Reading, The B747, Train Tracks and Doves Mailing a Postcard

 BLOG # 1574 ---  Day 360 of the Further Invasion of Ukraine ( let's not forget Crimea ). 

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It's time for another blog update. I have a number of cards, sent by a number of people , from a number of places. I think that about covers it . Now it's time to show the cards. 

My first card shows a view of Reading, a town located on the Thames and Kennet rivers in southern England. The town dates from the 8th century. One of the big draws in Reading is the annual Reading Festival, one of the country's biggest music festivals. 

Ron used a Universal Mail International Postcard rate stamp on his card. 

Next up is a Lufthansa B747. Lufthansa, Air China and Korean Air are still flying the Queen of the Skies, even though only about 2 percent of all passenger flights are now operated with the Jumbo 747. 

The first B747 was delivered to  Pan Am way back in Jan 1970. 1,574 B747s were produced over a 54 year period. The final B747 was delivered to Atlas Air in Jan 2023. 

Here is Jean Pierre's card. That's what they look like on the ground. 

Here's what they look like in flight. Pretty impressive, I think.

Jean Pierre used a stamp from 2022. It commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Hans-Jurgen Wischnewski, German Politician. 

It's time now to change the mode of transport. From planes to trains  or at least tracks. I always find trains and tracks to have a lonely aura about them. Living here on the Prairies, one can sometimes see trains and tracks for miles on miles. When I think about the engineer and the conductor on those long trains I know it's got to be a lonely job. I hope they get along. 

I'm sure the card's tracks are on the way to somewhere but unfortunately I don't know where that is. 

Silke used one of the often seen Flower definitive along with a stamp issued in 2019. It shows Campen Lighthouse in Lower Saxony state. 

This next card arrived from Spain. It is a World Postcard Day card from 2022.  It wasn't postmarked on World Postcard Day , but a few days earlier on 29 September. The design on the card is a Winner of the World Postcard Day contest 2022, by Pauline Chretien of France. 

Yised  used 2 stamps here. On the left , from 2019, a stamp issued for the National Stamp Design Competition. On the right, from 2021, a stamp issued for the Combat Corona Campaign and UNHCR Against Covid-19. 

That is the end of today's update. Thanks for the cards today goes out to Ron, Jean Pierre, Silke and Yised.