Postcard moment

Work...coffee...work...coffee...and between those trotting routines, guess what, a postcard came a long way from beautiful Stockholm to my desk and it just brightened my day! In this jet-age where I most usually communicate with my friends around the globe using the internet, receiving a handwritten postcard is such a treat!

(Joanna, it's from our classmate Wolfgang! I suppose I gave him a headache by sending him an unusually long email the last time ;> the same email I wrote to you, too. He ended up sending a postcard, we ended up making a blog! ;>)



My favorite "postcard moment" is actually a scene from the movie "Under the Tuscan Sun" where Frances was helping another tourist, Rodney, to write a postcard for his mother. Though finally Rodney was angry at Frances because his mother wouldn't believe he wrote the postcard, I really love the way Frances put in writing what she saw, heard, smelled, and felt in that lively Tuscan market. "It even smells purple..." I find it unusually inspiring. Oh, doesn't it look like I got an idea around here?

My favorite travel journal with breath-taking pictures:
Notes from the Road

And a personal site with interest in culinary trips (and yoga, it's a plus!), wonderful pictures:
Skinny Chef

My favorite travel community with lots of travel notes, reports, and tons of pictures:

Particularly because the main destinations are Italy and France...
Slow Traveler

Because the travels are also seen from the artistic angle...
Artist at Large

And many destinations...
The Long Trip Home

Magazines on my (travel) shelves:
National Geographic Traveler
Vogue Entertaining & Travel