Germany and Spain checklist

Germany and Spain are my favourite countries to get cards from! I aspire to get cards from alllll German states and Spanish autonomous communities. So here's the checklist:

Germany

Baden-Württemberg X
Bavaria (Bayern) X
Berlin X
Brandenburg
Bremen
Hamburg X
Hesse (Hessen) X
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern X
Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) X
North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen) X
Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) X
Saarland
Saxony (Sachsen)
Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt) X
Schleswig-Holstein X
Thuringia (Thüringen)

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Spain

Andalusia (Sp. Andalucía) X
Aragon (Sp. Aragón)
Principality of Asturias (Sp. Principado de Asturias)
Balearic Islands (Sp. Islas Baleares)
Basque Country (Sp. Euskadi, País Vasco) X
Canary Islands (Sp. Islas Canarias) X
Cantabria
Castile-La Mancha (Sp. Castilla-La Mancha) X
Castile and León (Sp. Castilla y León)
Catalonia (Sp. Cataluña) X
Extremadura
Galicia X
La Rioja
Madrid X
Region of Murcia (Sp. Región de Murcia)
Foral Community of Navarre (Sp. Comunidad Foral de Navarra) X
Valencian Community (Sp. Comunidad Valenciana)

Barcelona - Catalonia, Spain

Spanish card sent from Russia:

Cordoba - Andalusia, Spain

View of the Roman bridge and the city of Córdoba, Spain. Also, the sender says it must be an older photograph as you can't swim in the Guadalquivir river and there re no cows:) But the picture is indeed very interesting.

Free card from the Canarian Islands

This card says: "Unelco [the power company] doesn't beautify the islands".

San Fermín - Navarre, Spain

Sanfermines is a festival in Pamplona, Spain. It involves many folklore celebrations (like Pamplona's Giants and Big-heads parade), but thanks to Ernest Hemingway, the running of the bulls is the most famous event during Sanfermines. The running of the bulls, called encierro in Spanish, is what's shown on this card.

By the way, this card was designed by KUKUXUMUSU The Drawing Factory, Pamplona based clothing and product design company. It was founded at Pamplona's San Fermín festival of 1989 and still produces many San Fermín themed products, such as postcards, T-shirts etc.

Toledo, autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain

The city of Toledo is a World Heritage Site.

...the Galician word for witch is "Meiga"...

Of course I like this card! It's one of my favourite!

Madrid

Another card from Galicia

Chove en Santiago / meu doce amor.

A postcard from Santiago de Compostela, the capital of Galicia, Spain:

The city's Cathedral used to be the destination of medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James (Satiago).

Andalucia&Gibraltar

My German friends visited Spain and sent me some cards:) Some of them are written, some of them not. There used to be some photographs too, but I must've put them into an album. And then lost the album. Yeah, I'm smart like that:))

Barcelona, Barcelona, Barceloooooona!

Caballito

This card marks the beginning of my seahorse mania:) My bff bought it in L'Aquàrium de Barcelona.

Sent from Lloret de Mar (where we used to spend more time at the post office than in our hotel:)

Spanish Torero

Cards in the first box are mostly disorganized. They are cards from different years, mostly two-fold cards (which I decided not to post here).



This one was bought in 2007 in Spain. I actually intended to send it to a friend of mine, wrote some message but messed up the address. Decided to keep it.