Today is a gift

I received a happy mail from a post-crosser, Sjoen.  

In the envelope, she included stamps that is made special for Postcrossing and paper ephemera that I can use for my art journal. 

What a beautiful day for me and you ! 

The Old Harbour at Rotterdam

@ Emile Luider / Imago, 1985

A postcard from Petra, Nederland. 

As Petra marked an arrow (<--->

tilted building is one of the group of Cube Houses which are located next to the historic merchant houses.  

The mixture of historic homes and modern houses that makes the Old Harbour splendid. 

Veel geluk

Veel Geluk, which means 'good luck' in Dutch.

Check here for wishing people in Good Luck in different languages. 

Windmills at Kinderdijk

The postcard that I received from Caroliene. 

The windmills at the dutch village of Kinderdijk are 

an UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997. 

Handelskade, Willemstad, Curaçao

Despite being nearly four hundred years old (Willemstad was founded in 1634), the city is remarkably well preserved and boasts some of the best Dutch colonial architecture in the world. The Handelskade, which follows the narrow patch of land on the Punda side of St. Anna Bay, was once the main commercial street in Willemstad, as merchant vessels could effectively come right up to the store fronts. However, the Penha department store (the yellow building at the far right, which dates from 1708) is still located along the Handelskade.

The historic area of Willemstad, including Punda and Otrabanda, was made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997, as it "is a European colonial ensemble in the Caribbean of outstanding value and integrity, which illustrates the organic growth of a multicultural community over three centuries and preserves to a high degree significant elements of the many strands that came together to create it."