Archive | June, 2012

Lost postcards

10 Jun

Darn the postal service.

For once, the USPS isn’t entirely to blame. I’ve experienced equally poor service from the Royal Mail.

Once, while standing in a long, slow Post Office queue, I heard a lady say, “the Queen would be ashamed.” The English, at the least the over 60s, really believe the Queen runs the mail. In fact, an effort underway to curb pensioner fraud had to address the misperception that anything that comes through “the Queen’s mail” is trustworthy.

We know better. As you can see, some of the postcards I sent were lost in the mail and have only recently surfaced. There are more out there, but at least the postcards from Brussels, Hvar, Vieques, Casablanca, Bath, Paris and Cambridge finally showed up.

More postcards to come, if the Queen ever bothers to deliver to them.

Postcard from Cambridge, England

5 Jun

Clare Bridge across the River Cam, in Cambridge, England

Hi-

Pinch me, I live here. I’m looking for Harry Potter and his friends around every cobble-stoned corner.

Surprised (and annoyed) to find this town is a major tourist destination. I need to stop projecting the tourist vibe so that the guys in straw hats no longer me if I “fancy a punt” every time I enter the market to buy groceries.

Lots of love,
A