007 TRAVELERS: Bratislava

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Saturday, 9 April 2016

007 Filming location: The corner where tram goes in Bratislava / The Living Daylights (1987)

Bond movie: "The Living Daylights" (1987)
Place and location in the movie: Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia nowadays)
Actual place and location: Crossroads of Hormayrgasse and Leopold-Ernst Gasse, Vienna, Austria
What happens here in the movie: Bond hops on the tram and follows Kara Milovy (Maryam d'Abo) to her apartment
Visited by 007 Travelers: 2015

The corner where the tram number 9 goes in the movie.

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Wednesday, 16 March 2016

007 Filming location: Apartment where Bond aims at Kara in Bratislava / The Living Daylights (1987)

Bond movie: "The Living Daylights" (1987)
Place and location in the movie: Agitacné Stredisko, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (nowadays Slovakia)
Actual place and location: Zum Süssen Eck candy store, Währinger Strasse 65, Vienna, Austria
What happens here in the movie: Bond waits General Georgi Koskov to defect and aims at Kara Milovy who is supposed to shoot Koskov
Visited by 007 Travelers: 2015

The window where Bond and Saunders watch Koskov escape

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Pictures of Timothy Dalton and filming of "The Living Daylights"

at the window of "Zum Süssen Eck" candy store.

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Inside "Zum Süssen Eck" candy store

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Sunday, 28 February 2016

007 Filming location: Cudové Konzervatorium exteriors / The Living Daylights (1987)

Bond movie: "The Living Daylights" (1987)
Place and location in the movie: Kudové Konzervatorium, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (nowadays Slovakia)
Actual place and location: Volksoper, Währinger Strasse 78, Vienna, Austria
What happens here in the movie: Bond waits General Georgi Koskov to defect
Visited by 007 Travelers: 2015

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The window where Kara aims with her rifle

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The window from where Koskov escapes

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The entrance of the Volksoper

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Friday, 5 February 2016

007 Filming location: Interiors of Bratislavan opera house / The Living Daylights (1987)

Bond movie: "The Living Daylights" (1987)
Place and location in the movie: Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (nowadays Slovakia)
Actual place and location: Sofiensäle (Sofiensaal), Marxergasse 17, Vienna, Austria
What happens here in the movie: Bond meets Saunders, before defection of General Georgi Koskov
Visited by 007 Travelers: 2015

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Saturday, 21 November 2015

007 Travel story: Bratislava (SLOVAKIA) and Vienna (AUSTRIA) 2015

What: 007 Travelers on the tracks of James Bond
Where: Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia
When: 17-20 February 2015

Airline: Finnair
Flight route: Helsinki - Vienna - Helsinki
Duration: 2 h 30 min
Price: 833,60 EUR + 5000 Finnair flight points / 2 adults and 3 children

Tuesday 17th of February 2015

On our Finnair flight the staff recognized us, that we are 007 Travelers and offered us adults two bottles of Champagne for free. That was nice, thank you Finnair!

But this 007 location hunt did not start with the best way. One of the children had been ill before the trip but was already getting better. The doctor in Finland said that it is safe to travel. It was, but we did not know that she got another symptoms from different reasons and our flight was bad because of her health.

Right after landing we had to go directly to first aid at the Vienna airport, and they took good care of her and gave her medicine. The service there was excellent, thank you, Vienna airport!

We took a bus from Vienna airport to Bratislava, Slovakia.

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia, occupying both banks of the River Danube and the left bank of the River Morava. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.
Duration of this bus trip was about one hour. With Slovak Lines Express, it was 7,70 EUR / adult and 3,90 EUR / child.

It was quite a cold day but fortunately our accommodation place was near:

Accommodation: Apartmán Old centre - Rybárska brána
Address: Rybárska brána 9, Stare Mesto, Bratislava
Room type: Apartment with two bedrooms
Price: 115,00 EUR / 1 night + city tax 1,65 EUR / person / night

Our landlord was a nice Italian woman Zanini Zlatica, and she showed us how everything works.

Mika / 007 Travelers

In the evening we had dinner in restaurant Hurricane's.

After that we went to explore Bratislava some more.

Cumil. Residing in the Old Town, dates back only to 1997,
but Bratislavians and tourists love him.

Mika & Pirita / 007 Travelers
in front of Slovak National Theatre.

We also saw this tram which has the same destination Karlova Ves as the tram in Timothy Dalton´s Bond movie "The Living Daylights" (1987). They have not actually filmed here but Vienna doubles as Bratislava in the film. In that time Bratislava was part of Czechoslovakia and it was not really easy to go to film there, because it was behind the Iron Curtain. In 1993 Czechoslovakia was departed to two separate countries: Czech Republic and Slovakia and Bratislava became the capital of Slovakia.

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Wednesday 18th of February 2015

Early in the morning some of us started to feel ill, some kind of virus. We needed to manage to travel back to Vienna by bus. It was cold and we were ill. Somehow we reached Vienna, and we took a nap in our next accommodation.

Coffee and beer were quite cheap in Bratislava...

Accommodation: Luxury Apartments Vienna
Address: Kumfgasse 3, Vienna
Room type: Apartment with two bedrooms
Price: 284,00 EUR / 2 nights including 50,00 EUR cleaning fee / 1 staying

In Vienna we have used public transportation, metros mostly, one ticket is 2,20 EUR.

We had lunch in Hard Rock Cafe Vienna

Pirita / 007 Travelers

and later we visited Madame Tussauds Vienna. The tickets were 14,35 EUR / adult and 11,55 EUR 7 child.

Marilyn Monroe

Daniel Craig

Madonna is the singer of Bond title song "Die Another Day" (2002)

David Hasselhoff

Alfred Hitchcock on the right

Gerhard Berger

But the best was yet to come: our visit to Wiener Riesenrad, the amusement park PRATER!

Tickets: In contrast to other theme parks the access to the Prater is free of charge. Only the attractions themselves are charged. Fees for individual attractions vary between € 1,50 and € 5,00 depending size and genre.

Prater is of course famous from 007 movie "The Living Daylights" (1987). Here Bond (Timothy Dalton) and Kara Milovy (Maryam d'Abo) spend time and have fun before Necros (Andreas Wisnievski) kills Bond's colleague Saunders (Thomas Wheatley). Due to its Bond connection, we wanted to have a round with cabin number 10, but it was not in use at the moment. We explaned the staff how important that would be to us and they were really nice and let us ride with cabin number 10.