The sender is quite the athlete, playing volleyball, soccer, basketball, badminton, tennis, frisbee, archery, and was once a track and field athlete.  Ningbo is the home of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) East Sea Fleet. Stationed at the base are: 3rd Destroyer Zhidui 6th Destroyer Zhidui 8th Frigate Dadul 21st Fastboat Zhidul 22nd Submarine Zhidui 42nd Submarine Zhidui 2nd Combat Support Zhidui 4th Air Division 6th Air Division 1st Flying Panther Regiment Radar Brigade. 

This card comes from Sherwood Park, just outside of Edmonton, but it is from Japan. I love this type of Japanese art. 

 

This card focuses on a word indigenous to the American Midwest. In this case it is the word Ope!  It means - kind of an 'oh' plus 'oops'; used only with another word or phrase.  Eau Claire is a city of 70 000 people located at the confluence of the Eau Claire and Chippewa Rivers. Early growth was in the number and timber industries. 

The sender was traveling by train to see UNESCO sites in Slovakia and Czech Republic. On this card is Spišský Hrad (Spiš Castle). This castle is found above the town of Spišské Podhradie and the village of Žehra. It was included on the UNESCO World Heritage Site list in 1993. The area of the castle is 3.9 hectares.  Construction of Spiš Castle began in the 12th century. The oldest mention of the castle in documents dates back to 1120. It was a boundary fort placed at the northern front of the Kingdom of Hungary. After it's time as a boundary fort, it became the seat of the head of Szepes County in the Kingdom of Hungary along with the political, administrative, economic, and culture centre, too. It was owned by many kings of Hungary ending with Matthias Corvinus.  The Csáky family, who owned the castle from 1628-1945, abandoned the castle in the early 18th century. In 1780 the castle was destroyed by fire. It was partially reconstructed in the second half of the 20th century, ...

For much of Herne's existence, it was a small village. In the 19th century, villages in the Ruhr starting mining coal and producing coke and making steel, there was an influx of eastern Germans to the area.  Today Herne is a city of 160 000 people.