Showing posts with label Aruba. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aruba. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Aruba :)

I was really happy to receive this card from Aruba as a thank-you for my official :) Well, actually I think it's not fair to ask postcrossers from "rare" countries to send you a card just because you sent them an official, because then you receive twice more cards... But I'm not like that :) I just offered a swap, so I also sent 2nd card. I think it's OK then.

Aruba is a 33-kilometre (21 mi)-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, 27 km (17 mi) north of the Paraguaná Peninsula, Falcón State, Venezuela. A country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Aruba has no administrative subdivisions. Unlike much of the Caribbean region, Aruba has a dry climate and an arid, cactus-strewn landscape. This climate has helped tourism as visitors to the island can reliably expect warm sunny weather. It has a land area of 193 km2 (75 sq mi) and lies outside the hurricane belt.

I think that being outside the hurricane belt is especially important ;)