United Kingdom - Saint Helena - Gough and Inaccessible Islands

"The site, located in the south Atlantic, is one of the least-disrupted island and marine ecosystems in the cool temperate zone. The spectacular cliffs of Gough and Inaccessible Islands, towering above the ocean, are free of introduced mammals and home to one of the world’s largest colonies of sea birds. Gough Island is home to two endemic species of land birds, the gallinule and the Gough rowettie, as well as to 12 endemic species of plants, while Inaccessible Island boasts two birds, eight plants and at least 10 invertebrates endemic to the island." 

Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1 - Gough Island
Gough Island. Thanks to Rachel who mailed from Gibraltar.

Postcard 2 - Inaccessible Island
Inaccessible Island of Tristan da Cunha is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Thanks to arrangement by Johnson of Hong Kong.

United Kingdom - The Flow Country

"The serial property, located in the Highland Region of Scotland, is considered the most outstanding example of an actively accumulating blanket bog landscape. This peatland ecosystem, which has been accumulating for the past 9,000 years, provides a diversity of habitats home to a distinct combination of bird species and displays a remarkable diversity of features not found anywhere else on Earth. Peatlands play an important role in storing carbon and the property’s ongoing peat-forming ecological processes continue to sequester carbon on a very large scale, representing a significant research and educational resource." 

Source: UNESCO World Heritage Sites

The Flow Country in Highland Region of Scotland, UK is a new UNESCO World Heritage inscribed in 2024. Thanks to Stella of Scotland, UK.

United Kingdom - Dorset and East Devon Coast

"The cliff exposures along the Dorset and East Devon coast provide an almost continuous sequence of rock formations spanning the Mesozoic Era, or some 185 million years of the earth's history. The area's important fossil sites and classic coastal geomorphologic features have contributed to the study of earth sciences for over 300 years." Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1 - East Devon
Sunset at East Devon Coast, England. Thanks to Tom of England, UK.

Postcard 2 - Dorset

The Jurassic Coast - Dorset: Old Harry Rocks, Burton Bradstock, Durdle Door, Golden Cap, Lulworth Cove, Eype. Thanks to Lucy of UK.

Postcard 3 - Dorset

St. Oswald Bay and the Dorset Coast. Nice flood rescue stamp. Thanks to Ellen of UK.

Postcard 4 - Jurassic Coast - Dorset

Multi-view of the Jurassic Coast - Dorset, United Kingdom. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site covers 95 miles of stunning coastline from Exmouth to Swanage representing 185 million years of Earth's history. Thanks to Van of Oregon, USA. Received in July 2023.

United Kingdom - New Lanark

"New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and the dignified educational institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism." 

Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1
Robert Owen's House and New Buildings of New Lanark. Thanks to Joana of Portugal.




Postcard 2
Aerial view of New Lanark with New Lanark postmark. Thanks to Jim of UK.

Postcard 3
New Lanark, Scotland is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Thanks to Stella of Scotland. Sent on April 26, 2022 and arrived on May 13, 2022.

Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom - The Great Spa Towns of Europe

"The transnational site of The Great Spa Towns of Europe comprises 11 towns, located in seven European countries: Baden bei Wien (Austria); Spa (Belgium); Františkovy Lázně (Czechia); Karlovy Vary (Czechia); Mariánské Lázně (Czechia); Vichy (France); Bad Ems (Germany); Baden-Baden (Germany); Bad Kissingen (Germany); Montecatini Terme (Italy); and City of Bath (United Kingdom). 

All of these towns developed around natural mineral water springs. They bear witness to the international European spa culture that developed from the early 18th century to the 1930s, leading to the emergence of grand international resorts that impacted urban typology around ensembles of spa buildings such as the kurhaus and kursaal (buildings and rooms dedicated to therapy), pump rooms, drinking halls, colonnades and galleries designed to harness the natural mineral water resources and to allow their practical use for bathing and drinking. Related facilities include gardens, assembly rooms, casinos, theatres, hotels and villas, as well as spa-specific support infrastructure. These ensembles are all integrated into an overall urban context that includes a carefully managed recreational and therapeutic environment in a picturesque landscape. Together, these sites embody the significant interchange of human values and developments in medicine, science and balneology."

Source: UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Postcard 1 - United Kingdom

Views of the Great Bath, the Circular Bath, the King's Bath. Card bought at Bath.

Postcard 2-1A  Germany - Baden Baden Multiview 1

Beautiful multi-view postcard of the German Spa town of Baden Baden. Thanks to YL for mailing from there.

Postcard 2-1B  Germany - Baden Baden Multiview 2

Thanks to Ing of New Zealand who visited Baden Baden. Mailed in May 2016.

Postcard 2-1C  Germany - Baden Baden Multiview 3

Postcard 2-1D  Germany - Baden Baden Multiview 4

Postcard 2-1E  Germany - Baden Baden Aerial view

Postcard 2-2 Germany - Bad Kissingen

Postcard 2-3 Germany - Bad Ems
Bad Ems was inscribed in 2021 as a UNESCO World Heritage site of the Great Spa Towns in Europe. Thanks to Marcel of Germany. Written on January 17, 2022 and received on February 15, 2022.

Postcard 3A - France - Vichy

Vichy - Opera house. Postmarked in Allier on June 23, 2010. Thanks to Jean-Pierre of France.

Postcard 3B - France - Vichy

Aerial view of the thermal spa city of Vichy, France. Nice mint postcard mailed inside envelope from France postmarked Oct 21, 2020 and received in Penang island on Nov 26, 2020. Thanks to Jean-Pierre of France.

Postcard 4 - Belgium - The Spa

The Spa. Thanks to Raquel of Belgium.

Postcard 5 - Italy - Montecatini Terme
The spa town of Montecatini Terme, Italy. Nice Italian stamp used. Thanks to Cristina of Italy.

Postcard 6 - Czechia - Mariánské Lázně
Mariánské Lázně is, in terms of area, one of the largest spa complexes in the Czech Republic. This spa town does not have a long history. It was established in the period of Classicism, early in the 19th century. Its creators changed an inhospitable valley into a charming park town with Classicist and Empire houses, gazebos, garden houses and colonnades. Thanks to Pavla of Czech Republic.

Postcard 7 - Czechia - Karlovy Vary
Multi-view of Karlovy Vary of Czech Republic (Czechia). It was inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site of Europe Spa Towns in 2021. Thanks to Suzanka of Czechia. Postcard was written on August 7, 2021 and received on October 27, 2021.

Postcard 8 - Austria - Baden bei Wien
Baden bei Wien of Austria is inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage site of European Spas in 2021. Thanks to Uli of Austria. Written in August 3 2021 and arrived in Penang island on September 8, 2021.

United Kingdom - The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales

"The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales illustrates the transformation that industrial slate quarrying and mining brought about in the traditional rural environment of the mountains and valleys of the Snowdon massif. The territory, extending from mountain-top to sea-coast, presented opportunities and constraints that were used and challenged by the large-scale industrial processes undertaken by landowners and capital investors, which reshaped the agricultural landscape into an industrial centre for slate production during the Industrial Revolution (1780-1914). The serial property comprises six components each encompassing relict quarries and mines, archaeological sites related to slate industrial processing, historical settlements, both living and relict, historic gardens and grand country houses, ports, harbours and quays, and railway and road systems illustrating the functional and social linkages of the relict slate industrial landscape. The property was internationally significant not only for the export of slates, but also for the export of technology and skilled workers from the 1780s to the early 20th century. It played a leading role in the field and constituted a model for other slate quarries in different parts of the world. It offers an important and remarkable example of interchange of materials, technology and human values."


Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Ffestiniog Railway in North Wales built in the 1830's for transporting slate from quarries at Blaeneau Ffestiniog to coast at Porthmadog for sea trnasport until the 1940's. Thanks to Kerstin of United Kingdom. Welsh themed stamps used.

United Kingdom - St Kilda

"This volcanic archipelago, with its spectacular landscapes, is situated off the coast of the Hebrides and comprises the islands of Hirta, Dun, Soay and Boreray. It has some of the highest cliffs in Europe, which have large colonies of rare and endangered species of birds, especially puffins and gannets. The archipelago, uninhabited since 1930, bears the evidence of more than 2,000 years of human occupation in the extreme conditions prevalent in the Hebrides. Human vestiges include built structures and field systems, the cleits and the traditional Highland stone houses. They feature the vulnerable remains of a subsistence economy based on the products of birds, agriculture and sheep farming." 

Source: UNESCO World Heritage

Postcard 1
Boreray and Stacs from across Loch a'Ghlinee, Hirta, St. Kilda. Thanks to Sara of Switzerland.

Postcard 2

The Village, St Kilda, Scotland. Thanks to Doris of Switzerland.

Postcard 3

Saint Kilda, located off Scotland was evacuated in 1930 and now not habited since. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Thanks to Patrick of Belgium for mailing from United Kingdom - postmarked 01-09-2020 and arrived in Penang island on September 11, 2020.