Today (May 12, 2024) is the last day of the International Viking Festival at Archeon Museum Park. If you live near Alphen aan den Rijn, visit the Viking encampment and browse the market stalls. The Viking festival...
Christmas is celebrated in different ways around the world. The differences relate to historical Christmas figures, food and drink, and additional holidays. The celebrations in the Scandinavian countries are impressive. Combined with the cold temperatures, this creates a...
We are all in a partial lockdown during the second wave since October 2020. I will easily reach the 50th edition of the corona blog, given the diverse angles of COVID-19 and the tsunami of COVID-19 issuances worldwide. The experiences...
The new herring has arrived. Not from our coast, but from Skagen in Denmark. The first barrel of herring was auctioned for the staggering sum of €95.500. This money goes to Claudia de Breij's 'Mag Ik Dan Bij Jou' foundation.
The balance could be struck because the 100th Åland stamp was issued in 1995. An average of 10 stamps per year was quite acceptable. But would that remain the case now that Åland Posten had become independent? In any case, there were Europa stamps again...
'Santa Claus is a spiritual pickpocket,' Godfried Bomans once said during a visit to Canada, dressed as Sinterklaas. Santa Claus, who originated in the United States, is a corruption of St. Nicholas that was brought along by the Dutch colonists to...
In the issuance program for the year 1991, the first block to be issued by Åland was announced, specifically for the Islands Games. Was this the beginning of an expansion in the number of issues? The privatization of the postal service...
The 1989 series of orchids was considered by many thematic stamp collectors to be one of the most beautiful Scandinavian stamps issued that year. What would the Finnish postal service have in store for the Åland Islands for 1989? The issuance program indicated...
The issue of a series of three stamps on October 8, 1966, dedicated to Antarctic expeditions, also included a small block. The stamp in this block depicted a ship with a name that definitely did not remind me of Belgium...
The first Finnish stamp I was confronted with as a 10-year-old, just beginning stamp collector, was on a first-day cover I received from my father. And in the geography class I had in primary school, Scandinavia was one of...
Few stamp collectors are aware of the existence of the first stamp booklet issued by the postal administration of the Faroe Islands. This is not surprising, as it was a very simple booklet indeed. Many collectors of Scandinavian stamps know this...
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