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| 2016: Maximum Card 109 "Red barn" |
Time to take a walk in the countryside
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| 2016: Finnish Barns (Design - Satu Lusa) |
and there will be barns of all shapes and sizes.
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| 1990: Centenary Rural Postal Service and Rural Address Reform (Design - P Huovinen) |
Perhaps postie will pass by on his delivery round. The stamp shows a rural postman on a country lane with the village of Larsmo and its church in the background. The address and number sign are written according to the reformed system.
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| 1990: Europa - Post Office Buildings (Design - Bardur Jakupsson) |
Lets call into a post office, in particular the old post office at Gjógv in the Faroe Islands, which is a private home but opens as a post office 5 days a week for 30 minuets each morning and afternoon. You will be able to spot the road on this stamp however it is always pleasant to walk by water.
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| 1996: Landscapes (Design - Heinz Schillinger) |
The stamp on the left features the Saale River where one might also prefer to cycle beside it on part of the path from Bavaria to Saxony (400k/250 miles). The website eulogies it as passing through 'beautiful nature, majestic castles and enchanted forests'. In fact this German series of stamps could almost be called - 'are you wondering where to go on holiday'! The stamp on the right is Spreewald Canal which is actually 200 small canals, part of a traditional irrigation system which has a UNESCO designation of a biosphere reserve.
The Eifel National Park is described as a place of woods, water and wilderness. There are 240k of signposted paths and it is part of a much larger cross-border park with Belgium called the High Fens-Eifel National Park. There is a serpent in this paradise because several parts of the park will not be open to the public for a long time because of mine fields from the second world war but perhaps because of that nature will remain undisturbed.
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| 2016: Maximum Card 111 - "Barns at Twilight" |
Our walk is over and the sun is setting, time to return home
with a glance back at the Finnish Barns which you can see from the postmark in Finnish are Ladot.
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| Old Barn, Suffolk, England |
Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - Rural or Countryside - more bucolic views on
See It On A Postcard
4 comments:
that's interesting to have a post office in a home instead of the local general store.
I am also intrigued by the perforations on the barn stamps.
love the bright colours of the German landscapes.
How nice are those? Of course, my favourite would be the post office. The design of those 1966 landscapes is pretty attractive, though.
Wow, what a great collection you've blogged today. Makes me feel like all of Finland is just a series of barns :)
Love the old barns - much better than the all metal Dutch barns.
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