Yaaaay , an X-mas card !!!

hello people , here I'm again after quite a long break !! Christmas is just around the corner for most of us around here... I say this as we are officially the only Orthodox country who celebrates Christmas at the same day with the western world, while all other Orthodox countries are celebrating it at January 7 along with a sizeable minority here.... ok I cut the talk , and I go to the card ! It's the first Christmas card in years ( Cards from businesses and politicians to me as their dear customer of course are not to be counted), so it is a great feeling to receive a card from a dear person instead of e-cards or such !! This 3-D Christmas joy came from Belgium and my sweet buddy Andy ( and with a matching stamp too ).... thanks a lot dear and keep an eye on the mailbox :)  Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig Nieuwjaar ...No I don't speak Flemish , omniglot.com does , and as a matter of fact I hope it does correctly :D 

Taipei , Taiwan

After the X-mas card lets move on with the viewcards received !! This one is as you can see from Taiwan ( thank you Minnie ) and shows the Office of the President in Taipei .

The Presidential Office Building houses the Office of the President of the Republic of China. The building, located in the Zhongzheng District in the national capital of Taipei, Republic of China, was designed by architect Uheiji Nagano during the period of Japanese rule of Taiwan (1895–1945). The structure originally housed the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan. Damaged in Allied bombing during World War II, the building was restored after the war by Chen Yi, the Governor-General of the Taiwan province. It became the Presidential Office in 1950 after the Republic of China lost control of mainland China and relocated the nation's capital to Taipei City at the end of the Chinese Civil War. (Wikipedia )

Lake Toba , Indonesia

The last one for today came from Indonesia ( thank you Mina ). It is showing Lake Toba . In Indonesian ot is called Danau Toba and is a lake and a supervolcano ( Now don't ask me what is the difference between a supervolcano and a normal one I really don't have the faintest idea ) . It is located in the Northern part of Sumatra island. It is the largest lake in Indonesia and the largest volcanic lake in the world . It is the site of a supervolcanic eruption that occured sometime between 69.000 & 77.000 years ago . It is the largest known explosive eruption anywhere on Earth in the last 25 million years! (ahm !!!) According to the Toba catastrophe theory , it had global consequences , killing most humans then alive and creating a population bottleneck in Central Eastern Africa and India that affected the genetic inheritance of all humans today . This hypothesis is not very widely accepted due to lack of evidence of any other animal decline or extinction even in enviromentally sensitive species , however it has been accepted that the eruption led to a volcanic winter with a worldwide decline of temperatures between 3 to 5°C ! ...   By looking at the deep blue of the picture I would never have thought all this to be honest :)