I am wondering if you have met any Postcrossers from a different country in person?
Personally, I have met a Postcrosser from Belarus and Russia visiting my city in Japan. I could show a bit of my city and another neighbouring city for a Postcrosser from Belarus, but as for a Postcrosser from Russia, she was busy all day, so we could only talk for about two hours at a cafe and on the street in the evening.
I have met Postcrossers from The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Greece, UK, Norway, Austria, Italy, Ireland… probably more. I love attending International meet-ups
Well you can go to meetups evetywhere. When a few people from different countries come its an international meetup.
When I was in London all was easy because the language Spoken was english. When I was in Portugal of course portuguese was spoken but everyone switched to english when someone was around who didn’t know the language.
In the netherlands I had conversations where someone spoke Dutch and I spoke German and we could understand each other quite well.
So in my experience if you don’t know the main language spoken you can get along with english just fine
I attended an international meetup in Helsinki - I met postcrossers from Finland (of course), Germany, Switzerland, Paulo and Ana were there too
I met a postcrosser from Russia when she visited Kraków and met with a postcrosser from Canada when I went there, and also met postcrossers from Japan and Greece when we attended meetings in Kraków together.
I’ve been to meetups in Norway (Oslo), Japan (Osaka), and Taiwan (Taichung) where I met other Postcrossers in person. It was really fun! I always wish I had more time. I’d like to travel specifically for a meetup someday.
The only Postcrossers I met are from other countries!
It started in Lithuania, where a student introduced me to Postcrossing. Then, I went to a meet-up in Vilnius, where I met other Lithuanian postcrossers, and also one from Russia and one from Belarus.
Then, in Paris, I met @wandafan (we took a tour of Paris, which was great fun, and bought some stamps and got wonderful First Day Cover wonderful First Day Cover ) and @TwasBrillig (to whom I gave the postcard and stamp she won in my lottery and visited a great exhibition in the Musée de l’Homme).
A few months ago, in Cairo, I had the great good fortune to meet @ranimayman, who continues to send postcards despite the many complications she has to deal with to pursue this hobby; a real role model for me! We organized a wonderful meetup altogether with @TwasBrillig, with whom I visited the Museum of Islamic Art, Mokkattam and Manshiyat Nasser in Cairo.
So I can definitely say that I met wonderful people thanks to Postcrossing, and I am so grateful both to Postcrossing (@Paulo and @meiadeleite of course) and to these great people for that!
Yes, I met a couple from Belgium (the husband is postcrosser), two sisters from Czechs (one of them is postcrosser), 2 friends from Belgium (both are postcrossers), a couple from Germany (the wife is postcrosser), a postcrosser from Singapore, few postcrossers from Jakarta and hopefully soon I will meet 1 postcrosser from Jakarta and 2 from Hongkong
I’m glad that I live in Bali, a very popular holiday destination, and I’m glad that through postcrossing I can meet lots of new friends
Looking forward to meet more and more postcrossers in the future
Yes! One Postcrosser asked me for a direct swap some months ago and when I visited Belgrade last month I said hi at her working place (She told me where she was working and invited me to come over )
Yes!
I hosted 3 meetups in Greece during the Summer of 2022, and attended a meetup in London in June 2023. It was wonderful to meet Postcrossers from other countries and I enjoyed speaking with each of them!