A Postcard A Day -Tuesday 21 December 2021- T for

 Hello lovely ladies,

I bet you are all ridiculously busy as Christmas is a big thing in the Anglo-Saxon world. Not so here.(a village in rural southern Spain) Here it is still a religious festival, no presents are exchanged, people don't decorate the house, nobody I know has a Christmas tree and people don't send Christmas cards. On Christmas eve they get together with the family and have a large fish based meal. That is it. We have been invited by our Mexican friends for the Christmas Eve meal. Their three sons and (nearly) daughters in law will be there too, one of which is Dutch, so the language spoken at the meal will be English. Great.

Let me show you my postcard for today:

It comes from Poland, and the castle in the photo is the famous Neuschwanstein castle in Germany. Isn't it beautiful?

The castle was built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria, also known as the “Fairytale King”. This fairytale look of the Neuschwanstein castle inspired Walt Disney to create the Magic Kingdom. 

Neuschwanstein’s positioning is also a fairytale one. It is located in the Alps in Bavaria, Germany, in a magnificent landscape, on the top of a hill. Neuschwanstein overlooks the Hohenschwangau valley.

 Neuschwanstein is a castle of the paradox, it was built in the 19th century in Bavaria, in a time when castles no longer had strategical and defensive purposes. While Neuschwanstein’s look is that of a medieval castle, it was equipped inside with state of the art technology at that time. For example on every floor of the castle there were toilets with automatic flushing system, as well as an air heating system for the whole castle. Water was supplied by a nearby spring situated at only 200 meters above the castle. 

Truly stunning or what!

The stamps are interesting. 

The one on the left commemorates the killing of 9 miners. 

Wikipedia writes:

The Pacification of Wujek was a strike-breaking action by the Polish police and army at the Wujek Coal Mine in Katowice, Poland, culminating in the massacre of nine striking miners on December 16, 1981.

It was part of a large-scale action aimed to break the Solidarity free trade union after the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981. Although the strike was suppressed, in a longer term, it turned out to be a milestone towards the collapse of the authoritarian system in Poland and, ultimately, to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. 

36 years have passed since the bloody pacification. On the occasion of the anniversary, Poczta Polska issued this stamp.

The blue stamp on the right is one of four common postage stamps showing images of insects against the background of stylized letters E and P. (I assume Europe and Poland). They were put into circulation on August 16, 2013.

This week has been a quiet week for us. All clubs and activities have stopped until after the 6th of January (Three Kings). 

Our chickens are laying more and more eggs. We now get at least three a day. 

Some are small and some are very large (these have double yolks). 

Today we join all the lovely ladies of the T-gang at Elizabeth and Bleubeard's Altered Book Lover. But I need a drink to participate.

Here are the scrambled eggs we made on Sunday morning, and there behind the plate is a cup of tea!

Lets have one more photo:

Here I am with my hubby at a friend's birthday party on Saturday (more drinks in view).

That is it from me today.

 Graham (most of you know his name by now) and I like to wish everyone who celebrates Christmas a very happy one.

Please stay safe,

Big hug,

Lisca