Hanami in Leiden on March 23, 2025
It is spring! It is hanami time! In Japan, people head out during this period to admire the beauty of the sakura, the cherry blossoms, together while enjoying delicious food and drinks. They call this Hanami....
World Exhibition
State visit to Belgium with the theme of cross-border cooperation
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will pay a state visit to Belgium from Tuesday, June 20 to Thursday, June 22. Various ministers are traveling with them for parts of the state visit. Themes: economic cooperation, security, and climate change. This also includes the approach to...
Father's Day: a day of commerce
Father's Day is celebrated on June 19, 2022. Every year, this day falls on the third Sunday of June. What is the significance of Father's Day? When did Father's Day originate? And have stamps been issued for this day? Do you, as a father...
Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: no Dutch Tokyo 2020 stamps
PostNL has had 8 years to release Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games stamps in 2021. It is a mystery to me and other collectors why this edition of the Games would not be stamp-worthy. Consider the...
Rubens, a painter of noble birth
Born on June 28, 1577, in Siegen, Germany, Peter Paul Rubens came to live in Antwerp as a 13-year-old boy, where, eight years later, in 1598, he was admitted to the Guild of Saint Luke as a master painter. He was in the apprentice...
The Atomium in Brussels
What the Eiffel Tower is to Paris, the Atomium is to Brussels. And both structures share roughly the same history. Built for a world exhibition and intended to be dismantled afterwards. Images of the Eiffel Tower appear worldwide...
PEXIP 1937 in Paris
With a delay of more than a month, the great World's Fair (Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne) opened on May 25, 1937, in and around the Palais de Chaillot, on the other side of the...
American Mail discovered Columbus (part 1)
Christopher Columbus discovered 'America' in October 1492. The American Post discovered in 1892 that his discovery had involved a great deal of money. But that Columbus's discovery could also bring in a great deal of money for the coffers of the American Postal Service....
