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4505 - Mariehamm, Åland

A great Postcrossing Meet-Up card from  Åland and Finnish postcards sailing between the two countries. Mariehamm is the capital of  Åland and  Åland is an autonomous region of Finland. There are about 12 000 people that called Mariehamm home.  Åland is a popular summer destination and receives about 1.5 million visitors each year. 

4504 - Gwangju, South Korea

A beautiful postcard from a new Postcrosser (2025) that depicts the first snowfall in Seoul. The sender is from Gwangju, a city of almost 1.5 million people. It has ancient roots dating back to 57 BCE, when it was one of the administrative centres of the Baekje Kingdom during Korea's Three Kingdoms period. The sender noticed that I enjoy soccer (football) and wrote about his favourite Korean player, Lee Kang-in (이강인), who has played for Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) since 2023. As of 2026, he has made 79 league appearances for PSG, scoring 12 goals. Across all competitions, he has made more than 120 appearances and scored 16 goals. Before moving to France, Lee played in Spain's La Liga. He first appeared in 26 matches for Valencia B before earning promotion to Valencia's first team, where he made 44 league appearances and scored two goals. In 2021, he transferred to Mallorca, making 66 league appearances and scoring seven goals. In 2023, PSG, who play in Ligue 1, signed Lee to ...

4503 - Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

I was so excited to receive this postcard. It comes from Portugal, where the sender used to live, and it is made of cork instead of paper. The image on the front is the Galo de Barcelos , or the Rooster of Barcelos. The Rooster of Barcelos is a Portuguese folk tale that tells the story of a dead rooster's miraculous intervention in proving the innocence of a man who had been falsely convicted and sentenced to death. According to the legend, a landowner in Barcelos had silver stolen from his property, and the townspeople were searching for the thief. A man from Galicia became a suspect despite his pleas of innocence. The Galician insisted that he was merely passing through Barcelos on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela to fulfil a promise. Despite this, he was arrested and condemned to death. After being sentenced, the man asked to be taken before the judge who had condemned him. The judge was attending a banquet. The man pointed to a roasted rooster on the banquet table and dec...

4502 - Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland

This is a typical tourist-type card that shows various places in the canton of Ticino. Locarno is located on the northern shore of Lake Maggiore and is also the capital city of the canton. There are about 16 000 people that call Locarno home. Also featured on the card are Ascona, Valle Verzasca, Lugano, Ronco's/Ascona, Bellinzona, and Morcote. 

4501 - Assen, Drenthe, Netherlands

This is a card that shows an aaierbal, or egg ball. The sender says that they are "a typical snack from the north of the Netherlands. They're a hard boiled egg cooked in a thick spicy vagous(?), breaded, and then fried." She says her husband enjoys them at football games. 

4500 - Rheinberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

This is a tourist postcard from Norderney. Norderney is one of the seven inhabited East Frisian Islands in the North Sea, off the coast of northern Germany. The island is approximately 14 km long and 2.5 km wide, and about 5,900 people call it home. Much of Norderney is part of the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park. Access to some areas of the park is restricted and divided into zones to help protect wildlife and sensitive habitats. Car traffic on the island is also strictly regulated. Along the island's northern coast is a 14-kilometre-long sandy beach.

4499 - Ried, Bavaria, Germany

Ried is a small municipality located in southern Germany near the Austrian border. There are about 3234 people that call Ried home. 

4498 - Moscow, Russia

On the front of this card reads, When I wake up in the morning, you are all I see; When I think about you, and how happy you make me. You're everything I need. I look at you and know, that you are all to me. The card is an old map of Japan.