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Christmas traditions: Lebkuchen and printen

Written in: Dutch • Randy Koo • 22 December 2021

Lebkuchen is a honey-sweetened German cake-shaped cookie or bar cookie that has become part of German Christmas traditions. It is similar to gingerbread. There is another story about Printen. Both are for sale in Germany at Christmas markets, but...

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Written in: Dutch • Jos van den Bosch • October 26, 2017

My wife is crazy about operas. Oh, I'm not averse to them either, mind you. She thinks Verdi is amazing. That's nice, but my favorite operas are Madame Butterfly and La Bohème, so Puccini. At a performance of The Butterfly, during...

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Willem Meerkerk over Self-adhesive or gummed, what do you collect?: I collect the annual collection of Dutch stamps. That automatically means that I collect gummed and self-adhesive stamps. The perforated…

Lars over Self-adhesive or gummed, what do you collect?: I collect both, though I prefer not to have mint self-adhesive ones. You never know how they will stand the test of time. Just look at the Nede…

Lars over Mouth-watering tart stamps with a sweet scent: One advantage of self-adhesive stamps is that people cannot tear off the perforations. Of the gummed stamps used, you can alti…

Rob over Chessboard on stamp sheet: @Elizadoug I always use the Google Translate app with the camera function myself.

Willem Meerkerk over Mouth-watering tart stamps with a sweet scent: I do see a trend in PostNL's new issues. More and more "self-adhesive" stamps, just like with the 2026 children's stamps. htt…