Saturday, January 21, 2023

Planes, Planes and More Planes --Maldives , Nancy and Bremen

BLOG # 1572 --- Day 333 of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

                                                              GLORY TO UKRAINE



Hi folks, thanks for coming by. Here's a few cards that arrived this past week.  First up is this beautiful card from Maldives. I wouldn't mind been there right now. Sun, Sea and Sand , and great temperatures. Sounds good to me. But all is not perfect. Located in the Indian Ocean, 750 km from the Asian mainland, The Maldives are the world's lowest lying country. It has an average ground-level elevation of 1.5 m above sea level and a highest point of only 2.4 m. That's kind of hard to imagine when I can look out my window and see the Rocky Mountains  with elevations of 2,998 m, 2,451 m, 2,948 m and 1,692 m knowing they are approximately 150 km to the west. 



 This card is from Nanni, an 8 year old Postcrosser who participates with the help of her Mamma Rizleen. She used 3 stamps from 2002 , all showing marine creatures, a Blue Shark, a Turtle and a Yellow Breasted Wrass.



My next card is the latest to join my Aircraft / Airlines Card Collection. Here we have F-WZHF, a Japan Air Lines Airbus 350 shown landing in Toulouse in May 2019. This aircraft saw service with Cathy Pacific  in 2018, Japan Air Lines in 2019, Qatar Airways in 2020 and is now with the German Air Force as of 2021. 


Jean Pierre used a 2020 stamp , 1 of 2 in a set , celebrating the 2020 Summer Olympics , held in Tokyo.




Now for a card from Bremen. This city of 570,000 people lies in northwest Germany. Locaed on the River Weser, Bremen is well known through the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale " Town Musicians of Bremen " . A statue is dedicated to it in front of the city hall. The bronze statue includes a donkey , a dog, a cat and a rooster, one atop the other. 


Ana used a 2021 stamp , 1 0f 2 in a set, showing Baby Animals.



Time for another aircraft card. I just seem to have an endless supply of these, don't I ? Here we have a Royal Air Maroc B767, shown at Paris - Orly in March 2002. This aircraft, CN-RNT  is 21 years old and was delivered to Royal Air Maroc in Feb 2002. It flew with that airline until Nov 2019. Then from Jan to Nov 2020 it was stored. It was back in service with Omni Air International in Nov 2020. CN-RNT is still active. 



 Jean Pierre used a 2019 stamp showing a Ceramic Kettle. It is 1 of 8 in a booklet of Ceramics




Card # 5 is from France. It shows Place Stanislas in the riverfront city of Nancy.  This 18th century square is the focal point of the city. Place Stanislas was built between 1752 and 1756 and has been on UNESCO's World Heritage List since 1983. 



Dominique used a 2022 stamp from a minisheet of 4, highlighting European Capitals - in this case Ljubljana. 



Time now for today's last card and wouldn't you know it - it's another aircraft card. 

It's another Royal Air Maroc plane - a B737 shown at Orly in September 2017. CN-RVG is sporting the airline's 60th anniversary colours. This aircraft is 15.5 years old and was delivered to Air Europa in Aug 2007. It was acquired by Transaero Airlines in 20`` and flew for them until 2015. It saw service from 2015 to 2017 with Eastern Air Lines. It started with Royal Air Maroc in 2017 and continues flying with then today. 


Jean Pierre used another of the Ceramics stamps that I mentioned earlier , on this card .


So ends this update. Thanks for today's cards go out to Jean Pierre, Dominique, Ana,  along with Nanni and Rizleen . 

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