Name: soazig

Days on this site: 312

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Home location: Eastern Asia

What is shared about oneself:

My name is Françoise, I am a former history and geography teacher, now retired as I am 78 years old. I have lived in China since 1978... I am interested in many things especially history, reading all kinds of books, cooking and baking, correspondence, postcards, nature, animals. I follow the international news with great interest but do not think a postcard site should be an arena for expressing one's beliefs in that field....

NOTE to Russian friends:please note that I have already received MANY cards of the Bronze Horseman (about 30!) and the main churches in St. Petersburg. I love and admire them, but please rather send cards of less well-known places, like your hometown......

Note to everybody: I try my best to send cards that belong to the themes and categories you specify in your profile. Please try to do the same. I know it is not always easy, but I receive too many cards that do not fit in my collection.......

Postcard desires:

I mostly love to receive single-view tourist cards (showing religious buildings, public buildings, railway stations, town halls, castles, whatever there is where you live), so as to know places that I will very likely not have a chance to visit in this life-time. I also love map-cards (including MOTW), animal illustrations (mostly cats, hedgehogs, owls, but I am open-minded about other animals). I also like cards of vintage food advertisements, political cartoons of older times, statues of famous (even only locally) persons or animals. sculptures in the public space, illustrated tourist/travel posters, zoo postcards...

What I am NOT keen on receiving: greeting cards whatever the occasion, "cute" babies or white kittens, flowers, painting reproductions, pin-ups, nude, cooking recipes, religious or political propaganda in the message written on the card, movie stars or singers, sport people. And please if you send a card showing a place, I need to know what this place is, where it is, so try not to hide the legend or send cards without a legend.....I have no place in my collection for cards which are "nowhere", however lovely they are...Sorry!

Thanks for your kindness and attention!

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Languages: French, English (fluent), can read some Chinese, Italian, Spanish, very basic Russian and German

Phobias: sport postcards, Santa Claus, Harry Potter, Disney