Archive for April, 2010

Pets – Parrots

Macedonian post issued a postage stamps featuring the pets – parrot.

The Faroese Colours

Nature has always occupied a special place in the heart of all-round artist Eli Smith (1955) who began painting with pigments obtained from Faroese localities in 2003. This became a series of pictures painted with pure natural materials such as iron oxide, sand, mussel shells, turf and charcoal. A great deal of experience and inspiration [...]

Submarine Reserve of Larvotto

A protected zone, arranged on the east coast of the Principality, the submarine reserve of Larvotto extends over 14 hectares and reaches a maximum depth of 40 metres. Fishing, mooring and the circulation of motorboats are prohibited there. The stamp illustrates a Pinna nobilis, a vulnerable and protected species, broadly present in the reserve. Living [...]

Europa 2010 Childrens books – Faroe Islands

A good children’s book is not merely a children’s book, it is just as soon a book for everybody to enjoy, both to look at and to read. Each person gets something out of it, the adult as well as the young reader. There must be room for all age groups.

Clover – Fifinka

Fifinka, the only “girl” in ?ty?lístek (Four-leaf clover) – cult comics series by the illustrator and creator Jaroslav N?me?ek. As a good housewife she is reading in a cookbook and on the table before her is a cup of white coffee and a cake. Stories of the ?ty?lístek are being issued more than incredible 40 [...]

Album cover

The Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s local radio service celebrates its 50th anniversary in April 2010. As part of a groundbreaking new partnership with Post Danmark, the station invited listeners to vote the most memorable Danish album cover of the last half century. The listeners voted the cover of the Gasolin’ album Gasolin’ 3 from 1973. The [...]


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