National Jenevermuseum, Belgium

A really great official card I had received from Belgium!

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This card shows the National Jenever museum in Hasselt.

It is said that the French have their cognac, the Scots their whisky, the Germans their schnapps, and the Russians their vodka. And the Belgians… they have genever and have been drinking it for more than 500 years. In the English speaking world it is known as the Dutch gin, the juniper-flavored and strongly alcoholic traditional liquor of the Netherlands and Belgium, from which gin evolved. Believed to have been invented by a Dutch chemist and alchemist named Sylvius de Bouve, it was first sold as a medicine in the late 16th century. In the 17th century, it became more popular for its flavour. In its long life, genever has taken on many different forms. In good times it was made from corn, in not-so-good times from molasses. In some regions it was spicy, in other regions it had a neutral taste. Some loved it and other loathed it, it was a source of joy, but also of intense irritation. The government had a love-hate relationship with genever, which on the one hand was a great source of income but on the other, represented a danger to public health.

and i ABSOLUTELY love the stamp on this card! maybe it is not a jenever, but it really matches the topic, and still, such a lovely picturesque stamp it is. It comes from an m/s of 5 stamps issued in 2010 depicting the La Hesbaye region in Belgium.

Someone feels like doing a *cheers* with a glass of wine? Or jenever? :)

The Franklin Institute Science Museum, USA

One of the trains sent to ran over me...they did quite a good job coz they cracked well my stiff back and muscles :)

the card shows the Baldwin Locomotive #60,000

The mighty 350-ton steam-locomotive takes thousands of visitors for a ride down its track daily. In 1993, before the institute's west wall was constructed, the locomotive was hauled in on temporary tracks. The Railroad Room houses other trains and railroad memorabilia.

I wish we had a railway museum here too....

the lovely surprise was sent by dear Chris...even though im a really lousy pal...so many thanks to him for being so nice and overlooking my lousiness :)

Kansas Musem of History, USA

This great card came again as a surprise sent from Naomi on the behalf of dear Tina who knows just how much I love trains! Thanks sooo much to both of you <3

Built in 1880, Engine No.132 is the oldest locomotive from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. After a long career as freight locomotive and switch engine, it became part of a corporate show train as the "Cyrus K.Holiday". The restored train now stands in the Kansas Museum of History.

and apart from the American clock stamp you all know well, there are another two really cute commemorative ones issued this year under the title Sunday Funnies. The whole set consists of 5 stamps, and the two designs here show Calvin and Hobbes (right) which captures the precocious 6-year-old and his tiger pal making scary and ridiculous faces, while the one on the left shows Garfield and Ollie, standing back to back.

Novi Sad, Serbia

A very nice card that comes from Judit.

It shows the Manual Forgotten Arts Museum in Novi Sad, which is an amazing collection of antiquated arts. The museum consists of two parts; a workshop for manufacturing products made from leather, using the traditional methods, and the New Musueum. The items collected here date from the times between the two world wars. There are more than 20 topics you can encounter here, and they will keep being complemented as long as the museum itself exists. Some of the topics include: packaging (tin boxes, wooden boxes, cardboard boxes ...), restaurants (wooden crates, glass packaging, beer taproom ...), Office (Desk, chairs, working lamps, office accessories), promotional material (posters, tin sheets, enamelled panels, ashtrays, Stender ...), film (film projectors, posters, movies ...), art (paintings, sculpture ...), trades (carpenters, barbers, tailors), travel (suitcases, bags, postcards, posters ...), instruments and electrical equipment (measuring instruments, scales, radios ...), medicine (dentist, doctor, a gynecologist ...)

Definitely seems like an interesting place, which i MUST visit on my next trip to NS...whenever that will be...

and a LOVELY stamp with a TRAIN!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, a locomotive actually, but its theme is Trains & Railways :)
It was issued in 2009 in a set of two stamps, regarding the 125th Anniversary of the Railroad in Serbia.

Hvala ti Judit!