Geoff Moore, Author at Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/author/geoffmoore/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:50:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Riga Motor Museum, Latvia https://mechtraveller.com/2018/02/riga-motor-museum-latvia/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/02/riga-motor-museum-latvia/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:35:01 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3006 Soviet leaders and Pollitt Bureau chiefs had the luxury of travelling around the USSR in style whilst the rest of population were lucky to have any petrol powered transport at their beck and call. Now a fine collection of vehicles from that Communist rule era makes up an important part of a modern motor transport […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2018/02/riga-motor-museum-latvia/feed/ 0 D-Day Landings Museum Opens in Dorset https://mechtraveller.com/2017/03/d-day-landings-museum-opens-dorset/ https://mechtraveller.com/2017/03/d-day-landings-museum-opens-dorset/#comments Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:31:05 +0000 http://mechtraveller.com/?p=2214 A brand new museum focused on D-Day and its connections to the American servicemen that left Britain in 1944 for the Normandy beaches, has just opened in Portland, Dorset. The Castletown D-Day Centre has been in the planning for several years and it is perfectly placed within yards of where thousands of US troops embarked […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2017/03/d-day-landings-museum-opens-dorset/feed/ 1 The Killing Fields of Wiltshire https://mechtraveller.com/2017/02/the-killing-fields-of-wiltshire/ https://mechtraveller.com/2017/02/the-killing-fields-of-wiltshire/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:42:47 +0000 http://mechtraveller.com/?p=2043 Zeroing in on central Wiltshire for a weekend escape to the country has opened my eyes to a time in history that, when I lived there, seemed to have passed me by. Staying in Marlborough, a town with the widest high street in the UK and a well-known public school, has helped to improve my […]

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