What Bond locations have you been to?

broadshoulder · August 2014

I don't know whether this has been done before but what Bond locations have you got too?

FRWL - St Sophia and the underground cistern
GF - Fountaineblue in Miami
DAF - The Old Fremont St and Circus Circus in Las Vegas
LALD - Bourbon Street in N'awlins
TMWTGG - the klongs of Bangkok
MR - Grande Canale - Venice
MR - Iguassu Falls and the Sugarloaf, Rio
FYEO - The Meteora, Thessaly
FYEO - Corfu
OP - Berlin
AVTAK - Paris and San Francisco
TLD - Vienna
TWINE - the Thames Chase
CR - Venice again
QoS - Siena and around
SF - Shanghai and the circle line

Anyone else got any others?

AlphaOmegaSin · August 2014

The Woodland Scenes in DAD were shot within Ten Minutes of my Nan's old House -{

Thunderpussy · August 2014

Only a couple for me, The door to the station for lost agents
and the entrance to Westminster tube station. I have been
Swimming off the coast of Portugal ( not the same beach as Bond
But it's the same ocean, so close enough for me ).
I've Been on the Thames in a Boat ( full of tourists ) although in my
Mind it was the "Q" boat.

)
It was funny on my trip to London, I dragged the wife to all the places
I knew from " Spooks" etc.

) She gave me some odd looks, given some
Of the things I was photographing.

broadshoulder · August 2014

I am quite old you know? Thats how I have stacked them up

Surprisingly MR and FYEO did well. Istanbul featured in three.

Blackleiter · August 2014

broadshoulder wrote:

I don't know whether this has been done before but what Bond locations have you got too?

FRWL - St Sophia and the underground cistern
GF - Fountaineblue in Miami
DAF - The Old Fremont St and Circus Circus in Las Vegas
LALD - Bourbon Street in N'awlins
TMWTGG - the klongs of Bangkok
MR - Grande Canale - Venice
MR - Iguassu Falls and the Sugarloaf, Rio
FYEO - The Meteora, Thessaly
FYEO - Corfu
OP - Berlin
AVTAK - Paris and San Francisco
TLD - Vienna
TWINE - the Thames Chase
CR - Venice again
QoS - Siena and around
SF - Shanghai and the circle line

Anyone else got any others?

I have been to a few of yours (Fountaineblue in Miami, Bourbon Street in New Orleans, San Francisco, Circus Circus in Las Vegas), plus Harlem in New York from LALD.

Thunderpussy · August 2014

I'd say most of us when planning a holiday or break, have Bond
Locations in the back of our minds.

always shaken · August 2014

Fetiye =Skyfall
Wall st (car crash in LALD New York
Corfu =FYEO
Paris=TB and AVTAK
the O2 =TWINE
Virgin active sports club pool at Canary wharf =Skyfall =
Dunns river falls Janaica =DR NO
Paradise island Bahamas =Casino Royal
Whitehall London =SF
Rolt street Deptford London =SF
Carrara Tuscany =QOS
Rome = next Bond film

CmdrAtticus · August 2014

Piz Gloria during Christmas holiday/Zurich/Pontresina (OHMSS)
Venice/Gritti Palace/Lido island (FRWL/Risico)
Used to spend a weekend in Rome every 4-6 weeks when I was in the Navy
Lake Cuomo (CR)
Paris/stayed at Terminus Nord and ate at Bond's Paris cafes (FYEO story)
London/Ritz Hotel/ate in Fleming's haunts like Scotts
Greece/Meteora (FYEO film)
Bahamas/Jamaica
Key West/Tampa/Miami
New York (Diamond district/St. Regis hotel/21 Club/Sardis/Oyster Bar - a Fleming favorite
Northern Vermont (FAVTAK story)
San Francisco (FAVTAK film)

AdamOmega · August 2014

Ocho Rios, Jamaica:
Dr. No - Dunn's River Falls in Jamaica, where Bond and Honey Ryder are seen bathing. Also pretty sure I saw the Crab Key compound.

Live And Let Die

Las Vegas, Nevada
Diamonds Are Forever - Spotted the Circus Circus casino while driving down the Vegas strip.

New York City, New York
Live And Let Die

Miami, Florida:
Goldfinger
Casino Royale - Miami International Airport, which looks nothing like the one they used in Casino Royale. I think they filmed it in the Bahamas?

Paris, France:
Thunderball
Moonraker
A View to a Kill - Scaled the Eiffel Tower!

Amsterdam, Netherlands:
Diamonds Are Forever

San Francisco, California:
A View to a Kill - Flew over the Golden Gate Bridge while listening to the Duran Duran theme song. -{

Blackleiter · August 2014

Blackleiter wrote:

broadshoulder wrote:

I don't know whether this has been done before but what Bond locations have you got too?

FRWL - St Sophia and the underground cistern
GF - Fountaineblue in Miami
DAF - The Old Fremont St and Circus Circus in Las Vegas
LALD - Bourbon Street in N'awlins
TMWTGG - the klongs of Bangkok
MR - Grande Canale - Venice
MR - Iguassu Falls and the Sugarloaf, Rio
FYEO - The Meteora, Thessaly
FYEO - Corfu
OP - Berlin
AVTAK - Paris and San Francisco
TLD - Vienna
TWINE - the Thames Chase
CR - Venice again
QoS - Siena and around
SF - Shanghai and the circle line

Anyone else got any others?

I have been to a few of yours (Fountaineblue in Miami, Bourbon Street in New Orleans, San Francisco, Circus Circus in Las Vegas), plus Harlem in New York from LALD.

I left off Nassau, Bahamas.

Strangeways · August 2014

Thunderpussy wrote:

I'd say most of us when planning a holiday or break, have Bond
Locations in the back of our minds.

Hahaha. That's so funny. I certainly do!

lilusako · August 2014

DAF:
New York - Walked by 21 Club, had dinner at Sardis.
Las Vegas - I've stayed at the Circus Circus

)

YOLT - Himeji Castle.
I missed going to the New Otani Hotel during my last trip to Tokyo, but it was only a 17 hour layover and I had accidentally spent too much time at Disney Sea 8-)

Next time I'm visiting my folks for an extended period in San Francisco, I hope to visit the Dunsmuir-Hellman Historic Estate and the Lefty O'Doul Drawbridge from AVTAK.

lueth2048 · August 2014

I've been to:

New York City
Bourbon Street
San Francisco
Phuket and the James Bond Islands
Bankok

broadshoulder · April 2015

bumps this one

)

Matt S · April 2015

I've seen most of the New York locations from LALD. I work a few blocks from where the New York Filet of Soul restaurant in LALD was, but the building was torn down decades ago. I've driven down the FDR Drive where Bond's drive was killed. I never went to the "Worldport" airport terminal at JFK Airport where Bond arrives in New York, though I drove past it many times. Sadly it was demolished two years ago, but it was supposedly a terrible terminal anyway.

I've visited the outsides of many of the London locations, like the Old War Office and the SIS Building.

Though not featured in the films, I've visited the bespoke shops of Turnbull & Asser and Frank Foster, where a number of Bond actors visited to have shirts made. I used the services of the latter. I also went to Doug Hayward's shop, where Roger Moore had his later Bond suits made.

AlphaOmegaSin · April 2015

I'd love to visit Venice and see the Area with the Museum from MR -{ I wonder if it's still open?

MilleniumForce · April 2015

Been to O2 and Big Ben, featured in TWINE. And I've been through Charing Cross station, featured in SF. Does it count if I live about 20 minutes away?

)

Higgins · April 2015

I've just had tea in the Peninsula Hotel

DutchJamesBondFan · April 2015

Last summer I've been to London and we visited al lot of locations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPnICaBjN00
And I've been to the Bondlocations in:
Amsterdam
Istanbul
Garda Lake
Paris

AlphaOmegaSin · April 2015

Very nice {[]

Spoff · April 2015

I don't have many on my list, but have been to the following:

Eiffel Tower: AVTAK
San Francisco/ Golden Gate Bridge: AVTAK
Himeji castle: YOLT
Las Vegas: DAF
New York: LALD
Whitehall, London: SF
Also going to Rome in September so will visit a couple of SPECTRE ones

Also some non-Bond related ones:

Hotel Regine, Paris: Bourne Identity
Cafe Des Doux Moulins, Paris: Amelie
Bar Blue Sky, Montmartre Paris: Ronin
Matmata, Tunisia: Star Wars
Chott el Djerid, Tunisia: Star Wars
Kairouan medina, Tunisia: Raiders of the lost Ark
About 100 different film locations in London
About another 100 in NYC (In fact, NYC is just like a huge film-set ajb007/lol )

Napoleon Plural · April 2015

I don't know whether this has been done before but what Bond locations have you got too?

There are times when a Double O is out of place...

broadshoulder · April 2015

Dear spoff,

What was hemeji castle like. It looks gorgeous.

Barbel · April 2015

broadshoulder wrote:

bumps this one )

Please don't.

broadshoulder · April 2015

Barbel wrote:

broadshoulder wrote:

bumps this one )

Please don't.

Oh sorry

Lady Rose · April 2015

Been to a few. Here are some of them ....

OP .... Taj Lake Palace, Lake Pichola, Udaipur, India. 'Floating Palace'

TMWGG ...Damnoen Saduak Floating Market nr Bangkok

GF .... Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire

And the most glamorous of all ?? Brent Cross Shopping Centre where they filmed the car chase in TND.

)

) (and I was there when they where actually filming but couldn't get near

)

Firemass · April 2015

Here's my list:

* Piz Gloria/Bond World last October in Switzerland. (Stayed in Interlaken for that part of the journey)

*London: Die Another Day door by the bridge, lamp-post for Lazenby promo shot, MI6 headquarters,
Thames river, Sotheby's Auction and Bond in Motion exhibit.

*Jokulsarlon Glacial Lagoon in Iceland for A View to a Kill pre-title sequence. (and D.A.D too I suppose

)

*San Francisco: Fisherman's Warf, City Hall, Golden Gate Bridge … I enjoyed some quiche as well.

*Berlin - Bombed out church and Checkpoint Charlie.

and then some more general visits to Las Vegas, NYC/ Harlem, Paris, and Hamburg.

I feel like Piz Gloria is the best place to visit because it's also devoted to 007, whereas some other locations have no mention of Bond whatsoever.

AlphaOmegaSin · April 2015

I'm determined to visit Piz Gloria one Day

DEFIANT 74205 · April 2015

I've been to The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong.

But that's it so far. I'd love to go to other Bond locations one day. Hoping to visit London some time within the next few years.

Gala Brand · April 2015

New York, Las Vegas, New Orleans, San Francisco, Kingston, Venice, Geneva, Miami, London, Kent, Mexico City (SPECTRE), Paris, Key West, The Bahamas, Scotland.

Spoff · April 2015

broadshoulder wrote:

Dear spoff,

What was hemeji castle like. It looks gorgeous.

Fantastic! it is absolutely stunning. It is extremely well preserved and the inside is just as gorgeous as the outside.

It's bloody huge as well! you don't realise the scale until you are actually there. When you exit the train station at Himeji town, there is a straight avenue that runs right to the castle at the end, it is a very impressive first sight.

I also visited Matsumoto castle, which is smaller, but just as wonderful.

All of Japan is just mesmerising, I spent three weeks touring around and it was the best holiday I have ever had -{

I would very much recommend a visit

Here is an image of Himeji that I took from the approaching road, imagine trying to storm that?.

What Bond locations have you been to?

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