Staycation

Now that people are travelling less often, staycation postcards have become a thing...

Guadalest (Alacant, Spain)
Received from the Netherlands

Torre de la Horadada (Alacant, Spain)
Received from the Netherlands

Retro postcard of Balatonfenyves (Hungary)

'Eeh, these bank holidays... they're a real problem to decide.'
From A Grand Day Out

Sun Street, Canterbury (UK)

Reading?

'It's no use. We'll have to let out the spare room'
From The Wrong Trousers, 1993

The sender, John (the UK), was not sure if reading a bill counts as a reading postcard.

Feinschmecker, by Emilia Dziubak

Nor am I if this postcard sent by Heleen (the Netherlands) can fit in with the reading category. No doubt that the little fellow is a book lover, though.

Bout en Moertje, by Nicole de Cock

The reading theme is clearer on this one, also sent by Heleen. But I didn't realise the mouse at first!

Christmas Stamps

The theme for this week in Sunday Stamps is Christmas or holiday stamps. I didn't search a lot, I want just to share some of the Christmas stamps I received last year or two years ago. I find fascinating by how different countries adapt this theme, introducing their own traditions.

From Belgium

From Canada

From Finland

From the Netherlands

I like specially this stamp from the Netherlands. Without forgetting the religious aspect of Christmas, it focuses in other important aspect: children and the magic of Christmas for them. 

From the Netherlands

The stamps below are most winter than Christmas...

From the Netherlands

From the Netherlands

From Norway

From Poland

From Spain

From Spain

There are always two Christmas stamps in Spain: one with the Spain rate and one for Europe. In the last years, the designs usually are inspired in maternity. The two stamps showed date from 2010 and 2009, and they are for letters within the country. The Christmas series is the only one who is written in the four official languages in Spain (one stamp a year!). It says Happy Christmas in Spanish (Feliz Navidad), in Catalan (Bon Nadal), in Galician (Bo Nadal) and in Basque (Egubelarri Zorontosuak).

From the UK

From the UK

From the USA