POSTCARDS: 250 COUNTRIES NOW, 7 LEFT
My hometown is Penang Island in Malaysia.
I have also spent some years in USA and in China. Most of my travels are in Asia covering Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore, Nepal and most recenlty Laos and Myanmar. My other major visited countries are European countries and New Zealand and most recently Australia.
How did it all start?
"My first flight was on Pakistan International Airlines from Penang to New York John F Kennedy Airport - to go to school in America . PIA offered the cheapest air fare then. That flight had numerous stop-overs - Kuala Lumpur, Colombo, layover in Karachi, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Athens, Frankfurt, Paris and London. It was a great introduction to air travelling and going abroad. I got blocked ear and air sick too."
Like many, I will not be able to visit every country on earth. So on January 2006, I set a goal to receive a "real" postcard mailed from the place of origin of every country and territory with the nice postmarked stamp/s on the postcard itself - please do not mail postcard inside envelope.
Thanks to the help and generosity of fellow VTers and other travellers, I have received postcards sent from 246 countries and territories with 11 more challenging less travelled countries left.
I have added two other concurrent goals to cover more diverse and unique locations of each country as well as the wonders of our world heritage:
- 10 different postcards sent from each country.
- Postcard of all 981 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The list of received and wanted UNESCO WHS is found in one of my albums below.
If you are travelling or know someone residing in a remote country or UNESCO World Heritage site, hope you can send a postcard to me.
My postal address is:
SL Liew
G-8-4 Taman Bukit Jambul
11900 Penang, MALAYSIA
Thanks so much. I will always be glad to send you postcards too.
EUROPE AALAND-10 Abkhazia-1 Albania-8 ANDORRA-10 ARMENIA-10 AUSTRIA>10 Azerbaijan-5 Azores-7 BELARUS-10 BELGIUM>10 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA=10 BULGARIA-10 CROATIA>10 CYPRUS-10 CZECH REPUBLIC>10 DENMARK>10 ESTONIA-10 FAROE ISLANDS-10 FRANCE>10 FINLAND>10 GEORGIA-10 GERMANY>10 GIBRALTAR-10 GREECE>10 GUERNSEY-10 HUNGARY-10 ICELAND-10 IRELAND-10 ISLE OF MAN-10 ITALY>10 Jersey-9 KOSOVO-10 LATVIA-10 LEICHTENSTEIN-10 LITHUANIA-10 LUXEMBOURG-10 MACEDONIA-10 Madeira-6 MALTA-10 Moldova-5 MONACO=10 MONTENEGRO-10 Nagorno-Karabakh-1 NETHERLANDS>10 Northern Cyprus-6 NORWAY-10 POLAND>10 PORTUGAL>10 ROMANIA-10 RUSSIA>10 SAN MARINO-8 SERBIA-10 SLOVAKIA-10 SLOVENIA-10 -0 Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus-1 SPAIN>10 SWEDEN>10 SWITZERLAND>10 Transnistria-5 TURKEY>10 UKRAINE-10 UNITED KINGDOM>10 VATICAN CITY-10
Thanks DAO of UK for the VT meet postcard at Lagos, Portugal and thanks to all who signed the postcard. Cheers, SL Liew :)
Thanks to Basaic for two USA National Monument postcards, Cheers, SL :)
Hope they were not repeats.
Thanks to lotharscheer for mailing a postcard from Cuba of UNESCO World Heritage - La Isabelica, ruins of French-owned coffee plantation om Santiago de Cuba :)
Good, was worried an other one lost...
Thanks for all the wonderful birthday greetings... SL :)
I'm a little late, but I - along with our whole country - celebrated your birthday!
Belated happy birthday wishes!
Belated birthday greetings from Bunsch, Rhode Island USA
Thank you everyone for your nice birthday greetings. Cheers, SL Liew :)
Happy Birthday SLLiew!
Happy Birthday to you!
Selamat hari jadi Liew.... wish you all the best.... :)