September 19, 2007
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Tour India Through Stamps
Building Web sites is one of my hobbies. But that hobby started only from September of 2000 when I was almost 60 years old. I have another hobby that is going on since I was 10 years old. That hobby is stamp collecting. Unlike most people, I collect stamps for enjoyment – not for profit. And I collect in a totally different way seldom practiced by any other collector. I have built a worldwide network of people who simply donate stamps to me. It took me about 56 years to build such an enormous network. I have thousands and thousands of different stamps from all over the world which I have acquired for free! I do not buy stamps for the purpose of collecting. To be totally honest, I may have bought a couple of hundred stamps in my whole life. I think, that does not count.
My first Web site was Stamp Collecting – Doing it for enjoyment, not for profit. That site instantly became a great success. There are over 580 guestbook entries there till date. (This should give you an idea about how popular that site is.) Anyway, that is beside the point.
Another of my hobby is traveling. Some people have asked me after I posted a slideshow of some of my travel pictures here a few days ago, if I traveled for business. No, I am not that lucky. Nobody ever paid a single penny for my trips at home or abroad. I just saved up and took trips whenever I got a chance. And I have been to many more places than what this little slideshow shows.
Recently, I combined my two hobbies – stamp collecting and traveling – to make another Web site having the same title as above. I have many India stamps that focuses on places of tourist interest. I have used some of those stamps to make that site.
Here, I have created a slideshow using some of the stamps from the site called Tour India Through Stamps. I hope you will enjoy the slideshow even if you are not (and most people are not) a stamp collector. I have used about 60 stamps in this slideshow. So to see the complete show, it will take a few minutes. Please feel free to move away, if you are not interested. This show is primarily for me. I shall watch it again and again because it satisfies my appetite for two different things – stamp collecting and traveling.
Thank you for watching. Please visit the original site, if this slideshow generates any interest in you. You will see actual photos of the places shown on the stamps or get more information about each subject in my Web site. I am thinking of personally conducting a guided tour of India in near future. If interested you can contact me through this site.
Comments (6)
You know, I used to do stamp collecting when I was a kid. there are some amazing stamps out there and the ones you are displaying are lovely. Thanks for the photos. Take care and have a lovely rest of the week!
PS: I can’t wait till you post more elephant pictures!
You are a kind of giant ! Your collection is titanesque and so for your new site Tour India through stamps . I had a glance sufficient to see it is immense with rich descriptions and many links . What a work ! For sure this site is a reference in the matter . I wonder what was your job in the past but it is certain it was very important as all of thing you undertake too do since 2000 . I cannot say that for me .
I add you are also an excellent photographer because it is not easy to picture stamps . And your pictures are perfect .
About the joke below , you can add to the monolingual people : the Frenchmen ! French didn’ t use to speak english and this only now the young people learn English or American correctly probably because it is become a necessity with the global thing ! Personally I am poor in English and I had to make an effort to re- learn a bit in 1994/2000 . Alas I am deaf …for the English spoken ! I can read only and write poorly !!
In friendship
Michel
ps : you mau ask me why I am on this Xanga anglophone system . It ‘ s a long long story .
I think that most people just don’t see the amazing details and rich images on the “lowly” stamp! Many of them are beautiful! My grampa “collected” stamps, too. People would send him their old envelopes and such for him to remove the stamps. So today I have an interesting collection of postcards, some of them from the 1800s, though most a little older, that present a fascinating view of life back in the day.
I like the way you have presented your slide show, with each stamp identified. Like Michel, I marvel at the photos you have captured. (And now he has piqued my interest with his Xanga reference; it’s one we need to follow up on, don’t you think?)
Yes, do the guided tour through India because I certainly won’t be able to walk the tour! That was some story about your back. Most people think I am rushing into surgery, but when I have a problem, I want it taken care of immediately. I am very impatient when it comes to anything slowing me down. I enjoyed the fact that you also had to re-learn how to properly perform activites of daily living. Why don’t they teach us that BEFORE our backs go bad?
RYC: Thanks for your comment! You have a family camel?
RYC: the little girl in the profile picture will return.. I usually rotate the pictures fairly regular. I have a comment for you regarding your stamp collection but will send it in a message.. it is actually a question.