A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 9 July 2026 - T for church, air conditioning and Ronnie

 Hello lovely girls,

I have another postcard for you. It came from the bottom of the pile as I didn't find it very interesting. 

It is unusual in that it is a so-called Maxi-card. The stamp is on the front of the card and it is meant for collectors. 

The theme of this card is the Austrian Day of Catholicism which took place on the 9th of September 1983. 

The church in the picture is the St Stephen's church in Vienna.

I have recently been in Vienna and here is the photo I took of that church:

It has a beautiful coloured roof.

The stage was there because of the Eurovision Song Contest that was being held in Vienna. Two big occasions, but completely different in ethos.

The back of the postcard gives some information about the event in 1983:

Google translates this as:

The stamps are pretty:

The one on the right is a Christmas stamp featuring a detail from the Adoration of the Kings by Jan Breughel the older. Here is the entire painting:

The blue stamp shows a slipcase chain with pocket watch - 

It comes from a series of stamps about Traditional costumes 

Montafon is a valley in the western part of Austria. 

Some trivia about Montafon: (from Wikipedia):

Ernest Hemingway spent two winters in Montafon: 1924/25 and 1925/26.  The Snows of the Kilimanjaro (1936) and several other novels and short stories were written in, or they contain material about, the Montafon and the Silvretta glaciers.

The famous German novelist and poet Erich Kästner also repeatedly visited the valley, as did the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl. The noted opera singer Elisabeth Schwarzkopf spent her last years in Schruns, where she died on 2 August 2006.

What have I been doing here in Spain. Well I mentioned last time that I had installed airconditioning in the top flat for my visitors. I thought that I might get one for myself too, so the other day a guy came to install it:

The outdoor unit (seen in the above photo) is enormous. Two men worked for several hours to sort everything out.

The indoor unit is quite discreet above the door:

And this is what the outside looks like:

I am really thankful that I can have air conditioning. It is quite a luxury.

As today I will join Elizabeth and Bluebeard's T-Party, I need a drink. This is my dinner a few days ago:

It was a piece of salmon with lots of spices that I cooked in the air fryer together with some wild rice and peas. My drink is a nice rosé.

This evening I've been to the hairdresser and I had my hair cut.

I'll leave you with some photos of Ronnie:

And a close-up:

That is all from me today,

Happy T-Day all,

Lisca