Exactly it. Glad to see I'm not the only one; it didn't fool anyone AT ALL that it was Spain!
It's nearly all Corfu too. I can see several places I've stayed or snorkelled in the opening flypast.
It's a bit of a lark to seek out the filming spots, as they're not too far apart and it's a fairly cheap holiday.
The first 'St Cyrils', with the wedding party, is in a place called 'Danilia', which was built as a living museum, but never really made any money until ITV revived it for filming 'The Durrells'. It's open to the public now, and even the church looks the same. Although the confessional bit out the back where Bond meets Q is somewhere else entirely, as Greek Orthodox churches don't have Catholic guilt-o-cubes. The car-park entrance is familiar too, as it's used as the wall of the 'Spanish' mansion (the mansion with the pool was still only a few miles away). And the 'Albanian' warehouse is the Corfu Yacht Club below the old fort.
Only the climbing bits are on the mainland, at Meteora, which is another RUDDY spectacular bit of the world.
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 25 Feb 2025, 12:19,
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