I receive a lot of emails offering to send me products to review… travel books, CDs, language-learning tools, you name it. I’m halfway through several books which I dip into before I drift off to sleep each night, and I’m trying to learn Italian again. And I will get around to writing those reviews soon, … Read more about Travel by postcards: A Little Beijing
I was delighted to discover that Budget Travel asked readers on their forum the other day: Do you still send postcards? To which they received a whopping 300+ comments! Way back in February, starting on Valentines Day to be precise, I began writing a series of posts on postcards, inspired by seeing racks of faded … Read more about Postcard stories: share your passion here
Postcards are things I’m passionate about – whether it’s browsing, writing, sending, or collecting them – so I’ve decided to write a magazine article about the travel postcard. If you share the passion and would like to share any postcard tales with me for my story, I’d love to read them. I’m keen for anything … Read more about Postcard stories
While I admit to writing personal messages on the postcards I send to people (knowing too well that a bored postman somewhere might have a read), I’ve never considered sharing secrets on a card for the world to see. But that’s exactly what thousands of people all over the planet do when they send their … Read more about Postcards: sending secrets
When I used to buy postcards I would browse the racks for hours. Or so it seemed. The card had to be just right. It had to represent as accurately as possible the things I had experienced, the places I had been, and the stuff I had seen. If there was a connection between the … Read more about Postcards: our processes of selection and identity formation