Austria

Cologne Cathedral

Written in: Dutch • Cees Janssen • July 24, 2021

The largest Gothic cathedral in Germany is located in Cologne. The building with the two tall towers stands as an enormous eye-catcher in the city center, approximately 250 meters from the River Rhine. With the construction...

Legends from Austria

Written in: Dutch • Yvonne Kruse • November 13 2020

It is a beautiful little book: 'Sagenhaftes Österreich', containing a sheet of stamps featuring some of the main characters that appear in the book: Basilisks, Venetian Men, Nixe, Der liebe Augustin, 'Wilde Vrouwen' ('White Women'), Waterman, Dwarf, and Dragon. Twenty-three famous stories retold...

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…

Haas over New Priority Mourning Stamp Netherlands: Unusual: new rates taking effect on a Sunday. PostNL faces a challenge. With priority, it is guaranteed that the next working day (Mon…

Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: Are there any online references to the translation of the different stamps? I've been looking around and am not having much luck.

Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: I bought one to frame as a gift to my father. And it was semi-difficult to find, but not too terribly expensive.

John Petterson over Drones, Drones on Drones: Nice article! It has inspired me to start collecting drones on stamps as well.

Otto over 2026 FIFA World Cup: Canada, Mexico and USA: The 2026 World Cup unfortunately turned out disastrously for our World Cup team; the beautiful stamps above are a balm for the wound for the football…