Calais Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/calais/ Mechanically-minded travel Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:12:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Calais WW2 Memorial Museum https://mechtraveller.com/2024/09/calais-ww2-memorial-museum/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/09/calais-ww2-memorial-museum/#respond Fri, 27 Sep 2024 10:08:51 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10558 The Calais Memorial Museum (Le Musée Mémoire 39-45 de Calais) is housed in a large (94m long) German WW2 concrete bunker in the middle of the Saint-Pierre park in downtown Calais. The bunker was a command post, built in 1941 for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy). Hidden among the trees in the park and strictly off-limits […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/09/calais-ww2-memorial-museum/feed/ 0 The Dragon of Calais is preparing for the new season https://mechtraveller.com/2021/02/the-dragon-of-calais-is-preparing-for-the-new-season/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/02/the-dragon-of-calais-is-preparing-for-the-new-season/#respond Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:23:21 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6705 The French seaside town and ferry port was expecting its famous mechanical dragon to be operating in the build up to Christmas and New Year, but COVID-19 struck again and so the Compagnie du Dragon has been using the downtime for a bit of maintenance. I got to see him/her* on a short test outing […]

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