2335 - Veldhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

Marjan from Veldhoven sent me a card of Pipo de Clown, a character who was on a popular Dutch television show, and Marjan loved watching his adventures.

Pipo was the lead character in the television show, along with his wife, Mamaloe, and their daughter, Petra. For most of the show they lived in a gypsy trailer in which they travelled around the Netherlands as a circus act and happened to run into adventures. The gypsy trailer was given to him by a gypsy named Felicio in the second series (season).

Pipo ran from 1959 to 1980. He could also be found on records, in movies, and in comics.

For some reason, Pipo reminds me of a Canadian television series that ran in the lates 70s and early 80s called The Littlest Hobo. It was about a German shepherd dog that would travel around Canada and help people in need. At the end of each episode, the people he helped wanted Hobo to stay but Hobo always moved on to the next adventure.

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2346 - Iwate, Iwate, Japan

Keita is a junior high science teacher in Iwate 岩手町. He sent me a photo of the Tokyo Sky Tower during a fireworks display. The Tokyo Sky Tower is a broadcasting and observation tower in Simide, a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010. In 2011, when it was completed at a height of 634 meters, it became the tallest tower in the world, and the second tallest structure in the world, after Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE.

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