Showing posts with label Royal stamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Royal stamp. Show all posts

04/10/2024

#81 GF - Hamilton, Bermuda


Bermuda is named after the Spanish sailor Juan de Bermúdez, who discovered the islands in 1505, while sailing for Spain from a provisioning voyage to Hispaniola in the ship La Garça.

In the early 20th century Bermuda became a popular destination for American, Canadian and British tourists arriving by sea. The US Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which enacted protectionist trade tariffs on goods imported into the US, led to the demise of Bermuda's once-thriving agricultural export trade to America and encouraged development of tourism as an alternative source of income. The island was one of the centres for illegal alcohol smuggling during the era of Prohibition in the United States (1920–1933).


 

16/06/2024

#77 GF - Nottingham, England


Nottingham is a major sporting centre and, in October 2015, was named 'Home of English Sport'. The National Ice Centre, Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre and Trent Bridge International Cricket Ground are all based in or around the city, which is also the home of two professional football teams: Notts County, recognised as the world's oldest professional league club, and Nottingham Forest, famously two-time winners of the UEFA European Cup. The city has professional rugby, ice hockey and cricket teams; it also hosts the Aegon Nottingham Open, an international tennis tournament on the ATP and WTA tours. This accolade came just over a year after Nottingham was named as the UK's first City of Football.


 

04/06/2024

Postcrossing Meeting in Konz - Schieren, Luxembourg


Konz is a city in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated at the confluence of the rivers Saar and Moselle, approx 8 km southwest of Trier. Konz is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Konz. 


 

25/05/2023

Luna Park Melbourne - Melbourne, Australia


Luna Park Melbourne is a historic amusement park located on the foreshore of Port Phillip Bay in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria. It opened on 13 December 1912, with a formal opening a week later, and has been operating almost continuously ever since.


 

01/11/2020

Beers - Midelburg, The Netherlands


Middelburg is the capital of Zealand, the westernmost province of the Netherlands (peninsulas and finger-shaped islands on the border with Belgium). The admiral and explorer Jacob Roggeven, the discoverer of Easter Island, was born in Middelburg.