The Ain Dubai and Kyzylorda

                                            BLOG # 1688            

     Day 1557 ( That's One Thousand Five Hundred and Fifty Seven Days ) Since the Start of the  Current ( Second )   Russian Invasion of UKRAINE .   

                                                                        GLORY TO UKRAINE  

Good day all. I`m back with a few cards for your pleasure. 

First up is this card from Dubai , U.A.E. Ravindra sent this card while he was in the city for a

 World Stamp Exhibition in February of this year. It shows Ain Dubai,  a giant Ferris wheel located at Bluewaters Island in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is the world's tallest observation wheel, at a height of 250 m, since October 2021. 

Ravindra used a stamp from 2019 on this card. It was issued to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research.

My next card is from Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan. Now I often say here on The Blog that there is a story behind the card  and such is the case with this card. But here is the card before the story. Here we have a beautiful yellow and white building in Kyzylorda , otherwise known as the local train station. 

David use 2025 bird stamps but I could not find any info on them. But here they are.

Now as I said earlier there is a story attached to this card.  According to David, the post office itself did not think his stamps were valid stamps. So they took photos of them and sent them off to head office. He was told only parcels and registered mail was allowed to be sent - no postcards. He had to put his postcards inside a registered envelope after buying stamps that he was not even allowed to see. The post lady stamped and cancelled the cards and they were sent on their way , registered , to Dublin, Ireland where David resent this card on to me in another envelope.   Quite the ordeal I think. 

So ends another update. Thanks to Ravindra and David for the cards and stamps shown here today.