This is a photo of Monterey Bay , located on the California coast about 120 kilometres south of San Francisco . Along the bay are communities such as Santa Cruz , where the sender of the card is from, and Monterey . Santa Cruz is a city of about 63,000 people located at the northern end of Monterey Bay. It is a popular tourist destination due to its beaches, surf culture, and historic landmarks. Santa Cruz was established as a Spanish mission in 1791. Fermín de Lasuén founded Mission Santa Cruz , and a settlement grew nearby. Santa Cruz later became an incorporated city in 1866, after California became a U.S. state in 1850.

Schalkhaar is a suburb of Deventer . Deventer is home to Go Ahead Eagles , which were founded in 1902. Their crest is found on the front of this card. The club plays at De Adelaarshorst , a stadium with a capacity of about 10,400. Today, they compete in the Eredivisie , the highest level of football in the Netherlands. Go Ahead Eagles have won the national championship four times: 1917, 1922, 1930, and 1933. They also won the KNVB Cup in 2025. The KNVB Cup is similar to England’s FA Cup, with clubs from multiple tiers of Dutch football competing. Approximately 100+ teams take part in the tournament, which has been held since 1898.

A Postcrossing meetup card with about 8-9 people in attendance. It took place at Hofheim in Unterfranken, a town of 5125 people located in central Gemany. 

I want to share what the sender wrote on her card: Greetings from Philadelphia, USA. Travelled to Barbados for tasing the best rum in the world. Barbados is the only Caribbean country to produce rum with the real cane. And I was so surprised that the ocean view is so much more beautiful that I imagined. 

Football (soccer) is a popular sport in Chengdu . Chengdu Tiancheng F.C. played in the second tier of Chinese professional football, commonly known as China League One , and hosted matches at the Chengdu Sports Center Stadium . The club was founded in 1996 and was originally known as Chengdu Wuniu (Five Bulls), named after its first sponsor, the Five Bulls Cigarette Company. The team was involved in a match-fixing scandal in 2009 while competing in the Chinese Super League . As punishment, the club was relegated to the second tier, and ownership changes followed. The club later struggled financially and was dissolved in 2015.

Happy Hallowe'en from Southbridge! Southbridge, Massachusetts has a long history of manufacturing optical products, earning it the unofficial title “Eye of the Commonwealth,” in reference to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Under the Wells family, the American Optical Company (AO) became the world’s largest manufacturer of ophthalmic products. At its height, the company employed more than 6,000 people worldwide. During World War II , many of its workers were exempted from the draft because they were engaged in vital defense work. This included manufacturing Norden bombsight s, as well as contributing to projects related to the atom ic bomb.