POSTCARD N.204 -  SPAIN

Postcard sent on the 25th November; received on the 4th December 2025.

Postcard image: 2026

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The Festive Season of December, whatever your creed or beliefs is something that has earned a worldwide nature, the more so since the Gregorian calendar is adopted all over the world with very few exceptions, as standard.

So come December, amidst all the hustle and bustle of shopping for presents and decking the halls with boughs of holly there is also a beneficial positive surge in communication as people renew their best wishes the upcoming cycle for  family and friends 

There was a time when all this was done by mail. In my home, on top of some drawer next to where dad and my sister and I had laboriously constructed the nativity scene with the small painted clay figurines that once in a year came out of their wrapping in soft paper inside the proverbial shoe-box, festive cards and envelopes would be accumulated for a while, until it was time to pack it all up again.

Then came the electrons. I still remember the first time I sent Season's greetings through a keyboard and a screen.... what a fantastic thing... fast, funny, I could even choose images on-line, or annex one of my photos....

But soon the bewilderment withered away..... In truth, I missed the paper, the cards, the envelopes, the festive stamps....

To this day, and even though Christmas is a particular time of the year that I have some pretty mixed feelings about ,  I still rejoyce and exhultate whenever I receive a Season's greetings envelope or postcard... 

Such as this great one: Moltes Gràcies, Eva, un feliç any per a tu també! (Hope Deepl got it right... ;-))

Eva kindly used the full 2025 Christmas issue of Correos de España, dated of 14OCT2025:

This comprises the two stamps above. The A tariff (Domestic 20g) stamp features a video mapping image taken at the Torrejón de Ardoz Christmas Park, located close to Madrid, while the B Tariff (International 20g)   shows a light Nativity Scene decorating the lovely Cangas de Onis bridge, in Asturias..

There is a mechanical postmark on the card but it was not applied over the stamps but on the lower left corner of the card. Still it is quite faint and I cannot quite read the place of dispatch, although it seems to be Valencia.