Auntie L's Travels
Auntie L had a whole box full of postcards and photos of her travels around the
world during the 1920's. They had been glued into albums at some point (many have patches of black paper
stuck to edges on the back). For some reason, the postcards were removed from their albums and stored in
a cardboard box instead. Having travelled to Europe, I can relate to many of the images now and I am not
surprised that I developed a strong interest in travel. Auntie L's postcards show many exotic places
and people which were totally alien to someone growing up in Australia in the early 60's and so far removed from
European culture other than in my immediate family.
I am in the process of scanning the postcards/photos to add here and they will take some time to
do. They are purely a visual record and unfortunately are not written on the back so
working out exactly where each place is will be largely guesswork. The unidentified images will be placed together
roughly in 'country' categories as well as can be identified. If anyone recognises the place (town and/or
country) of any image incorrectly labelled or categorised, do let me know so I can amend the mistaken identity.
Switzerland, France, Egypt and Africa feature the most and they will be the four categories I
will start with. Looking at all the photos of Egypt, it is no wonder I had such a fascination with Egypt from a
very young age!
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