located in Travelcard zones 5 and 6. It is on the Heathrow branch of...

Veronafil is a biannual exhibition dedicated to philately, numismatics, postcards, phonecards, small antiques, prints, old books, and military collectibles. It is organized by the Associazione Filatelica Numismatica Scaligera and takes place every May and November at the Verona Exhibition Centre (Veronafiere). From May 22nd to 24th, the 140th edition of Veronafil took place, and on Saturday, May 24th, a Postcrossing Meetup was held as part of the event. I have been doing Pos

The Bolzano Film Festival, held annually in Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, is a prominent event that celebrates both Italian and international...

Naturns, Naturno in Italian, is a municipality in South Tyrol, located about 40 km northwest of its capital Bolzano. Its population is...

The station was opened as Heathrow Central on 16 December 1977. At the time, it served as a terminus station of what became known as the...

The Brenner Base Tunnel is a flat railway tunnel that streches between Fortezza in Italy and Innsbruck in Austria. It has been under...

Heathrow Terminal 4 is a London underground tube station on the Heathrow branch of the Piccadilly line, located in Travelcard zone 6. The...

Heathrow Terminal 5 is a London underground tube station located in Travelcard zone 6. It is a terminus station of the Piccadilly line...

Last Sunday was one of those days when I wanted to be around books. As libraries are usually closed on Sunday, I decided to visit the...

A short visit to Mezzocorona, a small town about 15 km north of Trento and about 5 km from the South Tyrol border

SPOILER ALERT: there are some spoilers in the review below. I bought the book at the Sabiha Gökçen airport in Istanbul to have something...

There has been a lot of hype around this book series, so when I saw the first book in one of Istanbul's bookshops, I bought it as I...

This post is more about pictures than words. So you will find a lot of photos but not so much description. I have been living in Tbilisi,...

I decided to tell about my visit to Istanbul in the form of a diary - it is a new format for me, but I will try my best. January 23, 2022...

Here are books I read in 2021 in no particular order with a small review. Books on the "World of Warcraft" universe In 2021 I read quite...