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[Stephen Spotswood]

I vacationed in Jamaica some years ago. When I was walking through the Jamaican airport, which looked the same as the one in "Dr. No," I kept hearing that damn Bond theme song, and expecting to see Jack Lord popping up.

[Bon-san]

DAF: Las Vegas strip casinos, Hollywood backlot

LALD: New Orleans streets, UN Building/Harlem-New York City

TMWTGG: Peninsula Hotel-Bangkok, Hong Kong harbor

MR: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)

OP: Checkpoint Charlie (Berlin)

AVTAK: Eiffel Tower-Paris, Fisherman's Wharf/The Presidio/Golden Gate Bridge-San Francisco

TND: Streets of Berlin

TWINE: The River Thames-London

[Kees Boer]

I've been to

Amsterdam (DAF)
Piz Gloria (OHMSS)
Las Vegas (DAF)
Los Angeles (DAF)
Hamburg (TND)
London (I think every film)
New York (LALD)
Dover (DAF)
Key West (LTK)
San Francisco (AVTAK)
Paris (AVTAK, Thunderball)
Bahamas (Thunderball and some others)
Miami Beach (Goldfinger)

and...

Last but not least, there is a very, very small town 10 miles from here called Waldo. It's got it's fame from being the nation's biggest speedtrap and it's got a nice fleemarket. Bond took the train to Waldo and stopped there for a couple of minutes in Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming's book.

I've talked with people in Waldo about it and they can't even believe it!

Kees

[Arch Stanton]

Kentucky, though only somewhere within 50 miles of Fort Knox,(GF), Vegas(DAF), and San Francisco(AVTAK).

[onthetracksof007]

Hey Arch, did you ever visit the cemetary where you got your name from?
I was there last autumn.. an absolute magnificent place!

[Arch Stanton]

Sorry to say I havent. I'd love to go there, bring a couple friends and have a standoff. Though, I'm not even sure where it is. Somewhere in Spain, right?

[David Schofield]

From memory - and in no particular order -

Piz Gloria
New York
Key West
The Ritz
Scott's (the new one on Mount Street)
Villa d'Este (visited in one of the late Gardner's - Never Send Flower's, I think)
Paris - Fouquet's and Cafe de La Paix (see From A View to a Kill)
Monaco - the Casino and Hotel de Paris (see Role of Honour)
Marbella Club (Doubleshot)
Geneva - Hotel des Bergues (Goldfinger)
Miami Aiport (Goldfinger novel - drank a couple of double bourbons)
Heathrow airport (does that count!!)
Oh and in my much younger days, Pinewood and one of Dave Worrall's tours

Plus trips to places like London, Edinburgh, Brussels, Philadelphia, etc

[onthetracksof007]

Sorry to say I havent. I'd love to go there, bring a couple friends and have a standoff. Though, I'm not even sure where it is. Somewhere in Spain, right?

It's in the hills between Covarrubias en st. Domingo de los Silos.
In Covarrubias you can go horse riding (like we did) and travel there 'in style'... If you're interested, I have some photos from the site.

Although I am a huge Bond location fan, it was truly the most impressive site I have ever visited!

[Arch Stanton]

Sorry to say I havent. I'd love to go there, bring a couple friends and have a standoff. Though, I'm not even sure where it is. Somewhere in Spain, right?

It's in the hills between Covarrubias en st. Domingo de los Silos.
In Covarrubias you can go horse riding (like we did) and travel there 'in style'... If you're interested, I have some photos from the site.

Although I am a huge Bond location fan, it was truly the most impressive site I have ever visited!

That would be awesome to see some photos of it!

[onthetracksof007]

Well, I know is has got nothing to do with this topic, but...



It is funny to see how all the 'graves' still appear to be there.
(Hey, here's the Bond connection. Bond had trouble with Graves as well.. )

the bumps-that-used-to-be-graves have been overgrown and that's what makes them still visible, especially from a higher view point.

Now, let's return to this thread's topic..

[DaveBond21]

I've been to:-

London, including the DAD doorway on Westminster Bridge.

Oxford

Brent Cross carpark (TND carpark)

Venice

Paris - Eiffel Tower

Berlin

Hamburg (TND)

Meteora and Corfu (FYEO)

James Bond Island - Phuket - Bangkok (TMWTGG)

[Thunderfinger]

from the top of my memory:

The North Sea
Hamburg
Paris
spain
Morocco
Venice
Greece
Vienna
Switzerland
Amsterdam
London
New York

[The Richmond Spy]

Kentucky! I bet everyone else wishes they lived in this exotic location.

[DaveBond21]

OK, I can't find this topic anywhere at the moment>


Which Bond locations have you visited?

Here my list so far:-



James Bond Island - Thailand, from TMWTGG

DAD underground station door, Westminster Bridge, London.

Meteora - the monasteries from FYEO

Paris - Eiffel Tower, AVTAK

Venice - from FRWL, MR and CR

Amsterdam - from DAF

Tokyo, Japan - from YOLT

Bangkok, Thailand - from TMWTGG

Hamburg, Germany - from TND

Brent Cross Shopping Centre, London - the car park chase, TND

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How about you?????????

[streetjive]

Gee that last destination you mentioned must've been exciting...

I've been to quite a few you mentioned (Venice, Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, London), but perhaps the place I enjoyed the most purely for the whole 'Bond factor' was Corfu (from FYEO). They used a number of locations in the film -
the casino is a building called Achilleon Palace (the first official casino in Greece, coincidentally) and you can stroll through the statue-flanked courtyard where Bond and Kristatos dined and where the earlier scene (with Melina telling Bond she hasn't had the courage to go through her father's office)was filmed. Plus, there's Corfu Town itself, although I couldn't find St Cyrils... and the Vlacherna Monastery that juts out into the bay at Kanoni where Bond picks up Melina before they go shopping for the crew (this location, by the way, is absolutely breathtaking). I could go on...

Slightly off topic, I know, but visting certain Bond locations you often wonder whether the filmmakers did any justice to showcasing them - take Hamburg as a case in point. I think it's an absolutely stunning city yet they completely bastardised it in TND - save for one flimsy, half-decent shot of the port at dawn there is no indication that the film is actually set in Hamburg. What ever happened to establishing shots? Oh well, that's my personal gripe, although things are looking hopeful for CR (if that overhead shot of the castle at Loket in the Japanese trailer is anything to go by).

[DaveBond21]

Yes, went to Corfu, but didn't go near any of the Bond locations (I was 21, and there were bikini-clad British girls everywhere!!), so I didn't count it. Would have been great to see the locations you mentioned.

I agree about Hamburg in TND. The Carver building wasn't even in Hamburg. It's the IBM building at Bedfont Lakes in England.

[007Travis]

I have been to several. Will be in Gibraltar next August.

[DaveBond21]

I have been to several. Will be in Gibraltar next August.

Cool, 007Travis.


Did you have a favourite location out of those?


I must say I enjoyed James Bond Island, because the tour included the showing of TMWTGG on the bus on the way to the port.

[Vauxhall]

Here's my current list, probably forgotten a few though:

London, United Kingdom (several movies)
Venice, Italy (From Russia With Love, Moonraker, Casino Royale)
Paris, France (Thunderball, A View to a Kill)
Amsterdam, Netherlands (Diamonds Are Forever)
Madrid, Spain (For Your Eyes Only)
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy (For Your Eyes Only)
Berlin, Germany (Octopussy)
Gibraltar (The Living Daylights)
Bratislava, Slovakia (The Living Daylights)
Vienna, Austria (The Living Daylights)
Florida, United States (Licence to Kill)
St Petersburg, Russia (Goldeneye)
Epsom Downs, United Kingdom (Goldeneye) ~ St Petersburg airport
Iceland (Die Another Day)
Prague, Czech Republic (Casino Royale)

[jaguar007]

London
paris
Bahamas
Carribean
San Francisco
Miami
Mexico
monico
New York
Las Vegas

More specific locations, Cafe Martinique (TB), Eifel Tower(AVTAK), Fisherman's Wharf(AVTAK), I stayed next to the hotel in Nassau they they blew up the room in NSNA, Have stayed at The Whyte House (Las Vegas Hilton) have been to Circus Circus (used the same clown gun as Jill St. John) and Tropicana (DAF)

[DaveBond21]

Cool lists. Did anyone else feel like James Bond in these places? I did, LOL!!!

I forgot about Berlin...that is another one I have been to.

[Double-0-7]

In the Bahamas I dove the skeletal remains of the mocked-up bomber from Thunderball. It looked like an underwater jungle gym and even knowing what it looked like in the movie it was still hard to imagine it as a jet.

Not far from it we also dove the same sunken ship as Bond and Fatima in NSNA. It looked the same as in the movie and was a great dive.

Yes, I felt very much like Bond as that sunken ship came into view. I was humming the Bond theme underwater, and highly recommend the dive!

[DavidSomerset]

London (All movies)
Venice, Italy (FRWL, MR)
Paris, France (AVTAK)
Amsterdam, Netherlands (DAF)
Florida, United States (LTK) - Studied there - Yeah, Go Gators!
Phang Nga Bay, Phuket Thailand - (TMWTGG)
Bangkok, Thailand - (TMWTGG)
India (OP)

[DaveBond21]

I'd like to go to India one day.

Also Rio is on my list.

[DaveBond21]

Surely more of you have been to some of the locations??????

[DaveBond21]

Hoping to go to the US next year, and will visit San Francisco.

[Double-0-7]

Surely more of you have been to some of the locations??????

In addition to diving the James Bond Reef in the Bahamas years ago I plan to visit the home of DAF for DTBB2. Does that count?

[Forward Look]

I've been to Hemingway House in Key West, Florida USA (used for LTK), and the Fountainbleu Hilton Hotel in Miami Beach (the beginning of the main part of GF). That shot of the I-95 freeway used in CR is familiar to me but I don't recognize the buildings in the background. Only at Hemingway House there was a guide pointing out the exact locations that the LTK crew used to get their shots for the film. Hopefully I will be able to go to the Bahamas and Jamaica to see those locations also.

[SilencedPPK]

Venice, Italy. I was there one month after they shot the scenes for Casino Royale. Too bad I missed it!! Anyway, that was a great place. St. Mark's Square is my favorite place. You can feed the pigeons, and it's actually really fun. I'm the ultimate tourist, I will admit. I also went to Paris, France and walked up the Eiffel Tower where Roger Moore chased Mayday. It was amazing.

I have also been to Las Vegas.

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[Bryce (003)]

London, Los Angles(DUH!), Paris, Monte Carlo, Amsterdam, Scotland (all over), San Francisco, Washington DC, Miami, Bahamas, Texas, Vegas, Toronto, Chicago.

I'll think if I missed any.

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