Category: Event

A few weeks ago, I went to the exhibition Grand Train in the abandoned train warehouse of La Chapelle, a popular Parisian district.

I heard of this exhibit by chance and I’m glad I did! It reminded me of my childhood. When I was a boy, I had many toy trains, and I would play with them for hours. I travelled a lot with them!

So when I visited Grand Train, I was thrilled. Here they were, the trains of my childhood (I confess, I was born in the twentieth century), and, again, they made me travel.

Of course, if you are not really into train but have to accompany your old dad, don’t worry. The warehouse has been turned into a trendy place with restaurants, a bookshop, a library and even a small cinema.

Free Exhibition scheduled until October 16, 2016

To learn more about Grand Train, click here.

 

If you had been in Paris last Sunday, you would have bumped into hundreds of vintage cars, motorcycles, tractors, buses and even bicycles. To be totally accurate, there were 740 of them and the most recent one was 30 years old.

I know that sometimes we Parisians are a bit (very?) snobbish but still we don’t drive vintage cars anymore. It was just the ninth “Traversée de Paris Estivale” (or summer Paris crossing) organized by Vincennes en Anciennes, the largest French association of vintage cars.

Of course, as a photographer, I could not resist but go and take pictures of these amazing Alvis, Cadillac, Citroen Traction Avant or Volkswagen Bettle cars! In fact, I had such a great time that I might organize a special workshop next year.

 

What do you think?