gharbeia

From Cairo, living in Berlin with my family.

We love walking, hiking and camping, and swimming in the occasional lake or, the sea.

I have always been in love with postcards and stamps, as well as maps. I've been sending postcards to friends and family from every city I travelled to since 2003; that's a couple of dozens. I used the postcards as my globally distributed travel diary. I first found PC in 2005!

I mostly send cards while travelling, so I tend to send whatever I find; usually tourists' cards, or cards from events and museums or other special venues, and always posted from where I get them.

I like all postcards, so send a card that you'd actually like to keep.
My only reservation would be modern national symbols and flags, heads of states, or those related to war. But even then, the message on the back can make all the difference.

Handcrafted cards are surely welcome, fixed with a stamp and posted without an envelope. Exotic places, things by-gone, people in daily life, those about post, rail and lighthouses, artistic nudes, science, old advertisement and propaganda, fantastic and SciFi, and rock & roll are all appreciated.

Write whatever comes to your mind; the view from your window, your hobbies, your travel plans, a secret, or a wish.

I strive to read all cards, and write a meaningful reply in the registration message.

Aus Deutschland würde ich Sandmann und künstlerisch Edgar Postkarten, Fotografien von Klaus Ender oder Gemälde von Heinrich Zille schätzen.

From Russia, I like the illustrations of folklore tales by Nikolai Kotschergin and Alexander Kurkin.

As this the most relevant place to keep this record: before I started using Postcrossing, I had sent postcards from:
🇬🇧 (London, Salisbury, Canterbury, Downe, Edinburgh, Inverness, …), 🇮🇳 (Bangalore), 🇲🇦 (Marrakesh, Ouarzazat, Essaouira, Fas, Chefshaun, Tangier, Rabat), 🇾🇪 (Sanaa), 🇮🇪 (Dublin, Limerick, Howth, Dún Laoghaire, Cork, Inisheer, Galway, Donegal, Doolin, …), 🇦🇪 (Dubai), 🇱🇧 (Beirut, Byblos,Tyr, Sidon), 🇸🇾 (Damascus, Lattakia, Homs, Hama, Palmyra), 🇶🇦, 🇧🇭, 🇰🇼, 🇹🇳 (capital, ElKef, Elhammam, Qairawan, …), 🇮🇷 (Mashhad, Tehran, Isfahan), 🇺🇬 (Entebbe), 🇪🇸 (Comillas, Santander, Santillana del Mar, Bilbao, Vitoria, Barcelona, Valencia), 🇭🇺 (Budapest, Eger), 🇬🇷 (Athens, Heraklion, Xania, Agios Nikolaos, Anogeia, Agia Anna, Mikrolimano), 🇺🇸 (NY, DC, SF, Seattle), 🇫🇷 (Paris), 🇩🇪 (Berlin, Nürnberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Würzburg, Munich, Wesenberg, Königssee, Lübeck, Kallinchen, Lübbenau, Feriburg im Reisgau …), 🇦🇹 (Salzburg), 🇩🇰 (Copenhagen), 🇸🇪 (Stockholm)
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