This time I show you just one river, the river Waal (see also here).
I grew up in the city of Nijmegen, and this nice, Roman founded city is located at this river Waal.
Since 20 years I live close to my birth place Amsterdam, which is 120 kilometers north-west of Nijmegen. But every time I'm visiting my old town and when I see this river Waal, its typical 'uiterwaarden' and the bridges, I feel like 'home'. Even though the city has changed, and most of my friends have moved to other places, too.
This is a so-called personalized stamp, which has been issued, via PostNL, by Quinta Buma, photographer from Nijmegen.
She also designed this postcard, on which you see a little more of this river:
The Waal is said to have been founded because of a quarrel between two giants, two brothers.
Long time ago these brothers started to dig a river in Switzerland, the river Rhine. After hundred years of digging they arrived at Lobith, where they got a fight. Each of the brothers went his own way. The younger giant continued digging out what's named the Rhine nowadays, the older brother created the river Waal.
PostNL (then TPG Post) has issued a stamp sheet in honour of Nijmegen in 2005, on which you can see parts of the river Waal, too:
See stamps on lakes and more rivers at/via today's Sunday Stamps post.
I first heard of Nijmegen during the war when the bridge was one of those to be captured as an aim of Operation Market Garden. So good to see it in a peaceful setting.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenO yes, there has happened a lot around this bridge (and also at the bridge over the river Rijn in Arnhem, a city 19 kms north of Nijmegen). I was born 20 years after WW2 has ended so I only know these peaceful sceneries. Although memories and memorials are present in this area, too.
VerwijderenA great contribution today focusing on your favorite bridge/river. I wish they had additional scenes from Nijmegen on the Mooi Nederland sheet, instead of just one stamp design.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenYou are right. But at least the sheet itself shows various scenes: the statue of Marieke van Nimwegen, the Valkhof Museum (modern building showing - among others -archeologic findings from the Roman period), the typical Sint Stevenskerk, and one detail on the stamp is a walker, walking the international Four Days walk (Vierdaagse), of which the 100th edition took place last July.
VerwijderenLucky for you Nijmegenaren (?) that these brothers had a falling out.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenHow beautiful! Lovely reflections, too.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenNice bridge especially lit up. I like all the little details on the stamp sheet.
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