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Yes the lamp post photo wasn't all I hoped it would be, I think the problem may of been that I asked a couple of Norwegian tourists to take my picture and their English wasn't good enough to be able to tell me that I looked like a prick standing like that! :)
I hope people from here have still continued to meet in person and do a bit of Bondcamp every now and then.
I really enjoyed Gib, thanks @steven88, my brother in law's family live out there (you might even know them, you all seem to know each other over there!), it's a great place to visit with so much history, though I didn't have enough time to visit all the locations used for TLD, maybe you could share your Gibraltar location info and experiences, it would be very much appreciated.
Turns out he met Timothy Dalton when he worked for immigration at the airport. Says he was quiet, but polite. He also got a card from one of the assistant produces, but can't remember who it was or where it is!
Also, my family saw some of the filming of the scenes up the Rock, as well as the scene where Bond goes flying over the edge with the villain. He also knows the guy who threw a dummy, who is meant to be the villain falling out of the car, out of a helicopter.
Yep, I was born a couple of years too late.
Royal Ascot
Played Golf at Stoke poges
Lots of places in London - I cycle past mi6 every day and work right by Leake street tunnels, used in Skyfall as the underground new mi6
Paris
The national gallery
Taj Mahal
Shanghai
Probably more...
I just got back from a quick jaunt down to Cambridge in New York and got to see the famous farmhouse owned by Ivar Bryce. Ian Fleming would summer there and often found inspiration for his novels, none more so than 'For Your Eyes Only, which is set there.
Later, friend to the Bryces (and the Kennedy's) Solange Batsell Herter owned the house.
It was quite something to see the house and surroundings and soak up the setting that Fleming enjoyed so much. It's down a dirt road and the last house before a dead end. How the hell did Bryce find it?!
Here is a picture I took:
I've also been to Hong Kong, Tokyo and James Bond Island in Thailand.
I wish I could've gone to Piz Gloria or one of the locations featured in FYEO.
Hong Kong and Amsterdam (for glaucoma treatment B-) ) are on my bucket list as well as Switzerland.
FRWL - Sirkeci station, the cistern, Hagia Sofia, Venice canals.
GF - London again.
TB - Well I've driven round Silverstone and been in Paris streets with a view of the Eiffel Tower but grasping at straws.
YOLT - Been to Hong Kong but as that's a studio can't count it.
OHMSS - Driven through the Swiss Alps but can't count that.
DAF - Amsterdam canals and the skinny bridge, flown to LAX numerous times, stayed at the Tropicana (most comfortable), been to Circus Circus (tacky).
LALD - Bourbon St, NYC, the Bayou.
TMWTGG - James Bond island, Peninsula hotel, hydrofoil between Macau and Hong Kong, Bangkok canals.
TSWLM - None. Well I've swam in the Med like Jaws at the end.
MR - LAX again, Venice, Tikal.
FYEO - Beckton, Cortina ski jump.
OP - Been past Sotheby's where Smithers parked, Taj Mahal (my sister stayed at the floating palace hotel on her honeymoon - bitch!), Checkpoint Charlie.
AVTAK - Ascot, Eiffel Tower, Seine embankment and bridges, City Hall, Fishermans Wharf, Golden Gate Bridge.
TLD - Rock of Gibraltar, Bratislava (even though they don't film there), Vienna, Tangier.
LTK - Key West and Hemingway House.
GE - Verzasca Dam (have done the jump), Monte Carlo casino, Hermitage and Palace Square.
TND - Oxford, Hamburg, live about 10 mins walk from Harmsworth Quays printers (where they filmed the warehouse scenes although ever been inside), Bangkok, Phang Nga Bay.
TWINE - Millenium Dome (and pretty sure my flat is in the background of the Thames chase), been past Maiden's Tower in a boat.
DAD - Hong Kong, Havana (although they didn't film there), Westminster bridge, Iceland.
CR - Various shooting locations in Karlovy Vary, Lake Como, Venice.
QOS - Floored it back and forth through the Malcesine tunnel for about half an hour, Siena, Barbican.
SF - Istanbul, Vauxhall bridge, Whitehall, Embankment station, Bond's lockup for the DB5 is about 15 mins walk from my flat, Glencoe and the Highlands.
SP - Museo Della Civilta Romana, Tiber embankment, Vatican, Ice Q restaurant, Soelden Bergbahn, Tangier, City Hall, Vauxhall, Embankment (while they were filming the finale).
Thanks for the tip, i will! i watched one or two of their podcasts before but didn't know about this
I've been to Iceland, Montenegro, Lake Como, Venice, Rome, Siena, Paris and the Eiffel Tower and so many Bond locations more.
If there was a location that I really would like to see it's Macau.
Impressive :)
As an added bonus was also allowed on the Batman set from the 1989 film which was still standing!
OP - Berlin
AVTAK - Paris
TLD - Vienna, Austrian/Slovak borderland
GE - St Petersburg. Am I the only from MI6 Community having walked there?
CR - Prague.
Sadly, I haven't visited Britain yet, as well as Bond hasn't visited Lithuania.
Current tensions with Russia in Eastern Europe would provide a great plot for a Bond film.
No. Lived there for 3 years. Sorry old chap better luck next time.
Great experience of OHMMS fans!
Bastard!
That's the one glaring omission on my list. Did you ski the black run from the top too?
I'm afraid not, I had no Willy Bogner to back me up.