Lahore - Pakistan

 Asia-Pakistan-Lahore This is the Badshahi Mosque which is within the wall city of Lahore . I think the must see city in Pakistan . The wall city is amazing and impressive and is also known as the old city. 

Posted at the GPO in Lahore . A old type Post office .  The mail from Pakistan is very quick in getting back . Impressed. 

Gilgit - Pakistan

 Asia-Pakistan-Gilgit . This is in the Northern area of Pakistan . I have to say despite the poor quality of the highway driving up from Islamabad , it is certainly a highlight in this country . Up and around  the Mountains and it is beautiful . 

More of the excessive stamps, but I was well used to it at this stage.  

Azad Kashmir - Pakistan

 Asia-Pakistan-Azad Kashmir-Muzaffarabad I have to admit I have never heard of the main city in Pakistan Kashmir before. Traveled by road from Islamabad on the way up to the mountains . At this time travellers were restricted on where in Kashmir they could visit. So this is spend the day and had lunch here. 

There are 16 stamps on this card. I had to put them in a certain way to get them all on the card. Low value stamps only available at this post office. 

Islamabad - Pakistan

 Asia-Pakistan-Islamabad This is the capital of Pakistan and my point of entry for the tour of Pakistan . I had enjoyed my brief visit for a few days to Peshawar in 2006. So 18 years ago , how time flies. Islamabad is a relatively modern city and enjoyed the time here . Everyone very friendly and certainly at low prices compared to Europe. 

My first visit to the Post office was sort of a shock . The building itself was in need of a good clean both inside and out. I did visit the small Philatelic Bureau but most of the stamps were low value. I did go to the main Post office counter for stamps but they had even lower value stamps. I guess most international mail had meter stamps on the outside. So as you can see here this Postcard has 6 stamps.. This was a low number compared what I had in visits to some of the other cities. 

Westport Ireland

 Europe-Ireland-Mayo-Westport  This is a very popular tourist town in the West of Ireland. I had been thought this area about twice before but never stayed. So stayed a few nights during the wonderful sunny days of August . Went by train from Dublin . 

I had forgotten to get stamps in advance so purchased a booklet from the local Post Office. The postmark is celebrating Tayto potato chips being 70 years old. Which is now famous as being one of the first to produce this product. I have to say I love Tayto crisps as we call them in Ireland .