Elke1905

Hello, dear Postcrosser!

THANK YOU for sending me a card! My name is Elke, I am a geographer and I live near Stuttgart. I am married, we do have an adult daughter. My hobbies are nature, landscape management and nature conservation (also my profession), traveling, photography, reading, knitting, writing and receiving postcards/letters, stamps, gardening, meeting with friends and sharing a good meal and a glass of red wine...

I like postcards
... related to post and postcrossing
... showing sunflowers , beautiful trees or heart-shaped nature objects
... that show me a bit of the area where you come from - your city, a beautiful landscape, famous buildings, bridges, lighthouses etc. Your card is like an open window to see what other places and countries do look like.
And I do like map cards (collect US state cards).
If you do not know what to write - draw a sunflower on your card and/or write "SUNFLOWER" in your language! THANK YOU!

As a stamp collector I'd like to receive your card in an envelope if this doesn't mean extra postage for you. Receiving a card and a few used stamps from "somewhere in the world" always makes my day! All my duplicate stamps go to Bethel, a German charity organization.

Have a lot of postcrossing fun!
Elke

Expired cards: some....

"SUNFLOWER" is in
Afrikaans: Sonneblom
Algonquin: sindahàgan
Armenian: arewatsahik
Belarusian: Slanechnik
Bulgarian: sluntschogled
Catalan: girasol
Cantonese: Taai Joeng Faa
Czech: slunečnice
Chinese: xiàngrikui
Danish: Solsikke
Dutch: Zonnebloem
Estonian: päevalill
Finnish: Auringonkukka
French: tournesol
Gaelic/Irish: Ius na gréine
German: Sonnenblume
Greek: hxiavdos o etrjoios
Guernsey Patois: tournesoleil
Hawaiian: pua náná lá
Hindi: Soorajamukhee
Hungarian: Napraforgó
Indonesian: bunga matahari
Irish: Ius na gréine
Italian: girasole
Kannada: Suryakanthi
Kiswahili: alizeti
Komi (Ural): shondiyur
Korean: hea ba la gi
Latvian: saulespuke
Lithuanian: saulegraza
Malay language: Bunga Matahari
Mapodungùn (Mapuche people, Chile): Leliantü
Minnan language: li̍t-thâu-hue
Mordovian: "Ченжарма» (Chenzharma)
Nahuatt(Mexico): Akahuali
Navajo: Ndíyíliitsoh
Norwegian: Solsikke
Japanese: himawari
Philippines: mirasol + lappao
Polish: slonecznik
Portuguese: girassol
Rätoromanisch (Vallader): fluor da sulail
Romanian: Floarea soarelui
Russian: podsolnechnik подсо́лнечник
Sepedi: Lepolomo la Letsatsi
Slovakian: Slnecnica
Slovenian: Soncnica
Sibirian: Mogcoaryx ?
Spanish: girasol
Sundanese: kembang panon poe
Swedish: solros
Taiwanese: Xiàng ir kui
Thai: Dawg(=Flower)Tandawan
Turkish: aycicegi
Ukrainian: Sonyashnyk
Vietnamese: hu'o'ngdu'o'ng (huongduong)
Zapotek (Mexico): Yendri
Zhuang (China): yo myok da'ngoenz