Есть ли хоть одна estampa в музее de la estampa?

Потерпев очередную неудачу в стремлении попасть в музей при Почтовом дворце, мы не отчаялись, а продолжили музейный рейд и отправились в Museo Nacional de la Estampa. Музей находится в Историческом центре, доехать до которого можно на метро.

Каникулы в Мексике. Лев Троцкий и его открытки

Я не большой любитель истории и не фанат Льва Троцкого, но пройти мимо его дома в Мексике было бы странным. Что делал Троцкий в Мехико? Прятался. Именно туда в 1937 году он бежал из Норвегии вместе с женой Натальей. А помог им в этом Диего Ривера.

Рейд по музеям Мехико. Дом Фриды Кало

Сказать, что в Мехико много музеев, значит ничего не сказать. Мне кажется, даже если сложить музеи всех городов, в которых я побывала до этого, перевес будет в сторону мексиканской столицы. Приходя в очередной музей, я с переменным успехом напоминала себе, что дома уже лежит неприлично приличная стопка открыток (бо́льшая часть которой осталась ждать меня в Мексике вместе с кучей летних вещей). До главного музея мы так и не дошли (то есть дойти-то дошли и даже пофоткались, но внутрь не попали). Зато посетили разные музеи-малютки, к которым у меня необъяснимая любовь. Жалко только, что в музее шоколада не побывали. А вдруг там открытки шоколадные? =D

Злоключения русского посткроссера в Мексике

Почтовых ящиков в Мексике нет. Вообще. Ладно, ладно, преувеличиваю, но впечатление складывается именно такое. Мне пытались объяснить это ещё несколько лет назад, но в моей голове это просто не уложилось. Тогда я подумала, что это проблема конкретного дома.
Нет.

Приключения русского посткроссера в Мексике. Часть II

Став посткроссером Мексики, я отправилась искать открытки. Посткроссеры знают, что поиск этот, начавшись, никогда заканчивается.
К слову, поменять посткроссерское гражданство оказалось не так-то просто.

Приключения русского посткроссера в Мексике

Посткроссер остаётся посткроссером, даже отложив на целый год дела почтовые и позабыв, как выглядит открытка и куда клеится марка. Поэтому, сама о том не догадываясь, я оказалась у главпочтамта Мехико уже на следующий день после прибытия в этот город. Впрочем, узнала об этом я только неделю спустя, а в тот день так и прошла мимо.

Here is that special postcard, I told before)
The world is full of beautiful people. Reinhold sent me this card after reading my postcrossing profile. He wrote needed words there, and I'm very thankful to him.
Please, make people smile. Without any reason. People need warmth.

The words at the stamp mean "Never war again". And look at the owl!)

 

I don't send many postcards last time, but now I have some minutes (oh, my ending vacation!), so these cards are going to their new houses =) I hope, they'll make addressees smile.

Grass for the cat, strawberry for Lena and the postcards for the heart ♥
Now, when I don't have many reasons to smile and also when I don't receive many postcards, these kind cards were a nice surprise.
They are the illustrations drawn by Anna Tvyerdochlebova for the book written by Anna Nikolskaya. It's a charity project, and if you understand Russian, you can read about the book here.

Something beautiful for Brenda in the Netherlands, who collects tea labels.

And this is the letter for my friend Samantha from USA.

Just founded an envelope I made in the autumn 2013, and decided to show it) This letter was sent to Poland.

Oh, happy day!) I received two I-cards this evening =)
The first one was kindly sent by Betty from Hungary. From Hungary! And as you see, it shows two happy dreadlocks travellers in a beautiful city.
And another one is with Bob Marley. And with Hugo Chávez on the stamp. Girls send it last Sunday from the postcrossing meeting, which I had to miss because of neverending work.
Thank you, girls, you are wonderful!

And a little something not about postcards, but about life.
When you can't stop crying and wonder, how you still can wake up every morning, when feeling like that you go down to the subway and see there an old man, playing accordion to get some money and singing about the sun and great country... His eyes are clear like the sun he is singing about, and he smiles. And you smile, too, you just don't have choice.
At the moments like this you make sure again and again, that Bob was is so right, million times right, saying those words about music.
I wish, you could hear that grandfather today.

Elephants like writing letters, did you know?
They really do, especially to the loved ones ♥

Today: salt tea with elephant, strawberries and Spain.
Thanks to Natasha and me myself)

As I promised, here you see some more postcard flowers from girls. All sent by Natasha and Lena.

And my poor Stromanthe at work, which is getting better after January illness.

–27 °C outside and almost no work. The best time for writing some postcards. Even cat is agree.

Beautiful orchid came from Teng in Malaysia.
This June I got my first (real) orchid. It has already lost flowers, and I hope, it'll have new ones later, but now I can see them on the postcard.
Thank you, Teng!

Long Night of Museums, or Postcrosser'll find the postcards anywhere

There was the Night of Museums here in Ekaterinburg, like in many other cities in the world. I chose five museums to visit, and three of them were in the Literary Square, because I love literature and because it's one of my favourite places in this city.
It's very green and calm place, with singing birds and old buildings. Let's go! =)

The first museum I visited was the Museum of the literary life of the Urals in the XIX century. To tell the truth, it wasn't very interesting, because there was a small exhibition about Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov, and a guide didn't tell us anything new (but M. Lermontov is one of the great Russian writers, and if you are thinking what to read now, maybe you'll read him? :) By the way, he was not only the writer, he also played music and drew).

Though the museum itself wasn't so interesting tonight, I was glad, that I went there. First of all, it's an old house(and I love it), and its garden was full of flowers. They were so beautiful and smelled so sweet. These are only some of them. Unfortunately they are not as beautiful on the pictures as in real life, but look.

 And now look, what I found there! Before the main exhibition there was another one. So small, but very interesting still. There were old (original) postcards, drawn by Lyubov Endaurova (Любовь Эндаурoва) and her sister Elisaveta Bem (Елизавета Бём) or Elisabeth Bohm, the most successful prominent author of postcards in XIX century Russia. Maybe you even have received their reprint.

And some more postcards =)

After this museum I went to the former post relay near the house of the writer Fyodor Reshetnikov (Фёдор Решетников). A guide was very enthusiastic, and he told us interesting facts about postmen and coachmen. There were a lot of people and small rooms, so I couldn't take pictures. But I can show you some pictures of this place, taken in different time.

If you happen will visit Ekaterinburg, find time for the Literary Square, you'll love it. Or better let's go together =)