Hoorn

This card was sent to me from Hoorn - the province in the  North Holland.

"Hoorn" is a very old Dutch word for "corner", the cost makes a bend there.

It is located on the IJsselmeer, 35 kilometres north of Amsterdam, and acquired city rights in 1357. Hoorn has 70 196 inhabitants. The area of the municipality is 52,49 km² (32,62 km² consists of water, mainly the Markermeer), and consists of the following villages and/or districts: Blokker, Hoorn, Zwaag, and parts of Bangert and De Hulk.

Cape Horn, the most southerly point of the Americas, was named after the town by Willem Schouten, who rounded it in 1616. The Hoorn Islands are also named after this city.

The City Of Hoorn has a twin city status with:

• Beersel, Belgium, since 1979
• Malacca Town, Malaysia, since 1989
• Příbram, Czech Republic, since 1992

Anjun

This card I've got from my friend from The Netherlands. Thank you a lot (one more time:)) my dear Fiona.

Anjun it's a small country-side town with some about 1000 inhabitants. The church named "St. Michaëls" build in 1100. 

The little farm doesn't exist because it was destroyed some months ago. On farm place people want to build a Swedish house. 

The mill is a museum now. 

They have a lot of pastures, sheeps and cow. 

Seems it's a great place for me! Quiet and calm - full of relax :D 

Holland

One day, when I had a very bad mood I opened my mailbox and...I've got this card:

I don't know do you will believe me or not, but...this card made my day in that period :) However I am not sure why :).

Blackberries

Finally I have got a postcard. Today I opened my mailbox and I found this tasty card inside :)

The postcard came to me from The Netherlands from Natalie. It showed a painting by Margaret Tarrant (1888 -  1959). She was a daughter of the artist Percy Tarrant, trained at Clapham School of Art and at Heartherley's. She worked in watercolour, painted figurative subjects, landscapes and wild flowers, but is best know for her illustrations for children's book an designs for cards. much of her painting was inspired by the Surrey countryside, where she lived, but also travelled abroad gathering material for her work.

P&L exchange postcards :)

This postcard I have got from Wendy from Holland. Both of us take access in postcard exchanging between penpals :)

This is a typical Dutch postcard. You can see on it flowers, windmill and wooden shoes.

Wooden shoes

This is postcard from Netherlands. As you can see, it showed shoes. However it is not normal shoes - it is traditional wooden shoes. 

In the past "klompen" manufactured from poplar tree and were worn by Dutch peasants. Today there are Dutch symbol. Wooden shoes are very interesting souvenir for tourists, but still exist possibility to see the farm guy with this kind of shoes when he drives on his tractor. 

Currently produce approx. 3 millions this shoes by year. There are warmer and more drier from the rubber shoes, so there are wear mostly in the countryside. Shoes, used by Dutch farmers for many years, only recently been approved by EU as shoes – cheap, robust and secure. 

If any one from The Netherlands will be read this - please can you tell me more about this wooden shoes? There are really comfortable or not?:)