This beautiful card arrived today from Lotta in Finland. It was snowing when Lotta wrote our card and was very cold outside!

Lotta translated some words for us which tell us what the pictures on the front of the post card are of!

Loimijoki = A river

Huittisten kirkko – The Church of Huittinen

Kaupungintalo – Town Hall.

This card travelled 15,850 Kilometres over 14 days to land in our mailbox!

Kittos Lotta!

Terveiset Huittisista

This beautiful flower arrived today from Elke , who lives in Saarbrücken in Germany. That’s next to the frontier to France.

It travelled 16,884 kilometres over 16 days to get to us!

A flower from Elke in Germany

Just in time for Christmas we received this beautiful card from Candy in China.

The image was taken by Candy herself. It is of the Northwest of China. A very different view of rural life than most post cards would depict. It is definitely a beautiful card. Thanks Candy for sharing your life, photography and perspective with us!

This card travelled 8,069 kilometres over 15 days to get from Candy’s house to ours.

Northwest of China through Candy's Eyes!

This beautiful postcard came all the way from Katrin in Germany. Katrin took the photograph herself and says it is of the peacock Butterfly, which is very common in Germany.

Thanks Katrin for showing us the beautiful Butterfly and also for obviously having a keen photographic eye!

Our Butterfly flew 16,690 kilometres over 10 days to land in our garden!

Katrin's butterfly!

This postcard came with a chilly snow factor of 13 Degrees Fahrenheit from its sender Kristin in Chaska.

It travelled 15,232 Kilometres over 11 days to get to our sunnier side of the world!

It's Snowing!

Well it is a busy day for receiving Postcards today.

This card arrived all the way from Babeth in France. She told us that the foxes love to venture out of the nearby forest and find food in her garbage cans! Aren’t we glad we don’t have any foxes in Tasmania!

This card travelled 17,210 kilometres over 11 days to land on our door step!

Foxes in France

Well today we received our first Christmas postcard. It came all the way from Finland and was sent to us by Kaija.

Santa’s sack is still quite full, so it looks like he still has a long night ahead of him! Kiitos Kaija for the beautiful card!

This card travelled 15,800 kilometres over 15 days to get to us!

Merry Christmas!

This card was sent to us by Johanna who lives in Finland. She chose this card to send us as it shows Moomi Characters in an artistic way. Moomi Characters were created by a Finish author called Tove Jansson and have been made into a TV series.

Johanna also showed us how to write a few Finish words they are:

Kiitos – Thank you

Joulu – Christmas

Kortti – Card and

Hyvää huomenta – Good Morning!

We have also found some other words to write in Finish such as:

Talo – house

Koira – dog

Kirja – book

This card travelled 15,747 Kilometres over 14 days to get to us!

Moomi Characters

Today we received a postcard from Max who lives in China.

This card travelled 7,999 Kilometres over 14 days to get here!

Xiaoyaojin Park

This is the second Post card that we received today. It is from Makiko who lives in Tokyo. She send us this beautiful card of Kyoto her home town which used to also be the old capital of Japan.

This card took 6 days to get to us and travelled over 8,721 Kilometres along the way!

Kyoto Japan - the Old Capital