After a long time, I decided to run my Postcrossing blog again. I have been traveling so much in the last year that I didn't see the sense of writing blog, as I could not really follow the happenings on Postcrossing.
Now, after my 6 months internship in Indonesia I decided to continue doing Postcrossing, and post my beautiful postcards here.
Today I'm going to send 3 postcards out:
TO BELARUS
The girl had a very special wishlist: she wanted to get Polish postcards or cards from the Soviet era. As I don't have any in my collection, I decided to send a Budapest postcard for her. She wrote she cannot speak English, she has started learning it and she uses Google Translator most of the times. Therefore I didn't want to write her too much, but of course I introduced her our little country and our beautiful capital city.
TO GERMANY
The woman likes to see special places from the postcrossers' countries, so I decided to send this postcard about the Central Market in Budapest. It's the largest (10,000 square meters) and oldest indoor market in Budapest, which located in the heart of Budapest in Fővám tér. It's a huge market hall, where fruits, vegetables and meats can be found on the ground floor, while the second floor is all about touristy souvenirs. When I go abroad, I usually come here to buy souvenirs for my friends or colleagues. It also have a lot of Hungarian restaurants, where people can try the traditional Goulash Soup, the Lángos, and many other Hungarian meals. For Hungarians this floor is a little bit pricy, but for foreigner it's a good place to try many kind of food or buy souvenirs for their beloved ones. If you happen to stay in Hungary, you shouldn't miss visiting this amazing place. It's not that far from other interesing points, so you can make plans easily.
TO SOUTH AFRICA
The woman had her own wishlist, including postcards about people. To be honest I don't really like postcards with people, so I decided to send her this. Logically it would have been better to send the Budapest postcard for her than to the German lady, but anyway! :D I like sending cards according to the people's wishlist, because I'm also more pleased when I receive some with my favourite themes.
She likes reading and asked the postcrossers to write about their favourite book - so I wrote mine: the Memoirs of a Geisha. I like stories about other cultures and happenings in the past (no, not history books! :D Actually I always hated history in my life). Memoirs of a Geisha includes everything I'm interested in: the culture and a very interesting story that happened with a young girl in Japan before the 2nd World War. I have seen the movie, which is also amazing. I have to tell you that the movie and the book are totally different, if you read the book, you won't be bored of watching the movie, and vice versa, though the second part of the book is not that interesting. You know, in the beginning the author wrote how the girl made a friendship with a man who made a deal with her father to sell and go to an "okiya" as a slave. Okiya is a house where geishas live. So yes, I don't want to write down the whole story, because maybe some of you want to read the book or watch the movie, but I really suggest you to read or watch it. You won't be disappointed if you like other cultures!
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