From Faraway with Love – Sending Postcards Home

These days to have something else than junk mail in our mailbox feels like a miracle. And by box, I mean the real physical one that sits outside among the row of boxes next to the parking lot. On these rare occasions I first get excited, if it’s not an official looking letter that in most cases hides a bill or invitation to the dentist or doctor.

Then comes the inspiration. “I could do this too”. If the piece in question is a thank you card or postcard, it ends up on the fridge door dangling by a weak magnet, until it gets pulled down and possibly scribbled on by one of our little ones.

Finally, the reality hits me. We did not send any postcards from any of our travels, which have been many, in the last uncountable years. Thank you cards are still waiting to be finished when it comes to the presents we got when the kids were born. And our wedding… was it seven years ago? Those thank you cards, well, I have a great idea for them but we did not send any, yet.

It was kind of miracle then, that I was so excited to send postcards from New Zealand that one even ended up in our empty home, to wait for our return.

For this, I have a fellow Finnish blogger Satu from Salamatkustaja (her blog is in Finnish only) to thank for, for introducing me to Touchnote. You can either download it as an app, or use the web-version. I’ve tried both, but for me this was the opportunity to give my Instagram images life outside the virtual world.

It is dangerously easy to use, affordable (depending on how many credits you buy, printing & sending a card costs roughly €1,60) and you don’t have to look for postboxes or wonder where to buy stamps. And the best bit naturally is that you get to choose how your holiday looks like, printed on a postcard.

Anyone else a Touchnote fan here, or do you have other tips for what to do with you Instagram images or holiday photos? I think the next challenge for me is to create a book of my images, project which I have been planning, well, a while….

On the Instagram Travel Thursday front I am super happy to welcome the Italians to come on board too! Last week the campaign started in the German speaking travel blogging world, and this week Italians follow suit with @thefamilycompany, @viaggideirospi and @francydipi leading the way.

I’m part of the team co-hosting the Instagram Travel Thursday, an initiative started with Skimbaco Lifestyle online magazine to connect travel and Instagram enthusiasts across borders and I would love if you joined us! Read the guidelines on Skimbaco’s site and you too can now host this link-up in your own blog. You can get the code to add to your blog here. Once you are ready with your own post, please add it to the Linky in the bottom of the page and check out some of the other participating bloggers! In Instagram you can find me at @todestinationunknown.