Been to a Bond filming location?
Khan
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Has anyone ever been to locations featured in Bond movies? I've been to Eilean Dolan castle in Scotland, which was a set in The World is Not Enough, and also the River Thames. I've been to other cities featured in Bond films, such as New York and New Orleans, but not to the places where filming actually took place.There are many, many locations featured in Bond films that I would like to visit. I'd love to go to Jamaica, Rio, Istanbul...well actually the list is endless. My LAST choices of Bond locations to visit would be Afghanistan (I'm not 100% sure if TLD was actually filmed there, in fact I'm betting it only fictionally took place there) and Harlem.
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1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
Iguaco falls (sp?) - Moonraker - absolutely stunning natural sight
Ko Tapu - "Bond Island" in MWTGG
Aside from these 2, just the sights of London and the casino in Monaco i think.
I have also visited Himeji castle which was used in YOLT, I only realised once I returned home and looked through my photos!
I think this topic should be moved though as it is Bond orientated.
Being that London is my favorite place! I've also been to the Nene Valley Steam Railway in Peterborough, where the train sequence in Octopussy was filmed!
The Goldeneye sequence was also filmed their, it would be interesting to see the bridge etc.
If you do have any could you let me know? Thanks.
Along with London, Piz Gloria is on my wish list!
As for me, sigh, my Bond locales are uneventful; the Trans-America Pyramid Building in San Francisco, on which an antenae almost gave Roger Moore a high altitude sex change
Wow! Did you get to visit Fleming's house, Goldeneye? That's my prime target were I to visit Jamaica.
And my parents have been to piz gloria. If i knew how to scan into an image hosting site, i would post some of their pics of it.
If you know how to scan them in I can help you with hosting them, PM me if you want any help.
As for Piz Gloria I was around the area before I was really a fan, unfortunatley it was closed at the time.
The include, London (so many!!!),
Istanbul TWINE,FRWL (including ferry past little lighthouse),
NYC Harlem (Didnt find the fillet of soul!) LALD
HongKong Harbour YOLT,
Paris (Eiffel- AVTAK) ,San Fran
Prague TLD,
Moscow - red sq. (FRWL)
Vegas - DAF
Venice - MR
East/W Germany (OP)
Mexico city (LTK)
and my absolute favourite...
TSWLM - the night show at the Pyramids!!! I swear it has not changed in 25 years! The show was almost identical - and it felt eerily like i was in a Bond film!!!
Also - the bit filmed at Aswan temple.
I'm sure there are more. Cant remember if they got to the Greek Islands or Thailand in Bond???
RIO is the one which comes to mind i desperately want to see next!
I have been to London many many many times (well it only takes me 20 mins to get there). I used to go to Holliwell Bay for holidays when I was a kid, thats where they filmed the beach and surfing scenes in DAD.
My mate Chris' uncles worked as plane handlers and where consultants on the pre-titles of TND, the plane Bond is in was theirs actually. He brought photos into school years ago to show me the shots they had taken of Pierce, brown leather jacket and all. In fact when Pierce was in the cockpit standing and shooting the plane started to move and his uncle got the honour to shout at Bond to "GET YOUR FOOT OFF THE PEDAL!"
When me and Mrs Rush go to our favourite restaurant, we always drive past the road junction that Bond turns into in his stolen Alfa Romeo, where he almost collides with Kamal Khan and Gobinda who are making their escape before the bomb goes off.
while there I saw several filming locations from DAD, including Buckingham Palace (Graves parachute jump location., Westminster bridge, (Bond discovers door to underground MI6 base.)and
MI6 headquarters (Also seen in GE and the precredits of TWINE.) I also saw Whitehall (Offices of the British armed Forces, featured in TND Bond drives his Aston Martin there from Oxford.) and the Malaysia House in Trafalgar Square ( Was used as Universal Exports office in TLD, it is now the offices of the Malaysia Tourisum Promotion Board, hence the name. )
One place that I would love to go: Corfu (FYEO), it doesn't get much better than that.
they filmed DAF, but I had no idea that Bond even
existed back then. I was about 10.
I'm sure I'd heard of James Bond, but it really
didn't mean anything to me.
have they done any other filming in the States?
I also drove on the Sardinian roads where Naomi's helicopter was trying to shoot holes in the Lotus. I was in a rented Fiat Panda so it was difficult to recreate that real Bond flavour - it was white though. Couldn't find the little pier that the car is launched from and wondered if it had been specially built for the film in an area that had deep enough water and a long enough approach?
When my brother was working in London in 99, his office backed onto the thames and they saw the boat chase being filmed all day. I would have given anything to be there that day.
Well,I was at Brent Cross Shopping Centre in North West London while they were shooting the 7 series BMW chase for TND.That was funny cos there signs all over the place to say if you heard explosions not to worry!Couldn't get anywhere near filming though...I tried,believe me!!!
Other than that,I have been to the hotel in Jaipur
were they filmed some of Octopussy and to the water markets in Thailand.
I live in the San Francisco bay area so I have seen a few different locations for AVTAK. More notably, however, I went to Venice while in Europe for a month and saw a few locations for MR filming such as the Danieli Hotel, where Bond had his first fling with Holly Goodhead with their first kiss with the Grand Canal in the background and the some of the canals featured during the Gondola or "Bondola" chase, also St Marc's Square where the Bondola turns into a hovercraft. I have been to London a couple times and saw all the obvious sights that were just wonderful like the River Thames and Parliament, also been to Paris and the Eiffel Tower from AVTAK. Great trip!
Venice in 1987 i believe when Pink Floyd gave their last concert there, remember it being rather smelly in August.
I've been to Andermatt in Switzerland.
I've been to Athos mountain in Greece.
Visited Berlin numerous times including Checkpoint Charlie.
Been to Paris and Vienna on occasion.
And as i live in Cornwall now i've been to Eden project and in the Biodomes.
I've visited Paris (how many tourists don't visit the Eiffel Tower, seriously?), London (the Eye in particular), and Himeji Castle. I'm not sure whether or not certain parts of YOLT were. When I was much younger I practically lived part time in Hong Kong, where my grandmother's old apartment was right across the Bottoms Up club of TMWTGG fame. Sometimes we'd have tea at the Peninsula Hotel, which was a real treat for me. In those days I think they still had the green Rolls Royces at the Peninsula.
Alas, I just missed out on an opportunity to visit Vienna, Prague, Berlin, and other central European cities this summer.