The fine art of writing a travel postcard: where did it go? by Jina Bacarr #BoldDestinations

July 11, 2023 by marianne h donley in category Jina’s Book Chat, Writing tagged as Berlin, BoldDestinations, Paris, postcard, Travel with 0 and 0

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Imagine receiving a handwritten postcard from Paris in 1940. Intrigue, romance and spies Paris is my #BoldDestinations for this summer’s celebration of places where we set our books like The Orphans of Berlin about the Kindertransport from Berlin to Paris @bookandtonic #booktok
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Summer travel means waiting in airports or to catch a ferry across the channel… or waiting in a busy train station. Plenty of time to write a quick postcard and send it home.

No, wait. Send a selfie back home on your phone with a quick text. Fast, fun, but will it end up in a box of memories?

Or deleted?

The memory lost…

Yes, times have changed. We still waiti n airports or train stations, but the fine art of writing a travel postcard someone will cherish are gone. That personal touch of scrawled handwriting… a quick moment in time captured forever, a tangible memory of a card sent from Paris with the distnictive handwriting we know so well…

Remember when you got a travel postcard from a faraway place? It was like magic

Imagine receiving a handwritten postcard from Paris in 1940. Intrigue, romance, and spies…

Paris is my #BoldDestinations for this summer’s celebration of places where we set our books like The Orphans of Berlin and the Kindertransport from Berlin to Paris.

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Jina Bacarr

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I discovered early on that I inherited the gift of the gab from my large Irish family when I penned a story about a princess who ran away to Paris with her pet turtle Lulu. I was twelve. I grew up listening to their wild, outlandish tales and it was those early years of storytelling that led to my love of history and traveling. I enjoy writing to classical music with a hot cup of java by my side. I adore dark chocolate truffles, vintage anything, the smell of bread baking and rainy days in museums. I’ve always loved walking through history—from Pompeii to Verdun to Old Paris. The voices of the past speak to me through carriages with cracked leather seats, stiff ivory-colored crinolines, and worn satin slippers. I’ve always wondered what it was like to walk in those slippers when they were new.

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