POSTCARD N.260 - GERMANY

Postcard sent on the 28th October; received on the 2nd November 2026

Postcard image: Sylt Island 

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Sylt, the largest island in the North Sea,  Danke sehr Alex for another fine postal from a place that I would be very happy to visit.... 

Sylt is some 38 km long from tip to tip and one its western coast it boasts a 40 km long sandy beach (something that, being Portuguese, fails to impress me since it is not difficult to find such long stretches of sand&sea along our west coast, too)

Although there are roads on the island and vehicles are allowed on them, there is no road connecting it to the mainland.

As such, Sylt can only be reached by train, from Germany,  or by ferry, from Denmark, as it was the case with this postcard, as Alex informed me, something that is attested by the stampmark of MV Sylt Express, the ferry, curiously registered in Cyprus, in which it made the crossing from Rømø.

Judging from the pictures in the card, the Island is a hotspot for lighthouse fans, and that alone would justify a visit, but there seems to be quite a few more constructions worthy of inspection...

  

Alex used two stamps of the "World of Letters" definitive series; a 0.15 € - Letters Peacock - issued on 10AUG2024 and a 1.10 € Letters Aircraft issued on 01MAR2022.

Postmark from Keitum, a village in the former municipality of Sylt-Ost, now merged with two other  former municipalities - Westerland and Rantum - into the municipality of  Gemeinde Sylt.