POLAND #19 Direct Swap

Ystad is a town, and the seat of Ystad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden, with 18,350 habitants in 2010. The settlement dates back to the 11th century and the town has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre and tourist attraction. The ferry port has services to the Danish island of Bornholm and to Świnoujście (formerly Swinemünde), in Poland, forming part of the E65 road route south from Malmö.

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POLAND #18

Warsaw  is the capital and largest city of Poland. It stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland, roughly 260 kilometres (160 mi) from the Baltic Sea and 300 kilometres (190 mi) from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population is estimated at 1.740 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2.666 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 9th most-populous capital city in the European Union. The first historical reference to Warsaw dates back to the year 1313, at a time when Kraków served as the Polish capital city.

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POLAND #17

Masuria  is a region in northern Poland famous for its 2,000 lakes. It has been the part of East Prussia inhabited by Polish-speaking, Lutheran Masurians. Masuria occupies much of the Masurian Lake District. Administratively, it belongs to Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

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POLAND #15 & #16 Direct Swap

There are three hypothetical explanations for the origins of the name Siemianowice: either it comes from seven huts which were called Siedminowice/Siedmionowice in Old Polish; from the old legend about Siemion (Siemian), Michał and Maciej, or Siemion, Michał and Jakub; or it comes from ziemia nawa which means earth taken away from water

Spodek (meaning "saucer" in Polish) is a multipurpose arena complex in Katowice, Poland, opened in 1971 at ul. Korfantego 35 under the name Wojewódzka Hala Widowiskowo-Sportowa w Katowicach (Voivodeship Sport and Show Arena in Katowice), under which it is known in the Polish technical/architectural literature, and under which it formally functioned until 1997.

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POLAND #14 Direct Swap

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POLAND #13

Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay (of the Baltic Sea), in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto), with a population near 1,400,000. Gdańsk itself has a population of 460,427 (December 2012), making it the largest city in the Pomerania region of Northern Poland.

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POLAND #12 Direct Swap

Siemianowice Śląskie aka Siemianowice; is a city in Upper Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice, in its central district in the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union - a metropolis with a population of 2 million people and is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Brynica river (tributary of the Vistula).

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POLAND #11 Direct Swap

The Cathedral Basilica of St. James the Apostle, Szczecin was built by the citizens of the city and modeled after the Church of St. Mary in Lübeck. It is the largest church in Pomerania and for many years after the reformation was part of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church, but since World War II and the handing over of Stettin to Poland it has been rebuilt as a Roman Catholic cathedral. The church was established in 1187 and the Romanesque-style building was completed in the 14th century.

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Sent on: 23/01/2015
Received on: 11/02/2015
Travel time: 19 days

POLAND #9 & #10 Direct Swap

Łódź  is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country. The city's coat of arms is an example of canting: depicting a boat, it alludes to the city's name which translates literally as "boat."

The Beskids or Beskid Mountains is a traditional name for a series of mountain ranges in the Carpathians, stretching from the Czech Republic in the west along the border of Poland with Slovakia up to Ukraine in the east.

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Sent on: 23/10/2014

Reeived on: 08/01/2015

Travel time: 77 days

POLAND #4, #5, #6, #7 & #8 Direct Swap

I was immensely happy when I received this gift from my friend Magdalena, she sent me postcards from Wadovice, and its most famous son, Pope John Paul II. I loved the surprise.

St. John Paul II blesses us!

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Sent on: 18/11/2014
Received on: 05/12/2014
Travel time: 17 days

POLAND #3 Direct Swap

Nowogard is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship Province of northwestern Poland. Nowogard comes from "Nowo" and "Gard" which means a "new fortified settlement" in an pomeranian, variation of the Polish language. The city's main tourist attraction is a large lake which extends to the center of Nowogard. 

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Sent on: 19/09/2014
Received on: 06/10/2014
Travel Time: 17 days

POLAND #2 - Direct Swap

Pope John Paul II is one of the personalities I most admire, his story the front of the church was a very important period. This post was sent from  the birthplace of the Polish pope, Wadowice. So this postcard is doubly special!

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Sent on: 05/09/2014
Received on: 17/09/2014
Travel time: 12 days

POLAND #1 - Direct Swap

This is my first direct swap. And it is very special, the envelope, the stamps, and the post are very beautiful! An amazing work!

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The postcard shows a painting of the Polish painter Stanisław Wyspiański.

Sent on: 18/08/2014
Received: 29/08/2014
Travel time: 11 days