Cruising along the Seine River

This panoramic postcard was sent by Thadee.  It showcases a bateaux-mouche (fly boat) cruising along the Seine River, the Notre Dame Cathedral, Pont de l' Archevêché (Archbishop's Bridge), and the buildings of Île de la Cité. 

This card reminded me of my sweet sojourn in Paris a few years ago. I remember biking with my friends along the port dela Tournelle, the wide space along the left side of the river, and stopping just about where the two people on the photo are sitting to marvel at the majestic Notre Dame Cathedral from a different perspective.


Because I miss Paris so much, I decided to rummage my treasure trove of my photos.  Look what I found!

A snapshot I took of the Île de la Cité!  Isn't it amazing?  This is why seeing the postcard felt like deja vu! Oh how I long to come back and explore every nook and cranny of the City of Lights! I could walk for hours and hours (or days)! I could just stare in awe at the marvelous architectural structures for hours. 

These stamps came with the postcard:

I sure am happy to get a stamp featuring the blessed Mother Teresa.

Wishing you happy journeys...

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Familie Hofmann

Tonie sent me this colorful Dutch postcard in exchange for a map card of one of the main islands of the Philippines. Too bad, she didn't tell me anything about the postcard. I wonder who the Hofmanns are. Are they a famous Dutch family?

I so love the interesting stamps that came along with it! The elephant with earphones is so cute!

Wishing you happy journeys...

An entry for Postcard Friendship Friday

Gone Fishing

Britta of Finland sent me this nice postcard of a little boy fishing.

It came with a flower stamp and a cute sticker.

Wishing you happy journeys...

Siem Reap's City Temple

I'm sharing two amazing postcards sent by Cheerful of Postcrossing Mom.  The postcards feature the most famous architectural Khmer wonder that is the Angkor Wat.

These amazing captures of Siem Reap's city temple made me reminisce my visit to the Kingdom of Wonder back in 2009.  A Cambodian odyssey, as I refer to it, my trip to the land of the Khmers proved to be truly unforgettable.  (See a few snapshots here.)


The Angkor Wat is truly awe-inspiring and I cannot even begin to tell you how magnificent it is.  You have to go and see it for yourself!  I long to come back and experience being transported back in time.


Thanks Mommy Cheerful for the postcards!  I also absolutely love the stamps that you used.

Wishing you happy journeys…

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The Best Hearts are Crunchy

The Stolen Kiss

Soon, yes, soon, we'll have our chance,

To embrace each other in love's dance.

A dance which I'll take her hand and show,

The love she's yet to know.

And yes, we'll know it with that kiss,

The look of tender bliss.

The hug and warm embrace will say it all,

Fall from the precipice into the abyss,

With that first sweet tender kiss.

~P. Bere

This postcard was sent from Russia.  It features an oil on canvass painting by French artist Jean Honoré Fragonard entitled "The Stolen Kiss".  The artwork, which is said to have been painted for the bailiff of Breteuil, French ambassador to the Order of Malta in Rome, is part of the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

"The Stolen Kiss explores the theme of secretive romance and passionate moments grabbed in a fleeting moment. The painting captures a perfectly frozen moment in time; two lovers caught by the spectator in the act of stealing a furtive kiss while no-one else is looking.

The young maiden is coquettish, leaning in for the kiss while at the same time looking away back towards the other members of the party in the next room over.

The action is stilted, the figures posed in what almost seems to be a caricature of a passionate embrace. In keeping with the frivolity of Rococo style, the young lady's dress is painted with extraordinary attention to detail. The decoration and fashion becomes almost a third character in the scene.

This type of semi-erotic theme was quite popular in the heady days before the French Revolution, particularly with the French aristocracy who slouched fashionably around the halls of Versailles digging up romantic follies and gossip fodder of their own. Fragonard was the favored genius of this genre.

One can almost see in the sly look of the maiden's eyes the knowledge of the coming storm, knowing that the decadence couldn't last; and in this way The Stolen Kiss stands as a historical artifact, transcending the bounds of mere genre eroticism." (Source: artble.com. Read the entire article here.)

Many thanks to Maria for this postcard and the wonderful stamps that came along with it.

Wishing you happy journeys...

This is my share for the Wednesday postcard meme 
hosted by Willa Stock.