3023 - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Yanzhi sent me a first day cover from 2000 of a boy named Miguel Alzona of New South Wales. The title of the series is the Face of Australia. I think it must be a series of first day covers to honour the many cultures found in Australia.

Melbourne has two semi-pro hockey teams - the Melbourne Ice and the Melbourne Mustangs. Both teams play in the Australian Ice Hockey League, established in 2000 and supports eight teams (wth two more coming in 2023). The AIHL champion is awarded the Goodall Cup, the world's third oldest ice hockey trophy, first played for in 1909. The current champion are the CBR Brave (Canberra). The Newcastle Northstars have the most AIHL championships with six.

The Melbourne Ice have been in the AIHL since 2002 and have won four Goodall Cups and H. Newman Reid Trophies (awarded to the top team in the regular season). Their current roster includes one Canadian, Mac Caruana.

The Melbourn
e Mustangs play in the same arena as the Ice. They were founded in 2010 and have won the Goodall Cup and H. Newman Reid Trophy once. Their current roster includes four Canadians - Brendan Connors, Ty Wishart, Scott Timmins, and Jordan Warren - and their head coach, Chris Lawrence is also from Canada.

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3566 - Bakhmach, Chernihiv, Ukraine

Bakhmach is locarted in northern Ukraine. I'm taking this next paragraph straight out of Wikipedia: During the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 26, 2022, at least 65 units of Russian military equipment moved through Bakhmach, with about a hundred more on the outskirts. Local residents tried to stop the convoy on their own by blocking tank tracks with makeshift objects and convincing Russian soldiers not to move towards Kyiv . One man attempted to climb onto a tank and block the road with his body (he was not hurt). However, the military equipment continued to move, and Russian forces fired several shots into the air. Слава Україні!

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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

2352 - Cologne (Köln), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne is home to the twelve Romanesque churches. All are Catholic churches and all are found in Altstadt (old town). All were severely damaged during the 262 Allied air raids on Cologne. All twelves have been restored. St. Andreas was consecrated in 974. The crypt of the church as a sarcophagus that dates back to the third century and it holds the remains of St. Albertus Magnus, who died in 1280. St. Apostein was consecrated in the 800s. St. Cecilia was built in the 800s and it the current home of the Schnutgen Museum for Medieval Art. It still holds Catholic Mass on rare occasions. St. Georg's was built near the end of 1000s. It was extensively restored after the Second World War. St. Gerion's was established in 612. St. Kunibert was consecrated in 1247. Cunibert, the 9th Bishop of Cologne, is buried here. St. Maria im Kapital was built between 1040-1065. It was also heavily damaged during the war and restoration was finally completed in 1984. St. Maria Lyskirchem is the ...

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