1.Monte Carlo-Goldeneye casino
2.French Riveria-NSNA boat dock (I think it was the same)
3.NYC-Voodoo shop
4.Rome
5.London-SIS building, 10 Trinity Square, Whitehall, Trafalgar square, Somerset house, college of arms, DAD door, old royal naval college, Virgin Active Canary riverside club, Broadgate tower, Westminster station, Isle of dogs bridge, Ormamental canal, Millennium dome, Rule's restaurant, Duke's bar, I'm probably missing a few.
6. Scotland-Eilean Donan castle, Glencoe
I was in Monte Carlo in the start of July, putting a little video together on how and why and my impressions on it.
Lake Como/Garda followed thereafter and it's easy to see why so many celebrities live there.
One of my favourite locations. Didn't go outside Whyte's estate though.
I've also been to Venice, in fact I got married there. I've also been to Vienna, siena, Lake garda and como, costing, sardinia, new York, Paris, Hamburg, Rome, Miami, loads of places in Greece, Egypt, Gibraltar and of course London and Scotland. I'm sure there are others but I can't quite recall any more bond locations. Nassau is on the list of places I want to visit, I've also been to Croatia so if rumours are true I'll be able to add that.
Vesper, how did you like Venice?
To be honest I was not a fan of Venice. It was stunning but the locals were openly hostile. I can understand why. The food was unimpressive. It kind of was like Disney Land but no one smiled. I will add I am not a romantic and play the accordion so I was not charmed by 'O Sole Mio being played on gondolas.
I have been to some or actually most of the European and American cities, but the most impressive Bond location so far was certainly the temple of Karnak in Egypt.
And I live quite close to the Kurfürstendamm in (former West) Berlin and seeing it in a Bond film is what I like most about Octopussy.
"I'm afraid I'm a complicated woman. "
"- That is something to be afraid of."
I've also been to Venice, in fact I got married there. I've also been to Vienna, siena, Lake garda and como, costing, sardinia, new York, Paris, Hamburg, Rome, Miami, loads of places in Greece, Egypt, Gibraltar and of course London and Scotland. I'm sure there are others but I can't quite recall any more bond locations. Nassau is on the list of places I want to visit, I've also been to Croatia so if rumours are true I'll be able to add that.
Vesper, how did you like Venice?
To be honest I was not a fan of Venice. It was stunning but the locals were openly hostile. I can understand why. The food was unimpressive. It kind of was like Disney Land but no one smiled. I will add I am not a romantic and play the accordion so I was not charmed by 'O Sole Mio being played on gondolas.
Remarkable that was your experience. I found the locals very friendly and outgoing, we were treated very well indeed. The street food is very unimpressive but relatively cheap but I never had a bad experience in any of the restaurants, we ate in the Grand Canal hotel restaurant many times and went there for our wedding meal (again as did Clooney), the manager always remembered my name and we got complimentary prosecco and zabaglioni. We've returned to stay in the Hotel Saturnia every time the room we always ask for is the one I stayed in my first visit and 5 minutes after entering the room the sounds of one sole mio rang out being sung from a gondola that was in a small canal under my balcony, as I found because of the acoustics there they all sing it there! It's a nice experience once a day but 20 times a day over 14 days it wore a bit thin )
Remarkable that was your experience. I found the locals very friendly and outgoing, we were treated very well indeed. The street food is very unimpressive but relatively cheap but I never had a bad experience in any of the restaurants, we ate in the Grand Canal hotel restaurant many times and went there for our wedding meal (again as did Clooney), the manager always remembered my name and we got complimentary prosecco and zabaglioni. We've returned to stay in the Hotel Saturnia every time the room we always ask for is the one I stayed in my first visit and 5 minutes after entering the room the sounds of one sole mio rang out being sung from a gondola that was in a small canal under my balcony, as I found because of the acoustics there they all sing it there! It's a nice experience once a day but 20 times a day over 14 days it wore a bit thin )
I think we might have been working with different budgets hence seeing different things. Clooney is out of my price range. I was in the area where little old ladies gave you dirty looks and threw dog poop into alleys )
Remarkable that was your experience. I found the locals very friendly and outgoing, we were treated very well indeed. The street food is very unimpressive but relatively cheap but I never had a bad experience in any of the restaurants, we ate in the Grand Canal hotel restaurant many times and went there for our wedding meal (again as did Clooney), the manager always remembered my name and we got complimentary prosecco and zabaglioni. We've returned to stay in the Hotel Saturnia every time the room we always ask for is the one I stayed in my first visit and 5 minutes after entering the room the sounds of one sole mio rang out being sung from a gondola that was in a small canal under my balcony, as I found because of the acoustics there they all sing it there! It's a nice experience once a day but 20 times a day over 14 days it wore a bit thin )
I think we might have been working with different budgets hence seeing different things. Clooney is out of my price range. I was in the area where little old ladies gave you dirty looks and threw dog poop into alleys )
) just to point out we got married in January, the hotels are less than half the price than in peak season.
- London
- Istanbul
- Switzerland
- Tokyo, even stayed at the hotel that is Osato's office in the movie YOLT
- Las Vegas
- Amsterdam
- New York
- Nice, France
- Puerto Rico
- New Orleans
- Bangkok
- Hong Kong (unfortunately not in the garden that was Hai Fat's house. It was closed.)
- Rio de Janeiro
- Monte Carlo
- Venice
- Paris
- Berlin
- San Francisco
- Vienna
- Miami
- Cuba
- Hamburg
- Scotland (Eilean Donan Castle, Glencoe)
- Lago di Como
- Sienna
- Shanghai
- Rome
Still on the list are:
- Switzerland location of OHMSS
- Jamaica
- Bahamas
I've also been to Venice, in fact I got married there. I've also been to Vienna, siena, Lake garda and como, costing, sardinia, new York, Paris, Hamburg, Rome, Miami, loads of places in Greece, Egypt, Gibraltar and of course London and Scotland. I'm sure there are others but I can't quite recall any more bond locations. Nassau is on the list of places I want to visit, I've also been to Croatia so if rumours are true I'll be able to add that.
Vesper, how did you like Venice?
To be honest I was not a fan of Venice. It was stunning but the locals were openly hostile. I can understand why. The food was unimpressive. It kind of was like Disney Land but no one smiled. I will add I am not a romantic and play the accordion so I was not charmed by 'O Sole Mio being played on gondolas.
Remarkable that was your experience. I found the locals very friendly and outgoing, we were treated very well indeed. The street food is very unimpressive but relatively cheap but I never had a bad experience in any of the restaurants, we ate in the Grand Canal hotel restaurant many times and went there for our wedding meal (again as did Clooney), the manager always remembered my name and we got complimentary prosecco and zabaglioni. We've returned to stay in the Hotel Saturnia every time the room we always ask for is the one I stayed in my first visit and 5 minutes after entering the room the sounds of one sole mio rang out being sung from a gondola that was in a small canal under my balcony, as I found because of the acoustics there they all sing it there! It's a nice experience once a day but 20 times a day over 14 days it wore a bit thin )
My wife and I had a fantastic time in Venice too. We went in September and stayed in a small B&B which was a beautiful palazzo with three bedrooms for guests, a tremendous spread for breakfast overlooking a canal, and a glass of prosecco to welcome us. It was also very inexpensive. The owners told us the best restaurants to eat in, places mostly frequented by locals, inexpensive and simply superb. When we said that we didn't think we'd take a gondola ride because we'd heard bad things about them, they encouraged us, told us the maximum amount to pay so that we didn't get ripped-off. We took all of their advice and it was a fantastic experience! I would return to Venice in a heartbeat and although I'd go straight to that B&B again, one day I want to stay in the Gritti Palace!
Afghanistan
New York
San Francisco
Rome
Vienna
Berlin
Switzerland
Monaco (Still paying off the casino)
Croatia
Portugal
Spain
Bratislava
Prague
Montenegro
Amsterdam
Hong Kong
Tokyo
Corfu
London
Scotland
Aldershot (aka North Korea)
MOONRAKER Venice, danieli, lido(Brazil m16 hq), st marks square (Venini glass and clock), ca rezonnico (draxs office/science lab, murano (glass museum), fondamenta di misericordia ( Jim bumps into holly and gets in gondola) , fenice (bond gets told to go on leave)
QUANTUM OF SOLACE Lake como quantum of solace (car chase in the tunnels)
LIVE AND LET DIE New York Oh cult voodoo shop east 65th street, 118th street Harlem and JFK airport, FDR drive
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER circus circus las vegas and Mccarran airport, Dover
DIE ANOTHER DAY secret door off Westminster bridge
GOLDENEYE Somerset house courtyard , for the st Petersburg square, greek cathedral interior and exterior Bayswater and Fulham , alpes maritimes
SKYFALL Whitehall, national gallery and the Turner picture room, glencoe Scotland , trinity house,
Primrose st broadgate tower,great Suffolk st,lake como, m's house
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH o2 arena
LIVING DAYLIGHTS Trafalgar Square (universal exports)
CASINO ROYALE Venice st marks square and back streets
GOLDFINGER iver Heath and pinewood studios
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY Beckton
OCTOPUSSY Greenwich maritime museum and M16 building, sothebys
ive been to the eiffel tower a view to a kill ......gibraltar the living daylights .....crab quay.....and dunns falls where dr no and live and let die was filmed and some london locations .
Just did part of the Moonraker car chase route in Kent, UK. The book, not the movie.
The A20 route followed in the book where Bond chases Drax in Chapter 20, Drax's Gambit, can still be followed. The geography described in the book is very accurate, as you'd expect from Fleming. From Charing there is a roundabout (not a fork like in the book) and then a steep rise up to a flat run of around one mile straight. It is all in the book and can still be followed just as it happens on the text Fleming wrote.
I had someone reading the book to me as I drove the route. It was a lot of fun on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
I did part of it at the weekend, and ended my journey at the Duck Inn country pub which was one of Fleming's haunts in the 1960s whenever he wanted to stop off for a quiet drink.
A few days ago I had a long lunch at Scott's restaurant with my two former colleagues from my bookshop days. I had reserved a table several weeks ago and the taxi dropped me outside with the doorman rushing over to open the door and escort me in. Scott's has a history in the James Bond world as being a favourite haunt of Ian Fleming. As a Vesper was on the menu I ordered one for each of us - my first James Bond cocktail I can remember having. Whether it is the same blend as the one in the books I don't know but it was rather good -{
I was imagining Fleming smoking here and wondering what he would have thought of the smoking ban ) . On mentioning the Fleming link to the waiter he told me that in those days Scott's was in the Haymarket and had moved to the present Mayfair location sometime after his death which was a disappointment. Putting that aside I was still happy to be in the spirit of the restaurant even if the wrong location.
So still trying to be Bondian I ordered beluga caviar followed by lobster thermidor and cheese to end the lunch. We also had Tattinger champagne which although was far from cheap was a positive bargain compared to the Dom Perignon. The beluga was spectacular and the lobster perfect - this really is a special place and we all enjoyed pretending to be Bond for a few hours.
Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
I ad my list too:
Berlin
Hamburg
Amsterdam
Malta
Lake como
Venice
London
Cádiz ( Cuba in dad)
Rome( visited all spectre Locations)
Sardinia
Prague
Karlovy Vary
New York
Paris
Glencoe/Glen Etive
There may be others, as we go to visit a lot of television locations, but the Bond ones that spring to mind are:
Heatherden Hall, Pinewood (various)
Reguliersgracht 36, Amsterdam (Diamonds Are Forever)
Stoke Poges Golf Club (Goldfinger, Tomorrow Never Dies)
Blenheim Palace (Spectre)
Glencoe (or is it Glen Etive?) (Skyfall)
Eilean Donan Castle (The World is Not Enough)
Nene Valley Railway (Octopussy/GoldenEye)
I ad my list too:
Berlin
Hamburg
Amsterdam
Malta
Lake como
Venice
London
Cádiz ( Cuba in dad)
Rome( visited all spectre Locations)
Next month I ad Sardinia to the list and in October Solden is planned.
The Naval base at Faslane. I was there just prior to the shooting of the above scene- after a talk in a committee room (totally unlike what was seen in TSWLM) we were taken onboard one of the subs for a tour.
Interesting because as being a naval base I was wondering if you went down on any one .......
...... Of the subs ( image it in a Kenneth Williams voice )
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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2.French Riveria-NSNA boat dock (I think it was the same)
3.NYC-Voodoo shop
4.Rome
5.London-SIS building, 10 Trinity Square, Whitehall, Trafalgar square, Somerset house, college of arms, DAD door, old royal naval college, Virgin Active Canary riverside club, Broadgate tower, Westminster station, Isle of dogs bridge, Ormamental canal, Millennium dome, Rule's restaurant, Duke's bar, I'm probably missing a few.
6. Scotland-Eilean Donan castle, Glencoe
Lake Como/Garda followed thereafter and it's easy to see why so many celebrities live there.
One of my favourite locations. Didn't go outside Whyte's estate though.
And I live quite close to the Kurfürstendamm in (former West) Berlin and seeing it in a Bond film is what I like most about Octopussy.
"- That is something to be afraid of."
Remarkable that was your experience. I found the locals very friendly and outgoing, we were treated very well indeed. The street food is very unimpressive but relatively cheap but I never had a bad experience in any of the restaurants, we ate in the Grand Canal hotel restaurant many times and went there for our wedding meal (again as did Clooney), the manager always remembered my name and we got complimentary prosecco and zabaglioni. We've returned to stay in the Hotel Saturnia every time the room we always ask for is the one I stayed in my first visit and 5 minutes after entering the room the sounds of one sole mio rang out being sung from a gondola that was in a small canal under my balcony, as I found because of the acoustics there they all sing it there! It's a nice experience once a day but 20 times a day over 14 days it wore a bit thin
- London
- Istanbul
- Switzerland
- Tokyo, even stayed at the hotel that is Osato's office in the movie YOLT
- Las Vegas
- Amsterdam
- New York
- Nice, France
- Puerto Rico
- New Orleans
- Bangkok
- Hong Kong (unfortunately not in the garden that was Hai Fat's house. It was closed.)
- Rio de Janeiro
- Monte Carlo
- Venice
- Paris
- Berlin
- San Francisco
- Vienna
- Miami
- Cuba
- Hamburg
- Scotland (Eilean Donan Castle, Glencoe)
- Lago di Como
- Sienna
- Shanghai
- Rome
Still on the list are:
- Switzerland location of OHMSS
- Jamaica
- Bahamas
1. Connery 2. Craig 3. Brosnan 4. Dalton 5. Lazenby 6. Moore
My wife and I had a fantastic time in Venice too. We went in September and stayed in a small B&B which was a beautiful palazzo with three bedrooms for guests, a tremendous spread for breakfast overlooking a canal, and a glass of prosecco to welcome us. It was also very inexpensive. The owners told us the best restaurants to eat in, places mostly frequented by locals, inexpensive and simply superb. When we said that we didn't think we'd take a gondola ride because we'd heard bad things about them, they encouraged us, told us the maximum amount to pay so that we didn't get ripped-off. We took all of their advice and it was a fantastic experience! I would return to Venice in a heartbeat and although I'd go straight to that B&B again, one day I want to stay in the Gritti Palace!
SF - Dragon Casino
M's Office
Mi6 Building
SP - Hoffler Klinik
Mi6 damaged building
Mexico Collapsing building
Train carriages
Managed to do that without having to leave one location
I also live in peterborough and just up the road is the nene vally railway where they filmed Octopussy.
Afghanistan
New York
San Francisco
Rome
Vienna
Berlin
Switzerland
Monaco (Still paying off the casino)
Croatia
Portugal
Spain
Bratislava
Prague
Montenegro
Amsterdam
Hong Kong
Tokyo
Corfu
London
Scotland
Aldershot (aka North Korea)
Still many more to do......
QUANTUM OF SOLACE Lake como quantum of solace (car chase in the tunnels)
LIVE AND LET DIE New York Oh cult voodoo shop east 65th street, 118th street Harlem and JFK airport, FDR drive
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER circus circus las vegas and Mccarran airport, Dover
DIE ANOTHER DAY secret door off Westminster bridge
GOLDENEYE Somerset house courtyard , for the st Petersburg square, greek cathedral interior and exterior Bayswater and Fulham , alpes maritimes
SKYFALL Whitehall, national gallery and the Turner picture room, glencoe Scotland , trinity house,
Primrose st broadgate tower,great Suffolk st,lake como, m's house
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH o2 arena
LIVING DAYLIGHTS Trafalgar Square (universal exports)
CASINO ROYALE Venice st marks square and back streets
GOLDFINGER iver Heath and pinewood studios
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY Beckton
OCTOPUSSY Greenwich maritime museum and M16 building, sothebys
SPECTRE riverwalk house, admiralty arch london
And SIS building and the bridge at Vauxhall
The A20 route followed in the book where Bond chases Drax in Chapter 20, Drax's Gambit, can still be followed. The geography described in the book is very accurate, as you'd expect from Fleming. From Charing there is a roundabout (not a fork like in the book) and then a steep rise up to a flat run of around one mile straight. It is all in the book and can still be followed just as it happens on the text Fleming wrote.
I had someone reading the book to me as I drove the route. It was a lot of fun on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
I did part of it at the weekend, and ended my journey at the Duck Inn country pub which was one of Fleming's haunts in the 1960s whenever he wanted to stop off for a quiet drink.
Yeah, and the guy stuck two fingers up at me.
I kept looking for the bit in the road where Drax runs them off.
Luckily I made it in one piece
I was imagining Fleming smoking here and wondering what he would have thought of the smoking ban
So still trying to be Bondian I ordered beluga caviar followed by lobster thermidor and cheese to end the lunch. We also had Tattinger champagne which although was far from cheap was a positive bargain compared to the Dom Perignon. The beluga was spectacular and the lobster perfect - this really is a special place and we all enjoyed pretending to be Bond for a few hours.
Berlin
Hamburg
Amsterdam
Malta
Lake como
Venice
London
Cádiz ( Cuba in dad)
Rome( visited all spectre Locations)
Sardinia
Prague
Karlovy Vary
New York
Paris
Glencoe/Glen Etive
Heatherden Hall, Pinewood (various)
Reguliersgracht 36, Amsterdam (Diamonds Are Forever)
Stoke Poges Golf Club (Goldfinger, Tomorrow Never Dies)
Blenheim Palace (Spectre)
Glencoe (or is it Glen Etive?) (Skyfall)
Eilean Donan Castle (The World is Not Enough)
Nene Valley Railway (Octopussy/GoldenEye)
The Naval base at Faslane. I was there just prior to the shooting of the above scene- after a talk in a committee room (totally unlike what was seen in TSWLM) we were taken onboard one of the subs for a tour.
...... Of the subs