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You’ve certainly heard of visiting Paris by boat, by bus, by bike….but what about by BUBBLE ? This extraordinarily modern means of transportation is available for a limited time only (1963 was the last and only trip!) for fashion models only. Well, the rest of us can marvel over the entire bubble series by Melvin Sokolsky for Harper’s Magazine. There is something astonishingly contemporary about them.

I would even venture to say that bubbles have, of late, been appearing in the most unusual ways. Take, for examples, this recent photo of bubble-mobiles at the Hôtel de Ville,  the mysterious Beaubourg bubble, and the unique bubble event in the Grand Palais.

Sign of the times?

For those of you keen on bubble-like transportation in Paris, you might consider these bubble mobiles (in French, cyclobulles).

Museums in Paris were swarming with visitors into the wee hours last Saturday night, the one night of year during which the city offers free admission. The Grand Palais was open to the public for a rare and surprising evening of bubbles by the millions. You may think that we already have enough bubbles as it is, with financial and real estate markets, and now government deficits, bulging out of control. The bubbles to which the Grand Palais treated us, though, were nice bubbles, lovely and fragrant.

Under the immense glass roof of this grand exhibition hall built during the Eiffel period, special machines were spewing out perfectly shaped and delicately fragranced bubbles fort the masses. As described on the official Grand Palais website : “The Nave will be staging a magical event entitled NoctamBulle for which perfumer Francis Kurkdjian is creating a collection of scented bubbles combining floral, fruit, herbal and honey fragrances with a sound mood created by Béatrice Ardisson.” Ah, not just any bubbles you see !