A Postcard A Day - Friday 13 June 2025 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely peeps,

I have a postcard from Lithuania for you today which made me smile, so I hope you will like it too.

Lithuania is one of the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) 

It borders Latvia in the north and Russia, Poland and Belarus on the south and east.

I can never tell the three Baltic states apart. (Sorry). The card is from a place called Kaunas. It is about 60m miles from Vilnius (about 100 km).

What you see on the postcard is the old town. Wikipedia writes:

Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life.

It had about 400,000 permanent inhabitants and thousands of students.

The stamp is beautiful. It has a crayfish on it.

Astacus astacus, the European crayfish, noble crayfish, or broad-fingered crayfish, is the most common species of crayfish in Europe, and a traditional food source. Like other true crayfish, A. astacus is restricted to fresh water, living only in unpolluted streams, rivers, and lakes.

The postcard was sent to me by a guy called Mante, who tells me he is a man of 3 kids and 2 dogs.

He has also added a fun sticker of a parrot:

OK, what has been happening here? Again, not much. On Sunday I went to the huge weekly rastro in Baza (car boot sale in UK) I needed a small white handbag and I found one I liked. Then I went to the Moroccan stand to have some mint tea and a snack:

My sister had told me she bought a new skirt. I had a similar one in a different colour, so I photographed myself to show her:

To finish I will add a few Ronnie photos, however he was not in the mood to be photographed:

That's it from me today. I will join Annie at A Stitch In Time. See you there!

Have a lovely weekend,

Lisca