From Picasa album Erin - Received Handmade cards

Great cover about Arctic Barents Race for dogsleds - if only would have had a matching stamp, instead of the lynx stamp...:)

Read from BBC: Lake Vostok drilling in Antarctic 'running out of time'. Also, see some "e-postcards" from Vostok Station, Antarctica.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wostok-Station_core32.jpg

I would love to receive some real postcards from Antarctica [from Vostok and all the other stations/research bases (28?)], written and stamped, preferably addressed to me, showing images like the above from wikipedia, my most favorite website. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GISP2_team_photo_core37.jpeg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LakeVostok-Location.jpg

"The lowest reliably measured temperature on Earth of −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) was in Vostok on 21 July 1983^[9] (See List of weather records) Lower temperatures occurred higher up towards the summit of the ice sheet as temperature decreases with height along the surface."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station

Read this very interesting article from BBC:

"With only about 50m left to drill, time is running out for the Russian scientists hoping to drill into Vostok - the world's most enigmatic lake.

Vostok is a sub-glacial lake in Antarctica, hidden some 4,000m (13,000ft) beneath the ice sheet.

With the Antarctic summer almost over, temperatures will soon begin to plummet; they can go as low as -80C.

Scientists will leave the remote base on 6 February, when conditions are still mild enough for a plane to land."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12275979

===============

In other news from Antarctica:

First woman that successfully ended the 7 Volcanoes Circuit. Romanian 16 years old Crina COCO Popescu is the youngest mountaineer worldwide and also the first woman that finishes the Volcanic 7 Summits Circuit - reaching the summits of the highest Volcanoes on 7 continents!

Read more

Coco in Antarctica: the long wait is over

After the success obtained on 4th of January, when Coco completed the ascension of Mt. Vinson – a new age record for Romania, it followed a range of days in waiting of the departure to the next objective: Mt. Sidley, the highest volcano in Antarctica.

Read more

COCO - the world’s youngest alpinist that climb Mt. Vinson (in Antarctica)

Crina Coco Popescu finished Tuesday, 4th of January 2011, the ascension of Mt. Vinson - the higher peak of Antarctica, in her most important expedition, ”Antarctica 2010 – 2011”.

Read more

Read more about this exceptional girl from Romania:

http://www.celmaisus.ro/?lang=en

==================

Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!

Please visit: http://thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com/

Read from AOLNews: "Argentine Woman Survives Fall From Hotel's 23rd Floor". Also, a personalized stamp about how life is.

http://www.zazzle.com/messi_stamp_misspelling_of_messy_postage-172267884447570079?rf=238693463283865848

Read from AOLNews: "Argentine Woman Survives Fall From Hotel's 23rd Floor". 

The 23rd floor...is that a tall story? Keyword: crash-landing.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/26/argentine-woman-survives-fall-from-hotels-23rd-floor/

Argentina, the land of Messi passion, and sometimes messy happenings.

This unfortunate suicidal woman filed her TAXI RETURN to life.

Location, location, and timing, too.

Curiosity did not kill the driver, who was intrigued about the policeman looking up.

Luck may not be up to you, but at least you can be alert. Observant of your surroundings and happenings.