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Romania 2003 Easter Rabbit Stamp

Mairiuna and Jean-Claude are traveling today towards the beautiful French Touraine’s region to visit family, and I would like to wish, on their behalf and mine, to all our loyal readers, a very Happy Easter!
The celebration of Easter is a worldwide celebration and involves many customs and traditions.
It’s a time of [...]

 
 
If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.
Thomas Mulligan (*)
 
Is there a golf season? I wonder…
So many times have we been watching Scottish people deeply absorbed in their game while we were staying miserable and drenched to the skin on the edge of [...]

 
 
A few days ago, when I discovered ‘First Days of Golf’, Iain and Margaret’s last Letter from Scotland, I suddenly realised that our friends had been writing on Scotiana for more than one year. Their first letter appeared on February 13 th 2010 and we are not about to forget this memorable date since they [...]

I guess I will surprise no one if I confessed that Iain’s latest post about the “First Day of Golf…” got me running to my stamp albums to see if I could find some stamps featuring Scottish golf courses.
You can imagine the smile on my face when I stumbled upon a Great Britain First Day Cover commemorating the [...]