Students are not only escorted to postcard-ready spots, but are taught how to take postcard-perfect shots.
When we took postcards [to be posted] we went out of the house, through the back entrance, and took a car to avoid them".
She would take the postcard to the post office to be hand-stamped and leave it with the clerk.
Hamsun knew that people regarded him as a traitor — he was shunned when he asked a boy to take a postcard to the mailbox.
"Then of course, we got around to Joanna, and we were both very thankful that she didn't just take that postcard and throw it in the wastebasket.
The seaside setting on which Dalí lays out his soft watches is not a fantasy but is immediately recognisable if you take a postcard of this painting to Cadaqués in Catalonia.
In 1986, he went to Japan to work for a magazine and took his postcard with him.
And I also took a postcard image of a photograph Giles took on a trip to Bangladesh a few years ago.
"We'll put in some small restaurants, a bar! We'll take pictures and make postcards!
But when he allows himself to take in the postcard vistas, Messner proves that he's not incapable of satisfying the armchair explorer.
This is the time to slow down, take in the postcard views and spend time exploring an area of uncompromised beauty.
