Today some of my traveling postcards reached their destination, so I could send some new postcards for 2 new people. And, I also received one from England. In this post I would like to introduce the connection between an Indian writer and a very beautiful town nearby the Lake Balaton, but I will also show a natural wonder from my beautiful country.
TO MALAYSIA
The Malaysian girl doesn't write too much to her profile, she wrote only that she loves doing Postcrossing. Well, me too :) I decided to send her a touristic postcard - from Balatonfüred, which is not that far from my home village. I live about 40 kilometers far from it. It's pretty close to me, because I spent 5 years there as a high school students. Actually I hated my class there, but the town was amazing - it's one of the most beautiful towns at the Lake Balaton, the biggest lake in Central Europe. I lived there in a dormitory, which I really enjoyed, not like my class. With my room-mates we often went to the beach and to the mole to study or just to hang out. It has a street nearby the lake which is named after Tagore, the Indian writer. On the postcard you can see that street on the 2nd picture in the first row. So why does it have its name after an Indian writer? In November, 1926 he arrived to the sanatorium of Balatonfüred, where he could recover successfully. For this reason he planted a tree and wrote a poem as well:
,,When I am no longer
on this earth, my tree
Leth the the ever-renewed
leaves of thy spring,
Murmur to the wayfahrer:
The poet did love while he lived."
After his movement many famous person planted their own ones: like Bertalan Farkas (the first Hungarian astronaut), Gandhi, Mandelbrot, etc. Above the trees many sculptures can be found in the park.
TO THE USA
The American woman likes getting postcards about natural wonders, so I decided to send this one about the stalactite cave of Abaliget. It can be found in the Danube-Dráva National Park. In Hungary we have a more famous stalactite cave, that is in Aggtelek, in Aggtelek National Park. Aggtelek is in the UNESCO World Heritage since 1995.
FROM ENGLAND
The couple from England treated me with this postcard, a napkin and some stamps. Firstly both of us were surprised, because the card arrived only in 2 days. I got my English penpal's letter on the same day, but she sent it a long time ago - so this postcard definitely arrived in a pretty short time. The napkin and the stamps I got were very nice. I put the stamps into my notebook immediately. You know, before I went to Indonesia I decided to open one notebook for each continents, and every country got its own page, so now I can put the stamps into their place. With this system I probably won't have any dublicates.
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