Saturday 26 December 2009

Sighisoara,mures county,romania

This is where Vlad the impaler(Basis for bram stoker's dracula) was born,(There is a restaurant,restaurant terasa bar in the house where he was born.)

Saturday 5 December 2009

St Margaret's Bay area, kent,england,uk

A house called White cliffs was where Ian fleming worked on his first james bond novels.
Scenes from moonraker and goldfinger are set in nearby locations

Thursday 3 December 2009

Torun,poland

This is where Nicholas/nicholaus Copernicus was born

Wednesday 25 November 2009

Sunday 15 November 2009

Forks,washington state,usa

This is where the teenage vampire saga Twilight  is set.

Saturday 14 November 2009

Laax/Lags,graubunden canton,swirzerland

This is the site of  what is believed to be the world's largest landslip 10,000 tears ago.

Boulders from this massive landslip have been used to made slate buildings

Saturday 7 November 2009

Horsted keynes,sussex england

In churchyard is buried Harold macmillan

Saturday 10 October 2009

Schilthorn,switzerland

The revolving Piz gloria restaurant appears as Blofeld's hideout in On her majesy's secret service,being only half built at the time.
they serve martini

holkham hall.norfolk,england,uk

The beach here appeared at the end of Shakespeare in love with gwyneth paltrow.
The hall interior itself appears in The Duchess.

Monday 14 September 2009

Glentruim castle,highlands,scoland,uk

The area of the castle is where Monarch of the glen was filmed.

Sunday 30 August 2009

Mendatica and Pigna, Liguria,Italy

Mendatica is where Thor Heyerdahl wrote the bestseller Kon Tiki about his expedition from Tahiti to peru on a homemade raft in 1947

Pigna is the only area where i fagiolo biancho di pigna,a large white bean is grown.

Saturday 9 May 2009

Sunday 3 May 2009

Becherel,Ille-et-vilaine,brittany,France

Du Guesclin (Constable of france?)was knighted here in 1354 after a skirmish with the english.

Chateau de Caradeuc is nicknamed the Versailles of Brittany.

Saturday 11 April 2009

Auray, Morhiban, Brittany, France

Benjamin Franklin landed here in 1776, during the war of independence, to negotiate a treaty with france, he stayed in a house in st-goustan.

Auray was also the site of the final battle in the War of Succession in 1364.

Sunday 15 March 2009

Eloundas area, Crete, Greece

The Ferryman Tavern is where a lot of the film series Who pays the Ferryman? was filmed.

Spinalonga Island northwest from Elounda is the setting for Victoria Hislop's novel The Island.

Monday 23 February 2009

Menhir de Kerloas mear Brest, Finistere,Brittany, France

This is France's tallest standing stone 31 feet/9 metres and is believed to be 5,000 years old.
Newlyweds would visit the stones.
It is properly the westernmost standing stone in France as well.