#201: First postcard from Montserrat

A map of the West Indies

Butterfly stamp

Received from Mark from Brades.

Montserrat is approximately 300 miles east-southeast of Puerto Rico and 30 miles southwest of Antigua.

#191: First postcard from Tunisia

Map of Tunisia

Taher Cheriaa stamp

Received from Mehdi from Hamman-Lif. . Please check out his blog here.

Tunisia is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east.

#190: First postcard from Tristan da Cunha

Location and views of Tristan da Cunha

Tristan Albatross stamp

Received from Dawn from Tristan da Cunha.

Tristan da Cunha lies 1,243 miles from nearest inhabited land, Saint Helena,1,491 miles from South Africa and 2,088 miles from South America.

#91: First postcard from Western Sahara

Map of Morocco

Commemorative and Rabat stamps

Received from Radim from Olomouc, Czech Republic. Please check out his blog here.

Western Sahara is bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the extreme northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

#70: Second postcard from Greece

Map of Greece

Sailing ship stamp

Received from Michaël through the "Starring You" project. Check it out and participate to get nice cards like this from around the world.

Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north and Turkey to the northeast.

#97: Second postcard from Mexico

Greetings from Cozumel

Basket weaving stamp

Received from Herb from Windsor, Canada (?).

The border between Mexico and the United States is the second largest border in the world (only the United States-Canada border is longer).

#17: First postcard from Guadeloupe

Map of Guadeloupe

Marianne and cartoon stamps

Received from Olga from Petit Bourg. See the postcard I sent her in return here.

Guadeloupe's nearest neighbours are Montserrat and Antigua and Barbuda to the northwest and north and Dominica to the south.

#107: Second postcard from Madeira

Map of Porto Santo island

Madeira Europa stamps

Received from Catarina from Porto Santo.

Porto Santo is home to the house of Christopher Columbus. Columbus is supposed to have lived here with his wife Filipa Moniz.

#18: Second postcard from Scotland

Map of Scotland

Queen Elizabeth stamp

Received from Doyel from Glasgow.

Scotland's population of 5.1 million live in only 3% of the total land area. Source - back of the postcard.

#119: Second postcard from French Polynesia

Bora Bora

Makatea stamp

Received from Sara from Pīra'e.

Bora Bora is actually Pora Pora in Tahitian (there is no letter B), meaning first born.

#120: First post from British Indian Ocean Territory

Map of the Chagos Archipelago

Will and Kate stamp

Handstamp on the back

Received from Major Richard Lawley XO HQ Bt BIOT (Foreign Office representative, magistrate, coroner, planning officer and nice bloke) from Diego Garcia.

British Indian Ocean Territory is situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia.

#119: First postcard from French Polynesia

Map of Tahiti

Pearl, crab and tortoise stamps

Received from Emeline from Fa'a'ā in an envelope.

French Polynesia is neighboured by the Cook Islands to the west, the Pitcairn Islands to the southeast and Kiribati to the northwest.

#90: First postcard from Latvia

Map of Latvia

Flag/map, coat of arms and lighthouse stamps

Received from Oksana from Riga.

Latvia is bordered to the north by Estonia, to the south by Lithuania, to the east by Russia, and to the southeast by Belarus and by a maritime border to the west with Sweden.

#33: First postcard from Hawai'i

Highlights of Hawai'i

Apple stamp

Received from Julia from Honolulu.

Hawai'i is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean.

#106: Second postcard from the Philippines

Map of the Philippines

Sealife stamps

Received from Roselyn from Quezon City from a lottery in the Facebook Postcrossing group.

The Philippines are neighboured to the north across the Luzon Strait by Taiwan; west across the South China Sea  by Vietnam; southwest is the island of Borneo across the Sulu Sea, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia; while to the east it is bounded by the Philippine Sea and Palau.

#104: First postcard from New Zealand

Map of New Zealand

Bee stamp

Received from Susan from Auckland.

New Zealand is situated east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 600 miles south of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga.

#100: First postcard from Namibia

Namib Desert

Bird stamp

Received from Wendy from the Hague, Netherlands.

Namibia borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. 

#94: First postcard from Macedonia

Map, flag and views of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Received from Ana from Skopje. Please check out her blog here.

Macedonia is bordered by Kosovo to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south, and Albania to the west.

#17: First postcard from Saint Martin

Map and views of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten

Marianne stamp

Received from Sherona from Mont Vernon.

Saint Martin is separated from Anguilla  by the Anguilla Channel. It shares a border to the south with Sint Maarten.

#93: First postcard from Montenegro

Map of Montenegrin coast

Paragliding stamps

Received from Katarina from Tenja, Croatia.

Montenegro is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south-east.