A Postcrossing Postcard from Luca in Trento, in the North of Italy.
The Vigiliane Festival occurs on the Adige River, in Trento, which is in the Dolomiti Mountains in the North of Italy.
At the end of the festival, rafts of contestants from each of the ten city districts of Trento try to ensure that they are first to get the ring on the neck of the goose.
Sounds like a lot of fun!
Thanks Luca!
A Postcrossing Postcard from Henriikka in Finland. She writes:
"In June and July the sun doesn't go down in Lapland at all! It is quite amazing. I saw it for the first time in my life this summer."
Thanks, Henriikka.
A postcrossing Postcard from Sirpa, a travel agent who works in Jyväskylä
Thanks Sirpa!!
It looks like Dad made a great impression on the interviewer.
"Recommendation: A"
"Medical Arranged"
"Excellent fellow (Scotch origin) with wife and children to match. Suitable for A/P under C/N. Conditions explained".
The greatest journey starts with a step.
This is the form that Mum and Dad completed in order to apply to come to Australia in February 1963. They were 22 years old at the time. I wasn't even a year old, and Mum was pregnant with my sister, Karen.
Click on the thumbnails below to see any of the 32 pages in the application.
If you were a Ten Pound Pom, you can order your own set of documents. Just go to the Australian National Archives (http://naa.gov.au/) and follow "record search" links.
This little visitor decided to visit us at night and scavenge left over food from our deck.
We've sometimes caught them grabbing pieces of birthday cake when no one was looking.
Those eyes look almost like LED's don't they?
A Postcrossing Postcard from Kara in Jacksonville Florida.
Manatees are an endangered species that were hunted almost to extinction and are now protected. There are only 1,000 of them in the wild.
Thanks Kara!
A postcard I received Rob Lightbody while he was on his QE2 Mediterranean cruise in August 08.
I'll never get to cruise on QE2 myself, so someone sending a card to me while they were cruising on her is about as close as I'll get.
Thanks Rob, for letting me vicariously share a bit of history with you.
A postcrossing postcard from Leonardo Bellotti in Italy.
Leonardo is a photographer who makes his own postcards as well.
Thanks Leonardo!
A postcrossing postcard from Silvia in Drenthe, in the east of Holland.
Thanks Silvia!
