Thursday Postcard Hunt | Gardens

Meise Botanic Garden (Belgium). Postcard sent by Anick.

Postcard sent by Eeyoreinoz (Australia).

Rear view of Het Loo Palace with the King's Fountain (Apeldoorn). Sent by Freddy (the Netherlands).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
May theme: PARKS AND GARDENS

• Week 1 - National Parks
• Week 2 - Public Gardens
• Week 3 - Beaches
• Week 4 - Forests

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Winter Collage

Front and back of a collage made by Fabienne (France). Perfect theme for these days!

In case you want to see better the snowy stamps from different countries that she used on the front part:

The snowflakes (all different, of course!);

And the stamps on the back, on the same topic:

Why Do Not Postal Services Realise How Dull These Labels Are?

Three more examples provided by Bryon. From Belgium, Serbia and China to the USA:

Sunday Stamps | N Is for Nèvejean

Yvonne Nèvejean (1900 – 1987) was one of the leaders of an organisation that helped hide Jewish children in Nazi-occupied Belgium during World War II. She was instrumental in hiding about 4000 children. After the war she was honoured inside and outside Belgium, and in 1996 this stamp was issued.

See more N-stamps on today's Sunday Stamps post.

Sunday Stamps | Kings

Hugh Capet was the King of the Franks from 987 to 996. He is the founder of and first king from the House of Capet. The dynasty he founded ruled France for nearly nine centuries: from 987 to 1328 in the senior line, and until 1848 via cadet branches (with an interruption from 1792 to 1814 and briefly in 1815).

Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa (حمد بن عيسى بن سلمان آل خليفة) is King of Bahrain since 14 February 2002, after ruling as Emir of Bahrain from 6 March 1999.The country has been ruled by the Al Khalifa dynasty since 1783.

Felipe VI is the current King of Spain. He ascended the throne on 19 June 2014 upon the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos I. This stamp was issued in 2015, but it is not frequently used, because its high face value (5€). It is supposed to be equipped with Augmented Reality, which links to a video of the king.

Below, more from the "basic series", issued in 2016 and in 2020, for you to look at the differences. (The image on the second stamp taken from here, as I do not have the stamp):

Phillippe of Belgium is King of the Belgians since 2013.

Charles III is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms since 8 September 2022.

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more Royalty related stamps .

Postbox Saturday | Bruges

A picture taken in 2018 in Bruges (Belgium).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Mills

This is a postcard from Bruges and I love it. Not only because I have received it twice, firstly from my friend Laura and later through the Postcrossing site. But also because I have actually visited the place, and sent this very scenery myself.

Below, some more mills (a favourite topic) on stamps, sent by Heleen from the Netherlands:

Update: 22 February 2023

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Thursday Postcard Hunt

February theme: BUILDINGS

• Week 1 - Lighthouses
• Week 2 - Windmills
• Week 3 - Public buildings
• Week 4 - Houses
• Week 5 - Temples, churches

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Greetings from...

Greetings from Ghent (Belgium)

Greetings from Seattle (the USA)

Greetings from Columbus (Ohio, USA)

Greetings from La Martinique

(Actually received from France)

Sent by Bryon and Phillip (the USA), Tanja (Belgium) and Fabienne (France).

Geometry of Nature

These stamps belongs to the fascinating series Geometry of Nature: Circles, issued by Belgian post in 2021.

But the series had started in 2018, each year dedicated to a different shape: Spirals (2018), Stars (2019), Pentagon (2020), Circles (2021), Hexagon (2022)... (I do not know if it is to continue this year).

Confusing Halloween

And a postcard I got from Heleen soon after Halloween 2022. Sent from Belgium, although the meet-up was in the Netherlands:

And another one from a meet-up in Belgium... But the postcard travelled first to the Netherlands, then to my country!

This one came with a wonderful (favourite!) stamp on the back:

Sunday Stamps | Peace

I have got the EUROPA 2023 Peace Stamp from several countries. It is a pleasure that it keeps arriving. This time, from Finland, Czech Republic and the Netherlands.

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!

The envelope sent from Franc (the Netherlands) contained a lot more of stamps on the same topic: Peace. A beautiful gift!

And this is also a post for Sunday Stamps, dedicated today to EUROPA Stamps.