Postal Guest - Raquel

Hola mis amigos

Today I bring to you a new Guest, Raquel from Stockholm. She has a wonderful nail art, ( which made hard for me the task of choosing the pics for this post...haha) And I hope you can get inspired from her too :)

1-Talk a little about yourself ( or name,who are you, where you live, what you do etc)

My name is Raquel and my Instagram name is marionbcn. I am originally from Barcelona in Spain, and moved to Sweden back in 2007, I live in the capital of Sweden, Stockholm. I am 36 years old, born august 1978, and im married to kenneth whom  I have been together for 8 years now.

I work as a front desk agent in a boutique hotel in Stockholm. I have a lovely 6 years old kitty named Juno, and I love to go swimming.

Had to put a pic of Juno because, look at this cutie,such a model *--*

 2-when, and how you got into snail mail?

I started writing my first letters back in 1988, my first penpal was a danish girl I met on a holiday in a camping in a town called Palamós in the Costa Brava in Spain. The next summer I met some spanish girls at the same camping and they also became my penpals, you know, back then the internet didnt exist so we could not email eachother!

In 1992 I started looking for penpals actively thru music magazines such as super pop, smash hits or Kerrang!, soon I had about 10 regular penpals who i wrote to in catalan ( my mother tongue), spanish or english. I also strated swapping Fb's (friendship books) and met a bunch of foreign penpals that way.

After FB'S i also started swapping Slams and Decos.

There's few girls and a guy I have been writting with for nearly 20 years, and have met a lot of my penpals in real life during trips, or just had them over visiting. Always had awesome experiences meeting my penpals.

3- what you enjoy the most about snail mail and what you dislike the most?

The real frienship that you develope with your penpals is one of the best things about penpalling, listening and being listened.

What I dislike the most if when people stop writting without even letting you know that they are just gonna drop you off.

4- would you change or improve something in your country’s postal service?

I am very happy with the swedish postal system thank you! the only thing I'd change is the price, its ridiculosuly expensive, but yet again everything is very expensive in Sweden.

5- could you tell one of the most memorable or special things you received so far?

Just lovely chatty letters from my pals are the best things to get really.

6 -can you describe in one word the feeling of receiving mail?

Happiness!

Thanks Raquel for share a little about yourself with us :)

Mucho Amor

Vi