If you could visit any Bond-related place, where would you go?
Number24
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Let's imagine you could go to any Bond-related place, all expenses paid, for one week. It has to be a real place, so no space station behind the moon. It also has to be as it is in real life, so Octopussy's Island is probably not full of beautiful women. The only departure from reality is that there won't be too many tourists, making places like James Bond Island more liveable.
Where would you go?
I'm trying to decide between Goldeneye in Jamaica or Venice, Italy.
OK, I decide people can pick up to three places.
Where would you go?
I'm trying to decide between Goldeneye in Jamaica or Venice, Italy.
OK, I decide people can pick up to three places.
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Btw Venice is beautiful -{ -{
2) (If I'm allowed this, cos it's a bit of a cheat and possibly doesn't exist as such anymore) The Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris
3) The Ama village, including a walk up the volcano
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Could be dangerous. Although I think Number24's middle
Name is Danger.
Piz Gloria for me.
it has one of the Carribeans best golf courses .Its a great place to stay , beach is a bit crap but the pools make up for it ,great place to use as a base for Dunns River falls (Dr No) and the rest of Bond sites ,
I was just skimming through Dr. No after reading that Goldeneye book.
The house was inspired by a number of similar abandoned mansions that really were in a state of decay when Fleming moved to Jamaica, and the legends, superstition and gossip that surrounded those ruins.
But I was just thinking reading the long passages where Honeychile explains her origin story, that it is the hottest buildup to the expected Bond-gets-the-girl ending in all of Fleming's books. She keeps going on about all the weird wildlife she surrounds herself with, she even says as a child she would walk around with snakes on her shoulders scaring away the superstitious plantation workers, and Bond has to keep smacking himself "not now, dammit, save the world first, then get the girl!".
Fleming was really indulging in a lot of his personal fantasies about his adopted home when he wrote that character. Therefor that room beneath the ruins of the Great House, fictional as it may be, is arguably the ultimate place-to-be in the whole Bond fantasy.
one from the Connery era - the sewer beneath Instanbul, assuming that was a real location.
I don't want to spend a week in the sewer, understand, theres a lot of nice beaches and hotels a normal person would pick first, but I do get excited by municipal infrastructure projects and that one's a beaut!
one from the early Moore era - Scaramanga's island and the surrounding group, and that would be a genuinely nice holiday
there's not really anything from the John Glenn-era or the Brosnan-era that stands out, so...
one from the Craig era! that abandoned island where Sylva had his evil headquarters.
They shoulda spent the last hour of the film exploring that place instead of returning to boring old London. That one was real wasn't it?
It certainly is! It’s called Hashima Island:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashima_Island
Paradise Island (The Bahamas) - Thunderball
Ocho Rios, St. Ann, (Jamaica) - Dr. No
Although I've been fortunate enough to visit a few of my bucket list locations I still have plenty to get through! So I would say;
1) Nassau
2) Orient Express
3) Pyramids
Oh and just in case my Fairy Godmother is reading this;
4) Cala di Volpe
5) Rio
6) Kirishima
7) Hong Kong
I could go on..
Also very interested in seeing Istanbul.
Great topic!
If you don't like it, you can always Blame it on Rio :v
For me, it would simply be impossible to choose from Bond's well travelled passport but if I did I'd have to narrow it down to these 5.
-->Japan. I'd take full advantage of the recent "On the trails of 007" book that was released to visit at least some of the locations, but apart from the Bond connection, it's a country I've always had a hankering to visit for the culture, places and well...automobiles.
-->Venice...for the reason that it had been featured in not one but 3 Bond movies, to varying degrees, but mainly due to its screen-time in Moonraker does it make my list, ignoring the fact that due to global warming it might be left as an underwater expansion for Stromberg's Atlantis.
-->The Bahamas would make for a holiday to remember, as I would cite Thunderball...and quite obviously Casino Royale as some of my favourite Bond movies.
-->San Francisco. While a certain inspector would be better known for the city of San Francisco, A View To A Kill made great use of the city's iconic landmarks and one of the only American cities that has stuck to my memory ever since watching Roger's final outing.
but all of the above pale in comparison to the one and only Piz Gloria, the top of the world, the Bond-iest location of them all.
I'd love to learn how to ski down a mountain so that I could follow at least part of Lazenby-Bond's route.
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Only teasing....