Time to celebrate! :)

Ciao! :D

how are you guys?

Monday is a day that, more or less, we all hate a little bit! It's the day on which start again the usual monotony after the short break of the weekend.
It's still raining in Milan but the forecasts are encouraging, there should be sunny for some days from Thursday ;)

This week will be very busy, I will have to work a little bit and study and on Thursaday I will be in Rome just for one day!
In exactly one week I will be in Paris for a few days :) I'm gonna getting excited! :D

Well, why the name of the post of today is "Time to celebrate"? Because, with the postcards that I received today (3 of them) I arrived to "quota" 102 :) I got over the 100 postcards.
For me it's a great achievement, I never expected that in such a short time, I would be able to collect all these postcards!
I'm really very happy!

And, I want to celebrate this day with a nice postcard that I got some days after St.Valentine. Vidas, a guy from Lithuania, sent me this very lovely postcard :D 

What is more beautiful than love?

NOTHING!

Besides talking in the narrow sense of love between two people, I mean love in general, love for a friend, to a sport, to a true passion.

So, I'm experiencing, thanks to all those who have sent me, that are sending me and that will send me postcards, a new type of love, became almost obsession, in a good way of course.

I wanna leave you a quote that I like a lot:

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” 

Robert A. Heinlein

Wish you a great week!

See you soon,

Giuliana

A special post for Ukraine

Ciao guys,

just came back in Milan.

My weekend was very nice with my family :) How was yours?

Well, these are two postcards that I got from Ukraine:

The first one is from the capital city Kiev (or Kyiv) and, in particular, the postcard represents the Monument of Independence.
Independence Square is one of three squares located along Khreshchatyk close to the northeastern end of the street. It is situated close to European Square, which is the terminal end of Khreshchatyk.
Maria, the girl that sent me this postcard, said me that Ukrainians used to unite there for their country to be free, prosperous and with european values of democracy, the rule of law, freedom of speech and movement. She truly believe in that! The statue represents a woman in Ukrainian national costume on a 40 meter column.

The second one represents little shots from many different cities:
Mukacheve, Kerch, Sebastopol, Kyiv, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Sambir.

* Mukacheve is located in southwestern of the country. The city is now a rail terminus and highway junction, and has beer, wine, tobacco, food, textile, timber and furniture industries. On the postcard there is the Palanok Castle located on a former 68 metre high volcanic hill. It has of 130 different rooms with a complex system of underground passages connecting them together. Upper left there is also represented The Town Hall considered the splendid ensemble's gem of the city.

* Kerch is considered to be one of the most ancient cities in Ukraine. On the picture there is the Yenikale fortress, that was built by Ottoman Turks in 1699–1706. The fortress occupied area of 25,000 m² and had two powder-magazines, arsenal, water reservoir, living houses, bath-house and mosque.

* Sebastopol is the second largest port in Ukraine. The Inkerman Monastery of St.Clement represented on the postcard, is a cave monastery in a cliff rising. It was founded in 1850 on the where the relics of St. Clement were kept.

* Kyiv the capital city. The Saint Andrew's Church is a major baroque church located in the city. It was constructed in 1747–1754, to a design by the Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Isn't nice? :)

* Kamianets-Podilskyi is a city on the Smotrych River in western Ukraine. This city has a big castle and its foundations were built using limestone. That's not strange? It seems so majestic!

* Sambir is a city of wester Ukraine. In 1668, a town hall was built here, and in the early 18th century, the local church was remodelled.

Thanks to Oksana for this postcard!
All seems very nice places. What do you think?

Before concluding, I would show you this video about the really sad situation that the country is experiencing.

Share it!


It's time to go bed here!

Have a great week,
Giuliana