2359 - Pflugerville, Texas, USA

Normally I would have written about the rattlesnake found on the card. However, in Heather's bio on her postcrossing page, she writes about Pflugerville and I think what she writes is way more entertaining than anything I could have typed here:

I live in Pflugerville, TX. It's...not very exciting. It's so boring that the city leaders try to liven up stuff by sticking "pf" in front of EVERY word that starts with f. It stopped being pfunny somewhere around 1995. Pflugerville is pfabulously pfun (it's not). It's a bedroom community just north of Austin. Austin is the state capital of Texas. We live in Pflugerville because we can't afford to actually live in Austin. If you get postcards from me, they might be from Austin because Pflugerville is famous for nothing except that the exterior shots of the Chicken Ranch from "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" were shot here. I told you this town is pfreaking boring.

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3227 - Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Mölln is a small city of about 20 000 located in northern Germany. The Elbe-Lübeck Canal flows through the town, and there are eight small lakes that surround the city. It was founded in the 12th century and was a part of the Old Salt Route. Salt that was produced in the salt mines of Lower-Saxony was shipped to the Baltic Sea. Till Eulenspiegel, a legendary trickster known for exposing vices and provoking thought, is said to have lived in Mölln the last year of his life. He apparently died of the plague in 1350, but his existence has never been proven. Mölln has several monuments dedicated to him.

3322 - Hamburg, Germany

Happy birthday to me! What a lovely handmade card from the sender. Beautiful penmanship. Am Rothenbaum is the site of the main court of the German Open Tennis Championships. The International German Open has been played at the Rothernbaum since 1892, making it Germany's longest running tennis tournament. The current stadium was built in 1999 and can hold 13 200 people.

3232 - Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States of America

The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal North Pierhead Light was built in 1882. There were nine keepers of the light until 1897. It was redesigned in 1903 and is 12 meters high. The Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal was started in 1872 and wasn't opened for large-scale watercraft until 1890. The canal is 2.1 kilometers long that goes from Sturgeon Bay in Lake Michigan to Green Bay. There are no locks on this canal. The canal was sold to the United States government in 1893 and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains the canal.

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