COVER N.36 - Germany

Postmark:  - Briefzentrum 57 (Siegen) 31AUG21
Posted on the 31th August; received on the 4th September. (from 23AUG till 4SEP I was away, so the date of reception could be any day within that interval)
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One cannot argue against a map being the perfect type of paper to turn into an envelope. If maps are by nature way pointers for travellers then why shouldn't they be for stamps and addresses...? Thank you so much Tina, for the beautiful map/envelope you used/made(?) to send me an equally nice postcard (#31). On top of it, the map is also of a region I've been to a long time ago, but which I truly loved... Brittany in France. If only I could go now and follow the  roads on the envelope :-).... (I can't complain much though.., It's been only a week since I returned from hollidays that also included a bit of France...)

Stamps, left to right:

A really recent stamp: issued on 01APR2021, this 0,80€ stamp draws our attention to the Bundesgartenschau, (the federal garden Expo), a biennial event dedicated to horticulture, which, in 2021, was held in the capital city of the Free State of Thuringia, Erfurt, as can be read in large letters on the stamp image, which also includes some insects as well as stylised images of a flower and a vegetable of some sort.

Lighthouses... is there anyone who doesn't like them? For me, lighthouses is the quintessential philatelic theme, even if I don't have them on the list of my collecting themes:-)). The 0,70€ stamp was issued on 06JUN2019 as the year's emission of the annual lighthouse series of Deutsche Post. 

Built on the same year as the Eiffel Tower, to which it bears some structural resemblance, the Campen Lighthouse sits on the mouth of the Ems river close to the city of Emden, guiding the way in and out of the Northern sea. 65.3 metres tall, its light can be seen 55 km away from it.

The machine applied cancellation lets us know that the cover was sent from Siegen,  a German city in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia.