The card is entitled Portugal de Azul/Portugal in Blue , with photos taken by David de Abreu, Manuel M. Pinturache, and Nuno Perestrelo. Braga is a city of about 200 000 people. it has ancient roots dating back to the Roman Empire, when it was known as Bracara Augusta . It is also home to the oldest Portuguese archdiocese, the Archdiocese of Braga.  There is an organ festival held annually in Braga since 2014.  Festival de órgão de Braga (The Organ Festival of Braga) takes place in several churches in the city that feature pipe organs. The main purpose of the festival is the safeguarding, valourization, and dissemination of the bracarense organism heritage, whose value in incalculable, is currently in the national and international panoramas a recognized cultural event. 

Tampere is home to two professional men's hockey clubs that play in the Liiga, the top tier of professional hockey in Finland. There was a third professional team, Koovee, that played mostly in Mestis, the second tier of professional hockey.  Tappara was founded in 1932 as the Tammerfors Bollklubb, and in 1955 as Tappara. Tappara plays out of Nokia Arena, which has a capacity of 12 700. They are the most successful club in Finland having won 20 Finnish league championships - Kanada-malja (13 Liiga titles and 7 Sarja (predecessor to Liiga) titles) the last being in 2024. They were also the runners up 17 times - 13 Liiga and 4 Sarja.  Internationally they have won the Champions Hockey League in 2023 and the Nordic Trophy in 2009.  Tampereen Ilves, or Ilves, was founded in 1931. They are the second most successful team in Liiga, with 16 Kanada-malja, and runners up nine times.  Koovee ry was founded in 1929, but dissolved in 2024. They mostly played in Mestis, the secon...

A beautiful card from Taroko National Park    太魯閣國家公園. It is located in east central Taiwan. It is one of nine national parks in Taiwan. It covers 92 000 square hectares. There are unique geological and natural resources, including 27 peaks over 3000 metres located in and around the Qilai and Nanhu Mountain Ranges. There is the marble gorge of Taroko, the Qingshui Cliff, the trail along the Shakadang River, and the waterfalls of the Baiyang trail.  In 2024, a magnitude 7 earthquake struck Taiwan's eastern coast and caused widespread devastation and significant loss of life. Landslides obstructed the provincial highway at Taroko Gorge, trapping hundreds of people. Taroko Gorge's landscape was scarred by the aftermath of the earthquake mainly due to landslides that occurred. Because of the earthquake, and floods later in 2024, much of the park remains closed. 

This card made me laugh and made my day. The sender writes: Just wanna say that I love Canada and fuck Donald Trump. I work in a cannabis dispensary and Canada is so far ahead of the US in  cannabis it's  not even funny. Canada is exporting to Germany and Australia. Be well, happy postcrossing.

When I first received this card in the post I became very excited because it is a photo from Antarctica. There are seven Postcrossers in Antarctica and I thought I received a card from one of them! Alas it was from just outside of London. The photo is of Damoy Hut on Dorian Bay in Antarctica. The card reads: Damoy Hut in Dorian Bay, along with the glacial 'skyway' on Damoy Point, together made up the "Damoy Point Transit Facility,' which operated between 19756 and 1993. The facility served as a staging post between the sea and station for BAS employees making their way south. It is designated Historic Site and Monument No. 84 under the Antarctic Treaty. The sender writes about something unrelated to Damoy Hut on the back of the card. He says, Something about Greenford. In 1856, William Perkin made the first synthetic purple dye, mauveine, and in was in Greenford that he set up a factory to produce the dye. The factory was about 2 km from out house. There is now a schoo...