POSTCARD N.46 -  Germany

Postcrossing postcard sent on the 1st November; received on the  7th November
Postcard image: The Lünburger Heide (Lunburg Heath)
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Heather. The type of plant I would usually associate with Scotland or Ireland. but it seems that we can "go lassie go, and we'll all go together, to pull wild mountain thyme all around the bloomin' heather" in Germany, close to Hannover, the capital of Lower saxony, as the postcard I received from Gisela clearly proves. Thanks a lot Gisela!.

The Lünburger Heat is located in the north of Germany and most of it has nature reserve status, being in fact Germany's oldest Nature reserve, it seems.

I am absolutely certain that the sky on the postcard shot was replaced, but skies can be pretty much the same everywhere, now heather expanses ... only where you can have them, and Gisela tells me there's a lot of heather and sheep in the region.

Gisela used a 0,95€ stamp, issued on 02APR2020 as a single stamp set in both self-adhesive and gummed versions, dedicated to Metro stations a theme that would be continued in 2021 with 2 more stamps. The station in the illustration is Marienplatz in Munich.

The machine applied cancellation tells us that the postcard was sent through Briefzentrum 30 (Hannover) and it includes a rather nice vignette of the New Town Hall of Hannover, that according to some references I consulted on the internet, has been applied since june 2012 (but I'm not really sure about this, since my german is more than scant...)