A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 27 December 2022 - T for Temari and temples

 Hello lovely ladies,

How are the holidays going? I'm in Holland at the moment, visiting my mother. We have had a lovely cozy Christmas, just the two of us. I cooked something nice and we ate and reminisced and watched some tv, etc.

I'm sorry I'm so late. I thought it was Monday today and instead I realized quite late in the day that it was Tuesday, so I am late at the party. 

Let me first show you my postcard for today:

It was sent by from a Dutchman living in Krete. The card shows the Parthenon temple in Athens. The Parthenon is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the godess Athena during the 5th century BC.

The stamp is beautiful. It features the Koules or Castello a Mare, which is a fortress located at the entrance of the old port of Heraclion, on Crete, Greece.

It was built by the Repubic of Venice in the early 16th century, and is still in good condition today.

Around the same time I received a postcard from my friend Maggie who is now retired and travels a lot. She was in Italy. In Sicily to be precise. 

She visited the  Tempio della Concordia (Temple of Concordia), which is an ancient Greek temple in the Valle dei Templi in Agrigento on the south coast of Sicely, Italy. It is the largest and best-preserved Doric temple in Sicely and one of the best-preserved Greek temples in eneral, especially of the Doric order.

The stamp is interesting. It is all about Ferrari Trento. No, nothing to do with the cars but the winery. Ferrari Trento celebrated the 120 years since the foundation of the winery.

 Certainly, a great deal has changed since that long-ago year of 1902, when Giulio Ferrari decided to create a small cellar a short distance away from Trento’s Cathedral and produce just a few highly select bottles. 

This bottle of bubble could be my ticket to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's T-Party.

Now let me show you one of my most beautiful Christmas presents:

It was my lovely friend Dian who gifted me these two stunningly beautiful 'baubles'. 

They are hand made by someone called Sarah Stubley.

And the artform is called Temari and it is Japanese.

What have I been up to? Well, I've had my hair cut:

I went together with my friend Kim (on the left).

Then I got on the bus to Malaga where my sister came to collect me and I stayed at her house for two nights. While I was there we walked along the boardwalk to Marbella:

It took us about an hour to walk. It's a really lovely walk.

And the weather was lovely (I'm almost feeling guilty when I think of my blog friends in the US where they are experiencing awful blizzards.)

I know that Elizabeth loves palm trees, so here there are a few.

My sister and I stopped somewhere for lunch. We ordered a Scandinavian platter:

And we drank some blush rosé. Very delicious. Another qualifier for the T-Party!

That is it from me. Sorry I'm late.

Keep smiling,

Hugs,

Lisca