Tourist card from Litoměřice, located in northern Czech Republic. There are about 23 000 people who call Litoměřice home. Geographically it is located at the confluence of the Elbe and Ohře rivers. It was a royal town of great political, cultural, and economic importance during the European Middle Ages. The historic town centre has been well preserved and is protected as an urban monument reservation -  protected properties designated by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.  

A great card commemorating Chinese athletes at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The sender says that Xie Siyi comes from his hometown of Shantou. Xie Siyi  谢思埸  has won four gold medals at the World Aquatic Championships and three Olympic gold medals. He first started as a 10 metre synchro diver but suffered a serious injuring in 2012. After that he focused on the springboard. He competes in the 1 metre, 3 metre, and 3 metre synchro events.  His four gold medals at the World Aquatic Championships are for the 1 metre springboard (2015), 3 metre springboard (2017, 2019), and 3 metre synchro (2019) He won his two gold medals at the Olympics at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, winning the 3 metre springboard event and the 3 metre synchro events. At the 2024 Paris Olympics he defended his Olympic gold medal in the 3 metre springboard event. A teammate took the silver. 

Nouzenville is a commune in north east France near the Belgian border.  This card is a  Commemorative card for the collectors' and unusual items fair at the Lac des Vieilles Forges complex. ,

This tile panel is found on one of the walls of the Aveiro Train Station, in Costa de Prata.  The sender is from Murtosa, a town of about 10 500 people. Most people are employed in agriculture, fishing, and fish processing. 

A great history card from Shelton, Washington. It is a drawing of Fort Vancouver, a Hudson Bay Company trading fort and the mouth of the Columbia River and controlled the Oregon Territory. At the time, Oregon Territory stretched to Alaska to California.  Fort Vancouver was built in the winter of 1824-25 and named for Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy. Captain Vancouver led the Vancouver Expedition through this part of the Pacific Coast in the late 1700s.  Trade goods from London would arrive at Fort Vancouver and the Indigenous people would trade furs pelts for them. Some of the furs collected at Fort Vancouver were shipped to the Qing dynasty through Guangzhou where they were traded for Chinese manufactured goods for sale in Britain. At its peak, Fort Vancouver controlled 34 outposts, 24 ports, six ships, and employed 600 men.  In 1946 Great Britain and the United States signed a treaty ceding the land around Fort Vancouver to the United States. Although the Hud...

Hemer and the neighbouring towns of Deilinghofen and Iserlohn were home to Canadian military bases. Deilinghofen was home to the barracks of Fort Macleod and Fort Prince of Wales, while Iserlohn has Fort  QuèAppelle and Beausejour. Hemer was home to Canadian soldiers and their families. In 1970 the Canadians were transferred to based in the Black Forest region. and Canadian holdings were transferred to British.