We are staying in Willemstad for a little while longer because the Willemstad Five-Euro coin was issued by KNM (Royal Dutch Mint) on February 2, 2023. Afterwards, the King and Queen and Princess Amalia visit the Leeward Islands: Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten from February 6...
After a two-year delay, the international philatelic exhibition Antverpia 2022 is finally being held. The reason for organizing this expo in 2020 was the 100th anniversary of the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. You can the dealers and the...
On January 1, 2022, the euro celebrates its twentieth anniversary. Officially, the birthday party already took place three years ago: on January 1, 1999, the euro was put into use by the financial markets. On January 1, 2002, it was the...
World Meteorological Day is held annually on March 23 and commemorates the founding of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The WMO is an umbrella meteorological organization of the United Nations, for cooperation in meteorology....
Every year on January 4th, it is 'World Braille Day'. Louis Braille, the inventor of the Braille script, was born on this day. The purpose of 'World Braille Day' is to annually highlight the importance and significance of Braille in the...
PostNL has fully utilized the '65 Years of Miffy' theme this year. Dick Bruna's Miffy is a popular theme both domestically and internationally. Especially in Japan, Miffy and her friends are collected in every way. In this blog, the...
During the Christmas period, one of the TV channels will surely broadcast the film The Sound of Music. How many times have you seen this film? And can you sing along to the songs: Maria, Edelweiss, Do-Re-Mi? The film premiered on March 2, 1965...
Much has been written in these blogs about Erwin Olaf and his stamps, so in this blog we will delve deeper into Erwin Olaf's relationship with the Royal Family. Besides being a royalty photographer for the Royal Family, he is...
The 106th Tour de France will be held from July 6 to 28, 2019. The whole of France is turning yellow, and not just because of the workers in the yellow vests. The following themes are central to this 2019 edition: 100 years of yellow...
It was in the southernmost city of the Netherlands, Maastricht, that the decision was made in 1992 to introduce a common European currency, the euro. It took until January 1999 for the euro to actually become visible in the form of the...
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