Curacao - Architecture

Curacao

Foto: Astrid Aberson-Kwanton
2015

The sender writes:
I was just in Curacao to visit a friend who lives there.  It is nice to be there, always 30 degrees c (86 f) and a little wind to cool you.  

Curacao - Heeren Straat

Heeren Straat.
Curacao, Dutch West Indies
1912

This is all still there, only painted in different colors and it is all stores.  So there are a lot more signs hanging into the walk way.

Curacao - Entrance of Harbour

Curacao West Indies, Entrance of Harbour
1928

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Curaçao is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast.
The Country of Curaçao, which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao ("Little Curaçao"), is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Curaçao is the largest and most populous of the three ABC islands (for Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) of the Lesser Antilles, specifically the Leeward Antilles. It has a land area of 444 square kilometres (171 square miles). As of 1 January 2009, it had a population of 141,766.

Curacao - Country Road, Man Riding a Donkey

Country Road, Curacao,  N.W.I.
(Camino Campestre)
1942

There are two hand stamps on the back, one is 'Examined by' (6425 is handwritten after that) the other is that it passed the Curacao Censor (this card was sent during World War II)