Mail Adventures: Austria

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30 July 2026

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Guesthouse

Krumpmühle Gasthof in Ybbsitz. Postcard sent by Andreas (Austria).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
July theme: ARCHITECTURE

Week 1 - Churches
Week 2 - Houses
Week 3 - Palaces
Week 4 - Stations
Week 5 - Shelters

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

20 May 2026

Thoughtful Choice

Sometimes I am surprised by postcrossers. Someone from Austria chose this 2008 stamp for me, commemorating Spain winning the UEFA European Football Championship that year. I am not into football, but I think it was very thoughtful from the sender.

Spanish stamps are not allowed to feature living people (except the royal family), so I find it curious to see Iker Casillas on a stamp.

Plus, the stamp is (almost) written in Spanish.

21 February 2026

Official & Unofficial Mail Labels

Austria

Finland

Netherlands

United Kingdom

United States of America

01 February 2026

Sunday Stamps | A Is for Abstract

France, 1981

Alléluia, by French painter Alfred Manessier (1965).

Austria, 2023

75th birthday of Hans Kupelwieser

The stamp motif shows an untitled relief made in 2020, anodised aluminium, 170 by 180 by 30 centimetres.

Portugal, 2025

Burning in the Forbidden Sea, by Rui Chafes

USA, 2013

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, by Marcel Duchamp (1912)

A new A-Z starts in Sunday Stamps. Go to see more A related stamps!

17 October 2024

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Vineyards

I think I love vineyards as much as wine...

Walla Walla, Washington (the USA)

Lower Austria (Austria)
Wo die wahren Schätze kostbar sind
'Where the real treasures are precious'

Toscana (Italy)

Postcards sent by Julia (Austria), Bryon (the USA) and Bruno (Italy).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
October theme: FOOD/DRINKS

Week 1 - Fruits, vegetables
Week 2 - Sweets, desserts
Week 3 - Wine, beer, tea, coffee
Week 4 - Multiples, multiviews
Week 5 - Markets, cafés

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

23 January 2024

Typewriters Are the Very Best

Der schönste Moment beim Schreiben:

wenn sich die Dinge plötzlich fügen.

Susann Pásztor

('The best moment while writing:

when things suddenly fall into place.')

Even een paar vriendinnen gebeld

en dan zo'n hoge telefoonrekening?

('Just called a few friends

and then got such a high telephone bill?')

From Betinna (Austria) and Heleen (The Netherlands).

09 January 2024

European Capitals (Postcrossing)

Vienna (Austria)

I got this postcard from Vienna last November, through the Postcrossing site. I like to read postcrossers profiles and know about their preferences. Sometimes people are quite specific, and funny. There are also some people who are not, but they ask for postcards like "a view from the capital city of your country".

Browsing among my received postcards, I have found that getting postcards from the capital cities is not as common as you might think. Maybe is just that I do not ask for them. But these are almost all the European capitals I have got as Postcrossing postcards.

I think it is curious that I have never received postcards featuring Berlin, Lisboa, Madrid...

Zagreb (Croatia)

Tallinn (Estonia)

Helsinki (Finland)

Rome (Italy)

Riga (Latvia)

Vilnius (Lithuania)

Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

Warsaw (Poland)

Bratislava (Slovakia)

05 July 2023

Visited Lighthouses

Some lighthouses I have got this month. I have visited all these (years ago)!

The lighthouse of Biarritz (EH), however sent from Austria by Elli.

A self-made card (out of a calendar) depicting the lighthouse of Perros-Guirrec. Sent by Fabienne (France) with wonderful vintage stamps. Among them, another lighthouse!

Lighthouse of Cabo Mayor, sent by Bruno (Spain).

25 June 2023

Sunday Stamps | Traditional Accessories

In 2020 PostAG (Austrian Postal Service) started a series of Traditional Costumes - Accessories that I believe is still ongoing. I got the first two stamp, featuring the Wheel Bonnet from Bodensee (above) and the Astrachan Cap from Seewinke (below).

This is a post for Sunday Stamps, today's theme being Hats / Helmets / Headgear.

08 June 2023

More Peace!

This year there is not EUROPA stamp contest, because all the participant countries are issuing a stamp with the same design, dedicated to Peace - the highest value of humanity.

I thought it would be nice to get the stamp from as many countries as possible. So I arranged some swaps that are ongoing. I got these three stamps last week. And the day before yesterday, more Peace stamps arrived: from Austria (again), Germany, Latvia and Romania. But there are still a lot of missing countries in my collection-to-be.

If you wish to swap this stamp (or swap it for a postcard, envelope, etc.), just let me know!

05 June 2023

Peace Stamp Project

This year there is not EUROPA stamp contest, because all the participant countries are issuing a stamp with the same design, dedicated to Peace - the highest value of humanity.

I thought it would be nice to get the stamp from as many countries as possible. So I arranged some swaps that are ongoing. So far, I have got the stamps from Austria, Ireland and Switzerland.

But there are still a lot of missing countries in my collection-to-be.

If you wish to swap this stamp (or swap it for a postcard, envelope, etc.), just let me know!