This card is coming from a high school teacher who teaches Spanish and English. In fact, she shared some exciting news that she gets to take a class to Spain for an exchange program, of which she has been preparing for a few years.  The card is from Bremen, but the teacher is from Stuhr. Stuhr is a municipality about 7 kilometres southwest of Bremen. There are about 35 000 people who live in the municipality. The municipality includes the following communities:  Brinkum, Fahrenhorst, Groß Mackenstedt, Heiligenrode (Neukrug), Moordeich, Seckenhausen, Stuhr and Varrel. The card shows the city centre of Bremen, or the Bremer Marktplatz. It is one of the oldest public squares in the city and covers an area of  3,484 m 2  . It isn't used as a market place exept for the Christmas market and the Freimarkt Fair at the end of October. Parts of the marketplace have been used since the age of Charlemagne (mid to late 700s). Bremen Town Hall was built here from 1405 to 1410...

A great card that shows the amount of snow Finland gets in the winter. In Espoo, they average about 6.5 metres of precipitation every year. Snow generally arrives after Christmas and can last to March or April. Espoo also has years where there is very little snow. 

St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom) is an almost 900 year old cathedral. It is the home of the Archdiocese of Vienna,    Christoph Schönborn . Groundbreaking took place in 1137 and the building was complete 1578 - 441 years later. It was dedicated to St. Stephen in 1147, in the presence of Conrad III of Germany, Bishop Otto of Freising, and other German nobles who were about to embark on the Second Crusade.  The first structure was completed in 1160, major reconstruction and expansion lasted until 1511, and repair and restoration projects continue to the present day.  The heighest part of the cathedral is 136.7 metres.

 

The sender took this photo himself on a camping trip to Kolukkumalai. All the green are tea plantations.  Thrissur is a city of 315 000 people, but a part of a metropolitan area with 3.7 million people. It is known as the Cultural Capital of Kerala. There are cultural traditions that date back centuries. The Thrissur Pooram is an annual Hindu temple festival. It attract upwards of a million people.  The Maharaja of Cochin (1790-1805), Sakthan Thampuran, came up with the idea of the Thrissur Pooram.