Hello again, here's a few cards for this time. My first is from Ghent. This is a city in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It has a population of just over 260,000 . For all you foodies out there be advised that Ghent has the world's largest number of vegetarian restaurants in the world. Ana's card shows a very tranquil scene along the city's waterfront.
Ana recently visited Belgium and took time to send along this card. She used a number of stamps all of which were issued a few years ago. The top left stamp is from 2007 and celebrates the Tour de France. The other 2 stamps along the top are from a set of 10 issued in 2002. They are a Tourism set and feature Belgium Castles. The last stamp, the vertical one , is from a set of 10 issued in 2003 called This Is Belgium.
Merry everything. A late arriving Christmas wish card from Barbara in the Netherlands. The card was designed by Sanny van Loon, a graphic designer and illustrator in Amsterdam.
Barbara used 2 Christmas stamps that were issued in November. A total of 11 different Christmas stamps made up the issue. Like the postcard, Ms van Loon designed the stamps, too.
A Dog's Life - a yawning puppy on a bookshelf. Who wouldn't yawn over those heavy books - Money by Zola, Origin of Species by Darwin and The Complete Works of Shakespeare ? Who said reading was this hard ? I'm tired just thinking about those books.
A Postcrosser named Raymonda used a fine selection of stamps on this card, as you can see below.
My next card , an aircraft related card , is a welcome addition to my Aircraft / Airline Postcard Collection. I guess you could say it shows two means of transport - one fast and one not so.
Dominique sent this card along and filled it with great wishes for 2019 for me and my family. The postage is preprinted on this card and is an exact duplicate of the picture on the card.
I think that's it for today. A little shorter than my usual but that's how it goes sometimes. Thanks for cards today going out to Barbara, Raymonda , Ana and Dominique . Take care .
2 comments:
Pity all these Belgian cards ended without a cancellation
Ana,
I guess Belgium is just another country in the long list of countries where this happens. No cancellation , to me, is worse than a pen cancel or crayon cancel, and I hate those too. But again they are better than nothing. I read an article a short time ago that either Australia or New Zealand experimented with a program that allowed mail to move without any cancellations to increase efficiency and if it worked out , that would be the way they would go. I'm not sure what the results were. I always wonder who comes up with these lame brain ideas.
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