Personal Info:

Hi everyone! My name is Amelie. I am a person in her early 30's who lives in the West of Germany. I graduated from uni with a master's degree in hydrology in spring 2022. I currently work in a studies related field.

For relaxation I enjoy sending postcards to friends and family as well as to strangers. When sending mail I enjoy to decorate them with washi tape and stickers.

Besides postcards, I enjoy penpalling, collecting used stamps, exchanging friendship booklets and sheets, listening to music and reading as well as cooking and exploring new places. In my spare time I am learning Lithuanian and Korean. At the moment I am fluent in German and English and learned Latin in high school (due to translating from Latin to German, I only have an intermediate reading comprehension). Besides that I understand basic Spanish and Portuguese.

Besides swap-bot.com, I am a member of bookcrossing and postcrossing (Tera_Ecau on both sites).

• Klezmer
• Rock Music (f. e. The John Butler Trio, Santiano)
• World Music
• (Pagan) Folk (Faun, Melnitza)

In my spare time I enjoy reading. Mostly I fall for urban/light fantasy, thrillers and detective novels. Sometimes I happen to fall for books from other genres, too, but overall I prefer fiction books to non-fiction books.

These series currently are my favourites: - "The invisible Library" series by Genevieve Cogman - "Flavia de Luce" series by Alan Bradley - thrillers by Monika Feth - "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

A: animals (almost all species), autumn

B: blue (colour), beaches, books

C: cats, chocolate, castles, cooking

D: daydreaming, doodling, donkeys, Diddl sheets

E: eagles

F: flower patterns, forests

G:

H: herbal tea, handball, hiking

I: icecream

J:

K: Klezmer music

L: landscapes, lighthouses

M: music

N: Northern lights

O: ocean

P: postcards, penpalling

Q:

R: recipes, reading

S: stamps (used), sunshine, succulents, spring, stickers

T: travelling

U:

V:

W: washi tape

X:

Y: yellow (colour)

Z:

Likes

Postcards (written & stamped preferred)

• viewcards (either city views or landscape)
• religious buildings of any type
• lighthouses
• vintage travel posters (f. e. by Lantern Press)
• map cards
• sailing ships
• cards in polaroid style
• riddle cards like Lali or 'Where's Waldo?'

Stamps

• lighthouses
• castles
• landscape/scenery
• Europa stamps
• Lunar New Year stamps

Though, I appreciate any other type of stamp, too. :) I just prefer them used, though.

I am NOT into anything too political or religious messages in postcards or similar mail.

Pass along items, I swap: bags (mostly x-slips, labels, stamp, stickers); traveling sticker cards, sticker books, (sticker) slams. If possible, no FB's or FS's. I will pass them on, but overall am not fond of swapping these anymore (07/2025).

Dislikes

Tea: fruit tea, (artificially) flavoured tea (I just prefer it "natural")

A few random things: - pictures/photos by Anne Geddes (and similar); - any sort of discrimination; - the flavours of coffee and liquorice