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And wasn't the railway a location for GoldenEye too? Although I guess the bridge doesn't look much like a tunnel any more!
Yes, I originally assumed that they used the same tunnel that they used in Octopussy but it turns out they used a bridge and just heavily dressed it so it looks nothing like it in real life. So much so that had I take a photo and compared it to the reference pics no one would believe it was the same location.
However, you might be familiar with the the same bridge if you know the Queen music video for Breakthru. It's the very same bridge that they used for the train to crash through the wall with the words 'NOW' written on it.
Queen - Breakthru (Official Video)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CEjU9KVABao
There is a scene in Goldeneye where the train rushes through an empty station
That was the white elephant project that summed up, early on, the hubris of the Blair era of British politics.
The reason for my post though is that I wanted to give everyone planning to visit Prague a head's up regarding the Danube House. It's the building seen at the very start of Casino Royale which serves as Dryden's office. Being in Prague I had to go there and I'm sure a lot of Bond fans would have it on their list too. So anyways, I was taking photos from the position of the camera in the film but as soon as I started recording a video I was approached by security who had been standing near the entrance. The gentleman politely told me to stop with the reason being that the Danube House is private property and that the company within the office doesn't exactly approve of it. He didn't ask me to delete the images but wouldn't allow me to take any more. (Bear in mind I had only been there two minutes so there were few images.)
Funnily enough, I asked him how often he has to intervene to stop fans from taking pictures of the building and his answer was that it happens on a near-daily basis. XD They can't put up a "no photos" sign because they don't have permission I don't think, so security is basically stuck reliving the same thing everyday. I figured that I might as well post about this because they were pretty nice about the whole thing and tbh I don't want us Bond fans to be seen as disrespectful. (Some fans supposedly keep taking photos after being confronted.)
So if you're ever thinking about visiting the Danube House please bear this in mind.
New York, obviously.
Washington also has the International Spy Museum, which includes some Bond stuff, though alas it was closed when I was there.
Other possibilities below, the address detail is from IMDb. if you go as far as NYC
New York City:
Book locales
New York
Vermont:
Virginia:
South to Florida would actually offer fun locations from GF, LTK.
Recent travel had me in London for the first time with a trusted agent. A very fine time collecting Bond locations, and realizing there are more to see in the future.
A highlight from my last day was having the Rules Restaurant come to mind from Spectre and walking a couple blocks to it from Trafalgar Square. It didn't seem reservations were absolutely required.
Absorbing the outside and entering what's advertised as London's oldest restaurant, I asked for a table. The nice man looked at his schedule and projected an opening in about an hour. I'd wait for that. Then he looked over his shoulder and down the aisle and declared a gentleman had moved on and there was a table open for me.
Walking in, I recognized it as one table to the right of the painting Mallory sat in front of having his lunch, as approached by Moneypenny and Q. A group of 4 sat in front of the painting, I thought it possible I was sitting at the same single table used by M himself.
I had a fine meal from the menu, lamb. It was not skewered.
As I finished, walking out I took two interior photos. One shows the painting as a reference and my table to the right. Then a longer shot.
From Spectre
My images.
Fantastic, thank you. We won't make it to Florida this time.
I was wondering if I could talk my girlfriend into a hike from Frelighsburg, Canada to Echo Lake, Vermont to kill the Nazi leader of a Cuban hit squad. She'd need some bowhunting lessons first though...
And of course the Reptile House at Central Park Zoo is high on my list..
And Rules is on my London list. Your post strengthend the resolve on that one @RichardTheBruce
Yes, you're one up on me there - I still haven't been. I was waiting for the right occasion, but maybe I'll take a leaf out of your book and make it a spontaneous visit!
In Budapest Hungary, I found it easy to search out a venue from Charlie Higson's On His Majesty's Secret Service, published May this year.
Specifically: the 360 Bar.
https://www.360bar.hu/
https://justbudapest.com/360-bar-budapest/
My experience: late afternoon/early evening entered address Andrássy út 39, 1061 at the ground level, and discussion started regarding a reservation. Last minute as I am and catching things on the fly, I gratefully paid the cover charge and got a wristband.
Elevator to the top, coming out of the lift a beautiful lady asked for my reservation--I raised my forearm to display the wristband as if it was the reverse side of my Spectre ring granting entry. Got a table for myself along the streetside wall, for the view and to take in the rest of the venue during my time on site.
Ordered a martini and their pulled pork sandwich from the menu. Took a couple photos of some props I brought with me for the occasion. (The igloo domes were advertised as a Sunday fixture and were not present when I was there on a weekday.)
My photos.
Tempus fugit.
Here's to Us.
Images on line.
There's actually another location local to Budapest I searched out related to a Bond film, if someone would like to venture on what that would be.
And having taken a look at the delights of Budapest, I now want to visit the thermal baths.
So GoldenEye's backdrop to the nighttime meeting of Trevelyan and Bond (also in the games) was inspired by the collection of Communist-era monuments at Memento Park outside Budapest.
Opposite the entrance area to Memento Park there are the remaining boots of a Communist statue to tell the tale. Also represented inside its small museum display.
On the way to the statues, a familiar type automobile is on display. Photographed below with a prop I brought along.
An outright doppelgänger, compare to GoldenEye.
https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_4317-ZAZ-965-A-Zaporozhets-1963.html
https://www.tiqets.com/en/budapest-attractions-c68199/tickets-for-memento-park-trabant-tour-p1029873/
The Lenin brass plaque goes unpolished I noticed.
And another photo op with one of the more famous statues.
Nice pictures! I was there around 2004-5, iirc. And I'm wondering, could it be that those boots were still filled with Lenin at the time? Or is that a different statue? It looks so familliar. The running worker and the entrance I sure remember. Come to think of it, wasn't there a statue with a car(t) drawn by horses, but they all are flat instead of proper statues?
Anyway, I visited the spa's as well, they're amazing. Especially when you only had 2 hours of sleep and a hangover.
It was one of my more adventurous travels with a group of students, doing everything as cheap as possible. They'd booked our train trip mostly by local trains to keep the price down. However, in the year of visit, Hungary became a member of the EU, and the last train out of the city didn't run anymore. Nobody told us, and we had tickets for that train (we got there before the 1st of may, the day of joinng). So, the more seasoned of us settled down in the station with our backpacks, ready for a cold night at the station. The station chief however, wouldn't have it. He put an empty passenger car behind the mail-train. We were not allowed to use light, as the train controller might see there were people on board. When we got to the border station, there was no train to be seen Only our carriage and a completely empty station. So, we settled down in the new station, sleeping in corners, and cought the first train across the border to Austria.
p.s. did you try an 'authentic Soviet Restaurant'? We did, and got thecorresponding (lack of) service..
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LOL!
This, seen at an open-air aviation museum in the Czech Republic a few years ago, also made me think of GE. He'd clearly just been plonked there for lack of a better spot.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/d2c029f8ce9dbb130cdc28c527f236cc/6cc97f49e9cc0cee-f2/s2048x3072/e1bbfbe52b77b9b6a24ad393c0550c432d98b215.pnj
The thermal baths would have hit the spot after the day of walking, if I get a second chance I'll search that out plus the Russian Restaurant experience. During other travel the ones down the street from my hotel in Berlin were kind of intimidating, though.
I don't recall the cart and horses straight off, but this sort of flattened sculpture from the park made an impression. (Not my picture below)