UNESCO - St Sohphia's Cathedral, Kiev, Ukraine

 

I stopped Postcrossing for a couple of years and so stopped blogging too because no postcards were coming in.  But now I'm back doing both and very happy about it. I stopped postcrossing because of my horrible postman.  My letterbox is big enough to put most mail through, even pretty thick packets, but the postman insisted on folding everything and then putting it in the letterbox.  

VERY upsetting to see my postcards folded in half with big creases.  I of course asked him to stop and explained how upsetting it was and he said it was no problem and he's stop doing it.  But, did he stop?  NO!!  I couldn't bear it so had to give up postcrossing and hoped he'd move on to another area.  It took almost 2 years but then a new postman turned up one day and my mail was unfolded so I tentatively started to postcross again. All was well for a while but I saw my old mailman delivering in the area yesterday and I have all my fingers crossed that he wasn't just absent temporarily.  I don't want him back!! *Cries*.   Please, CROSS YOU FINGERS FOR ME! 

For now though, I have plenty of older (and some recent) cards to work through so here we go....

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I thought I'd start with this one since it's a country that is on my mind a lot lately.  My heart and prayers go out to the people of Ukraine and hope their suffering will end soon.  

Olga sent me this UNESCO card some time ago and it shows Views of St. Sophia Cathedral built in the 11th Century so they're over 1000 years old!.  Kyiv is known as the 'City of Golden Domes' and I hope that these domes will last another 1000 years.   Thank you Olga, I hope you're safe <3

UNESCO - St Sohphia's Cathedral, Kiev, Ukraine

Very nice addition to my UNESCO collection.  This one covers 'Kiev - St Sophia Cathedral and related Monastic buildings, kiev-pechersk lavra'. Galyna says that in Summer it looks great and in Winter when everything is grey the gold towers give hope.

Brno, Czech Republic

Lovely card from the Czech Republic showing the town of Brno.  From what I can tell on the back it's The Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul, originally a Romanesque Basilica which was rebuilt in the Gothic style.

UNESCO, St Isaac's Cathedral, St Petersburg

This is a UNESCO card and although I already have this site I'm always happy to have multiples if they're different views.  It comes from Igor in St Petersburg and shows St Isaac's Catherdral which was built between 1818 - 1858 and is the largest orthodox basilica in the world.