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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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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