A Postcard a Day - Friday 15 Jan 2016 Friday Smiles

  Hello friends,

We're back in Spain! What a fantastic  time we have had in Denmark! Our week has been great.
Saturday (still in Denmark) our friends took us to see the white cliffs of Denmark (Yes, they have them too). It was a lovely sunny frosty day.

There were steps down to the beach but there were so many and there was much snow, so we chickened out!

The nearby town is Stege and we had lunch in a restaurant of a well known Danish chef called David.

I had to pose with the wooden soldier in the restaurant. (The Danish royal family has guards with bearskin hats just like the British).
On Sunday we went to Copenhagen and saw the guards for real:

We also saw the statue of Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote the fairy tales.

We visited the part of Copenhagen which is an anarchistic city in a city: Christiania

We were not allowed to take pictures in the village

as they freely sell hashish, and that is still illegal.

Our last day in Denmark our friends had planned a drive along several castles and palaces in the area.  But a very thick fog descended on us and we couldn't see any of them from the road. Only this one.

This one is called Vallo castle and it used to house aristocratic virgins.

I'm sorry its so foggy and the photos have not  come out very well. There is no setting on the camera to compensate for fog, lol!
On the way back we stopped at the bakery:

We bought some bread and some of the famous Danish pastries!

It's a little out of focus...(I was so excited!)
As you can see I have had the most fantastic week! I'm linking up with Virginia at Rocking your World Friday.

That is all from me this morning. I'm trying to link up with Annie at A Stitch In Time for Friday Smiles so here is my smiley photo:

Happy Friday,

Blessings,

Lisca

A Postcard a day 3 August 2015, beautiful Ukrainian stamps

Good morning folks, Thanks for stopping by. 

It's Monday today. The beginning of a new exciting week, where anything can happen!

I have another card for you. I received quite a lot (12) last week. One of them from the Ukraine from Tatiana.

It is an image of Medzhybizh Castle. Tatiana writes on the back that she is an artist and has a website: www.tatianapetenko.kiev.ua 
I had a look and she is a gifted artist in my opinion.

She sent this card in an envelope, with two more cards of the same series of castles. On the back of these cards was a map of the Ukraine. I always find that helpful as my Eastern European geography is 'pants'.

I never knew/realised that the Crimea is in the Ukraine...

This is the envelope all this came in:

Beautiful isn't it! The large stamp set is about Odessa and its region. I've not been able to find out what the individual stamps represent, only the light house. It is the Illichyovsk Lighthouse on the Black Sea.

The small stamp is interesting. It commemorates 'The heavenly Hundred'.I had to look this up. Wikipedia says this:

 This is the list of people killed during Euromaidan events taking place in the fall and winter of 2013–2014. The list contains only confirmed deaths of Euromaidan participants, Ukrainian policemen and other killed by Euromaidan participants. There are currently near 130 identified deaths; most of them were civilian protesters. 18 police officers were also killed during the clashes.^[1]

Ukrainian sources often refer to the deaths protesters as the "Heavenly Hundred". On 21 February 2014, Verkhovna Rada recognized the perished protesters of Euromaidan as victims.^[2] On 21 November 2014 by Petro Poroshenko's decree the perished Ukrainian protesters of Euromaidan were posthumously awarded the Order of the Heavenly Hundred Heroestitle.^[3] Three non-Ukrainian citizens killed in the Euromaidan events were each posthumously awarded the title Knight of the Order of the Heaven's Hundred Heroes.^[4] 2015 "the Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes" was celebrated on 20 February to commemorate the deaths.

This is the whole sheet of stamps. I assume the list in the middle are the hundred names of the victims. 

Again, I've learnt something. Postcrossing is very educational, no wonder homeschooling families often do it.

Have a good Monday,

See you tomorrow,

Lisca