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Channel chasers spectre ghost movie#

During the 60s and 70s, the Bond movies helped open the world to locations and sights that were a million miles away from our day to day lives, but with faster and expanded travel services the world has become smaller when it comes to travelling and the costs dramatically reduced with international travel no longer restricted to the rich and famous, everywhere today is accessible, it’s the traveller’s choice how much effort he or she wishes to make to visit a particular destination.Īs we approach the 25th Bond movie release of No Time To Die next month with excitement and anticipation, Jamaica, Italy, Norway, Scotland, New Zealand are amongst the countries listed as locations for the latest movie. Through the past fifteen years or so I’ve used the Bond film locations as my basis for travelling the world with my annual air travel peaking at 120,000 km a couple of years ago visiting the Caribbean, USA, China, Thailand, Japan and Europe. Thailand is another story, planes, elephants, Thai Boxing, Tuk-Tuks, long-tail motor boats retracing the film locations from The Man with the Golden Gun and Tomorrow Never Dies, but is just an example of my left of centre choices for my choice of holidays.

At age nine, a trip to the moon was as realistic aspiration as finding myself on that island, but fast forward forty years and I found myself standing on that very island having researched the making of the movie and having travelled across Thailand to achieve my dream. I remember going to see The Man with the Golden Gun at my local cinema at the tender age of nine years, one of my vivid memories was falling in love with the Scaramanga Island portrayed in the movies as his personal Island in the South China Seas and wishing I lived in such an isolated home, with sand, sea and tranquillity. Always say yes, otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life” – Ian Fleming Since the mid noughties I had taken an alternative approach to finding the perfect holidays during a typical year and with my kids now grown up and not being tied down to the school holiday calendar it opened the opportunities for me to explore the world and try some destinations off the beaten track. The travel industry begins it’s campaign over the festive period with beach scenes, palm trees and families relaxing by the pool before the festive turkey has digested in the system, personally I’ve found the bombarding of adverts irrelevant at that time of year and if anything made the feeling of cold and dampness in December even more prevailing. Each year you would typically visit the local travel agent or scroll the numerous travel websites looking for the perfect holiday destination to recharge the batteries and hunt down the elusive sun that always appears to be missing from the British climate.