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  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    Posts: 987
    Esprit wrote:
    @saunders thanks for all of the wonderful pictures! They're wonderful.

    Nice try on the OHMSS re-creation. ;)

    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! :)
  • retrokittyretrokitty The Couv
    Posts: 380
    Awesome pics. Great to see some familiar locations. Brings back great memories I have of visiting those places with friends from this forum years ago during Bondcamp 1.0. :)

    I hope people from here have still continued to meet in person and do a bit of Bondcamp every now and then.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    Some more fantastic pictures there saunders! Thanks for sharing them as they are a real treat for all of us to see!
  • steven88steven88
    Posts: 21
    @Saunders Just seen your pictures of Gibraltar from 1 September. I'm from Gib! It's a running joke amongst us Gibraltarians that Bond falls of one side of the Rock and ends up on the other! Hope you enjoyed your visit here :)
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,976
    @saunders, many thanks for the pictures! They were entertaining to look at, must have been a lot of fun to revisit those locations.
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    Posts: 987
    Thanks for all your supportive comments chaps, I know some of you probably think I'm a bit of a sad anorak visiting all these locations but I just find it immensely exciting to walk in the celluloid James Bond's footsteps, hopefully I'll be visiting more locations in the near future and will keep you posted.

    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.
  • steven88steven88
    edited October 2013 Posts: 21
    @saunders I probably do know them we are a pretty small place! Glad you enjoyed the visit. I'd definitely be interested in sharing all the local TLD info I have, I'm quite busy with work at the moment, but when I have a spare moment I think I'll take a day off to go take pictures and share the information I have :)
  • steven88steven88
    Posts: 21
    Well, following on from my previous post, I wasn't actually born when the film came out :( (I was a year too late on that front!) However, my dad has quite a few interesting memories:

    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.

  • Matt007Matt007
    edited October 2013 Posts: 1,314
    Never been anywhere specifically because of the Bond connection but...

    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...
  • 007InVT007InVT Classified
    edited November 2013 Posts: 893
    007InVT wrote:
    Just finished reading FYEO. Fleming did his research and knew Northern Vermont. He used to visit his friend Ivar Bryce at Black Hole Hollow Farm (quite the name!) I think in Cambridge, NY.

    In the book the action centers around Echo Lake in Vermont, Enosburg Falls and Frelighsburg.

    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?!

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    Here is a picture I took:

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  • DeJunkanoooDeJunkanooo Banned
    edited November 2013 Posts: 25
    AVTAK, San Francisco. Been there, been across the golden gate bridge a few times in my life. Really takes you into the movie you can even imagine Zorin plummeting to his death. Sadly, in reality there are many poor souls who decide to take their own lives by jumping off. They've tried to install a safety net but I guess the city doesn't care and doesn't want to foot the bill (left wing really doesn';t care for human life). But of course, it still looks exactly the same as it appears in A View to a Kill. Underrated film in my opinion. Love to get out there to Crab Key someday.
  • ForYourEyesOnlyForYourEyesOnly In the untained cradle of the heavens
    Posts: 1,984
    Off the top of my head, I've been to the Thames, the Eiffel Tower, the Millennium Dome, Buckingham Palace, Venice (and St. Marks Square), Times Square, Vienna, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco, and the north Sardinian Coast, which I believe is driven along by Bond in TSWLM (or is at least visible).

    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.
  • ForYourEyesOnlyForYourEyesOnly In the untained cradle of the heavens
    Posts: 1,984
    Can't remember.
  • tanaka123tanaka123
    Posts: 4,325
    I've been to the Thames, Big Ben/Houses of Parliament, Blenheim Palace (Spectre - ext of Spectre board meeting), Epsom Race Course (The Queen's Stand used as ext. for St Petersburg airport in GoldenEye), Blaydon (used in The Living Daylights)
  • MayDayDiVicenzoMayDayDiVicenzo Here and there
    Posts: 5,080
    I've walked the length of the Millennium Dome (i.e. on top of it). It's quite a trek.
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
    Posts: 4,116
    London various times places; New Orleans, LA; Key West, FL; NY,NY; California various; New Mexico (tank stage where film TND).. the state but not exact location. Berlin but did Bond film there or close?

    Hong Kong and Amsterdam (for glaucoma treatment B-) ) are on my bucket list as well as Switzerland.
  • 00Agent00Agent Any man who drinks Dom Perignon '52 can't be all bad.
    Posts: 5,185
    oh i am so happy i found this threat, i am a certified bond location junkie :). i am searching specifically for Bond movie locations all around the world for the last 2 years . I have been in London, Bilbao, Rome, Hamburg (my current home), Berlin, Vienna. This year i am planning Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam... we'll see how much i can manage. Also i was in Panama city 2 years ago and i had no idea that Quantum of Solace was shot there, so i walked down some of the sets without even knowing it, and i took a picture of Greenes Party location totally by accident, i only found out half a year later it was used for the Party scene... crazy coincidence. can i upload pictures here?
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    Posts: 10,591
    Nothing special. Paris and NYC. I stood in the exact spot Roger Moore stood 30 years before at the Eiffel Tower.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    DN - Just London.
    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).


  • 00Agent00Agent Any man who drinks Dom Perignon '52 can't be all bad.
    edited March 2016 Posts: 5,185
    Birdleson wrote: »

    @00Agent , I don't know if you listen to the James Bond Radio podcast, or watch their Youtube channel, but those guys are really into that, as well. They also ask for listener/viewer stories and photos. You may want to connect with them They also have a Facebook page.

    Thanks for the tip, i will! i watched one or two of their podcasts before but didn't know about this
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
    Posts: 9,020
    I guess the most iconic place I've been is the Piz Gloria, in fact I have been there several times, but then I'm Swiss...

    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.

  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    A number of locations in London!
  • tanaka123tanaka123
    Posts: 4,325
    Just thought of another one I've been to, Checkpoint Charlie as used in Octopussy.
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
    Posts: 4,116
    TheWizardOfIce wrote: »
    DN - Just London.
    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).


    Impressive :)
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
    Posts: 4,007
    Been all over Pinewood Studios in 1991 at the James Bond convention! Including the 007 stage and the gardens where Grant stalks the fake Bond in FRWL.

    As an added bonus was also allowed on the Batman set from the 1989 film which was still standing!
  • W_PPKW_PPK
    Posts: 172
    DAF - Amsterdam
    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.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    W_PPK wrote: »
    GE - St Petersburg. Am I the only from MI6 Community having walked there?

    No. Lived there for 3 years. Sorry old chap better luck next time.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited April 2016 Posts: 7,134
    Recently went to Piz Gloria and the Bond museum that is situated there. Had lunch in the Alpine room too.

    Great experience of OHMMS fans!
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    GoldenGun wrote: »
    Recently went to Piz Gloria and the Bond museum that is situated there. Had lunch in the Alpine room too.

    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?
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    Posts: 7,134
    TheWizardOfIce wrote: »
    GoldenGun wrote: »
    Recently went to Piz Gloria and the Bond museum that is situated there. Had lunch in the Alpine room too.

    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.
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