Paris Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/paris/ Mechanically-minded travel Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:39:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Rétromobile – The Vintage Car Show with Parisian Style https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/retromobile-the-vintage-car-show-with-parisian-style/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/retromobile-the-vintage-car-show-with-parisian-style/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:59:30 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=11203 Classic and vintage car fans will be getting ready for next year’s Rétromobile in Paris in February. The annual Salon Rétromobile started in 1976 and is now one of the best-known collector car exhibitions in Europe, drawing around 130,000+ visitors, 450+ exhibitors and 500+ automobiles. It is held at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/12/retromobile-the-vintage-car-show-with-parisian-style/feed/ 0 Urban Aerial Taxi cleared to fly during the Paris Olympics https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/urban-aerial-taxi-cleared-to-fly-during-the-paris-olympics/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/urban-aerial-taxi-cleared-to-fly-during-the-paris-olympics/#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:10:46 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=10341 The citizens of Paris, and visitors to the Olympic Games (26 Jul – 11 Aug), may be among the first to see how close we all are to the new world of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) now that the French Government has given the go ahead to a floating vertiport on the River Seine near […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/07/urban-aerial-taxi-cleared-to-fly-during-the-paris-olympics/feed/ 0 Review: Museum of the Liberation of Paris https://mechtraveller.com/2023/03/review-museum-of-the-liberation-of-paris/ https://mechtraveller.com/2023/03/review-museum-of-the-liberation-of-paris/#respond Sat, 11 Mar 2023 12:19:02 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=8745 The Museum of the Liberation of Paris, in Paris, tells the story of the occupation of Paris in the Second World War, its resistance, and its eventual liberation in Aug 1944. It’s not a museum loaded with artefacts, most of the displays are reproduced historic photographs, documents and maps. They are laid out in a […]

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