Polish Independence Day

Today, 11th November, is an Independence Day of Poland. It is celebrated to commemorate the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918 after 123 years of partition by Russia, Prussia and Austria. During this time Poland didn't exist as a country and disappeard from maps.

Here's a short video presenting a history of this holiday.

And here you can watch a nice video showing scenes from last year's celebrations in Warsaw:)

Religious stamps

Whenever I choose stamps in Polish post office online shop, I am amazed with the amount of religious stamps they offer. There are stamps with pope, stamps with priests, stamps with saints, stamps with Maria icons... Look just how many Maria's there are! I am not religious however I do like some of them, those quirky looking ones... Still, the number of them is quite shoking, isn't it? Do you have religious stamps in your country?

 

Just some of my blah blah plus a beautiful song of a beautiful lady with a beautiful voice

Have you ever had a year with constant bad luck? This year it doesn't seem to leave me really! All the time I'm either sick or something bad happens. Now I'm sick again and today I had a flood in my office!O.o  Someone knows some way to repel bad luck?

Fortunatelly I don't need to pick my nose out of the warm house today and 'thanks' to the flood I came back home early so I'm relaxing writing a letter, drinking tea with lemon and eating green chocolate mint candies from my penpal. Listening to Buika, my new love whom I discovered not long ago.

 

 

Doesn't she have a unique voice? I can't have enough of this song and I listen to it over and over again.

Well, I go back to my letter. I hope you're enjoing your evening:)

La Dolce Vita

I finally used my cupcake stamps... I smeared the black ink a little:/ This one went inside bigger envelope so no address and stamps on it.

A postcard from... Berlin, Germany

Showing the Reichstag building.