Out and about on June 21 and 22, 2025
On June 21st, the week with many road closures due to the NATO summit, national events are still being organized. If you would rather not walk in the scorching sun or get a tan on the beach, then this is your...
Experience nature
Garden exhibitions in various cities
Spring has arrived. We are heading back to our gardens. Whether our own garden or the allotment. Naturally, a visit to the garden centre is inevitable. In short, we are all back outdoors after a gloomy winter period. What does that all entail...
Experience Nature: Birds on Sint Eustatius
With this Beleef de Natuur series, the seventh year of this long-running serial issue begins; with these ten different stamps, it will now consist of 250 copies. Beleef de Natuur birds: issue date January 2, 2025 Issue details: typographic designer Frank Janse from Gouda,...
Typically Dutch – cats & Experience nature – flora Bonaire
The advantage of issuing two follow-up issues on the same day means that information regarding the stamp subject and the trio of designers for both series can be significantly condensed. Further information on this has already been provided in previous articles. Typically Dutch – cats The...
Experience nature – Bonaire’s underwater life: a tourist attraction
On Monday, June 10, the 3rd edition of the Nature of the Caribbean Netherlands, featuring the tropical island of Bonaire and its underwater life in the warm seawater, will be released. I look forward to this issue with great interest and wonder...
Defence Heritage Weekend on 20 and 21 April 2024
For centuries, forts, bunkers, fortifications, and lines ensured the defense of our country. Together, they form the defense heritage of the Netherlands. On April 20 and 21, 2024, hundreds of fascinating structures will be opened to the public. A brand-new event! From Den Helder to Maastricht...
Typically Dutch – dogs & Experience Nature – butterflies Bonaire
I also apply the increasingly streamlined PostNL efficiency drive in this article. Both long-running serial issues, *Beleef de Natuur* and *Typisch Nederlands*, are accompanied by press releases with every issue, featuring repetitions of information and text (NB: also the same...
Stamp sheets '300 years Joh. Enschedé' & 'Experience Nature – birds Bonaire'
Undoubtedly, Mr. Prins was not the first to discover that the images on the front and back of the 'Experience Nature – Birds Bonaire' stamp sheet from the Caribbean Netherlands do not correspond. He did, however, cause...
Birds of Bonaire in all shapes and sizes
The 'Experience Nature - Birds Bonaire' sheet prompts a comparison of previous stamps featuring Bonaire's 'birds' theme. How are these stamps designed, and which stamps do you find the best in terms of design? The old or the current stamps?...
Experience Nature – Birds Bonaire: Double Dutch Collecting
After six years of flora and fauna images from our own country on Beleef de Natuur issues, Frank Janse is turning his attention in 2024, 2025, and 2026 to the same nature subjects from the Caribbean Netherlands in a particularly colorful format. The Caribbean Netherlands includes the islands...
Experience Nature – Oisterwijk Forests and Fens + BdN list 2023
The final edition of the extra-long 'Experience Nature' issue, featuring no fewer than 240 different self-adhesive stamps, will conclude on August 14, 2023, with stamps 231 through 240. True to tradition, this issue also features similar duplicates. Of the ten...
Experience nature – De Wieden (Northern Overijssel)
The 'Experience Nature – De Wieden' issue focuses on the low moorland of the De Wieden nature reserve, located in the Kop van Overijssel, southwest of Steenwijk. This nature reserve is part of the 6.000-hectare Weerribben National Park...
Dutch Water Week: Experience watersports in the Amsterdam, Almere, and Lelystad region
The second edition of Dutch Water Week will take place from May 27 to June 4, 2023. This means that the beautiful surroundings of Amsterdam, Almere, and Lelystad will be dedicated to water sports for over a week...
Inventory of Beleef de Natuur stamp issues (2018 to 2022)
By now, twenty issues of the 'Experience Nature' series have already been issued in the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, comprising 200 differently numbered stamps. The clarity of these stamps is compromised by the sheer number and limited mutual diversity...
Experience Nature – Leuvenumse Bos (191st to 200th stamp)
Here is the fourth and final stamp sheet 'Experience Nature – Leuvenumse Bos' of the 2022 trio of nature stamp sheets. Next year, this nature stamp issue, which has already lasted five years and features the provinces of Friesland, Flevoland, North Brabant & Overijssel (201st to 240th stamp), will fortunately come to an end...
Experience Nature – Sint-Pietersberg marl landscape
On June 13, 2022, the 19th edition of the serial issue 'Experience Nature - Sint-Pietersberg Marl Landscape' (181st to 190th stamp) will be issued. Ten photographic images of flora and fauna have been placed on the stamp sheet using the collage technique, with multiple...
