PT RR - Surprise Group * October '22

World Postcard Day is in October and these postcards already celebrate it in some way.

Rui sent a card from sunny Algarve with a stamp cancelled with a WPD postmark. 

Once a fishing village of great importance, especially between the13th and 16th centuries, Praia da Luz is now very popular with tourists and one of the best beaches in the Algarve.  

A cobbled promenade along the sea front, offers sunny terraces and lots of entertainment during the summer. Flanked by large palm trees, this road merges to the west with the walls of the fortress originally built to protect the Church of Luz from attacks by pirates from North Africa.

Back in the days to travel by plane was glamorous, luxurious, comfortable and fun. It is always fun for me to fly but not always comfortable and definitely not glamorous and luxurious. This KLM picture shows a bit of how much flying has changed over the years. 

The postcard was sent by Pedro.

On October 1st, dozens of meetings took place all over the world. In Brazil there were at least two, one of them in São Paulo, from where Samara sent this postcard

 

  

Photo: @postcardsfromogait

This is how the traditional Portuguese mailboxes look like. The red one is for ordinary mail and the blue for priority mail. Although beautiful, I confess that I rarely drop my postcards in these boxes, I prefer to use the boxes at the post office. It feels safer. 

The card was sent by Nídia and the picture was taken by Tiago in Ponte de Lima.