Alexander Witt will be a Director of Photography on the second unit of "Bond 24". His previous Bond films are "Casino Royale" (2006) and "Skyfall" (2012).Source: The Murtha Agency
Alexander Witt is 2nd unit Director of Photography in "Bond 24"
Alexander Witt will be a Director of Photography on the second unit of "Bond 24". His previous Bond films are "Casino Royale" (2006) and "Skyfall" (2012).007 Food: Porridge with honey
Food: Porridge with honey
007 Connection: Sir Roger Moore enjoyed porridge with honey as breakfast in Solo Sokos Hotel Torni, Helsinki, Finland (in room 431)
Experience of 007 Travelers: Self-made
Porridge (also spelled porage, porrige, parritch, etc.) is a dish made by boiling ground, crushed, or chopped cereal in water, milk, or both, with optional flavourings, usually served hot in a bowl or dish. It may be sweetened with sugar or served as a savoury dish. The term is usually used for oat porridge (porridge oats); there are similar dishes made with other grains or legumes, but they often have other unique names, such as polenta, grits or kasha.
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007 Connection: Sir Roger Moore enjoyed porridge with honey as breakfast in Solo Sokos Hotel Torni, Helsinki, Finland (in room 431)
Experience of 007 Travelers: Self-made
Porridge (also spelled porage, porrige, parritch, etc.) is a dish made by boiling ground, crushed, or chopped cereal in water, milk, or both, with optional flavourings, usually served hot in a bowl or dish. It may be sweetened with sugar or served as a savoury dish. The term is usually used for oat porridge (porridge oats); there are similar dishes made with other grains or legumes, but they often have other unique names, such as polenta, grits or kasha.
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| Solo Sokos Hotel Torni, Helsinki, Finland |
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007 Travel story: Tallinn (ESTONIA) 2014
Pirita´s, Mika´s and daughter's own family trip for three.
Shipping Company: Viking Line
Ship: Viking XPRS
Voyage: Helsinki - Tallinn - Helsinki
Price: 237,00 € / 3 persons including boat trip and 1 night accommodation with breakfast
Voyage duration on boat: 2 h 30 min / direction
Hotel: Sokos Hotel Viru, Viru Väljak 4
Whole package booked via Viking Line.
Saturday 19 April 2014
After arriving at the port of Tallinn, we took a free bus ride directly to Sokos Hotel Viru.
We got a superior room No. 715, with an extra bed.
Soon we headed to the Children´s Museum (LASTEMUUSEUM) (address: Kotzebue 16) to see what is in there.
Open
Wednesday to Sunday 10.30-18.00
Tickets sold until 17.00
Closed on Monday and Tuesday
Admission
Adults 2 €
Concession 1 €
(Students, seniors, teachers)
Family 3,80 €
(2 adults and up to 4 children aged to 17)
Permission to photograph (no flash) 1 €
Museum collections are located in two floors. Some of the toys are from 15th century. Cars, dolls, children's book, postcards and other toys were great.
Oh yes, the Barbie Exhibition! Our little Agent Traveler liked it a lot!
From one museum to another! Next: The Photo Museum! (FOTO-MUUSEUM) (address: Raekoja tn 4/6)
Open
1 November – 28 February
Thursday-Tuesday 10.00 a.m.-5.30 p.m. (admission up to 5 p.m.)
1 March – 31 October
Thursday-Tuesday 10.30 a.m.-6 p.m. (admission up to 5.30 p.m.)
Closed on Wednesday
Admission
Adults 2 €
Family 3,80 €
Look what we found! A MINOX spy camera like James Bond had in film "On Her Majesty´s Secret Service", starring George Lazenby.
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| George Lazenby as James Bond Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC |
Then it was time to go for drinks. Well hello there, Harry´s New York Bar of Radisson Blu Hotel Tallinn! It is located in the hotel lobby. (address: Ravala Puiestee 3)
Opening Hours
11:00 - 23:00 (Sun - Mon)
11:00 - 01:00 (Tue - Sat)
Nice looking place with its grand piano and all. The staff had cool NY styled uniforms. You just go to see the place yourselves! Little Bondette of ours had an orange juice. We adults had something else.
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| Large Mount Gay with soda |
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| Cocktail menu |
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| "James Bond" drink |
It was Sean Connery time after that!
Yes! This Sean Connery bronze statue (made by Tiiu Kirsipuu) can be found in the yard of Scottish Club or Šoti Klubi of Tallinn, (address: Uus 33) which dates back to Soviet times, is an exclusive society which counts many of Estonia's most powerful politicians and businessmen among its members. Although it has a public restaurant in its building in Tallinn's Old Town, membership of the club is usually by invitation only. New name of this place is now Leib Resto.
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| Pirita |
 Mika |
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Sunday 20 April 2014
A new day in Tallinn has begun.
Since we are the Agent Travelers, we visited also KGB Museum (KGB MUUSEUM), which is located on the 23rd floor of Sokos Hotel Viru (address: Viru Väljak 4). Our tour started at 10.00.
Open
Museum is open 10.00 - 17.30 from Tuesday to Sunday. Closed on Mondays.
Museum is open 10.00 - 17.30 from Tuesday to Sunday. Closed on Mondays.
Admission
Price for Sokos Hotel Viru clients is 7 euros / person. For others 9 euros / person. The duration of the tour is approx. Museum ticket allows you the free entrance to Café Amigos night club on the same day.
Price for Sokos Hotel Viru clients is 7 euros / person. For others 9 euros / person. The duration of the tour is approx. Museum ticket allows you the free entrance to Café Amigos night club on the same day.
007 Travelers's tip
We pre-ordered the tour from viru.reservation@sok.fi and we recommend you the same, because the tour is usually sold out.
We pre-ordered the tour from viru.reservation@sok.fi and we recommend you the same, because the tour is usually sold out.
We experienced interesting things presented by our great guide Margit.
She showed colour explosives in the wallet, and phones that had a direct connection to the KGB Headquarters.
Is that the same red phone that the Head of KGB Anatol Alexis Gogol uses e.g. in the movies "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Moonraker"?
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| General Gogol (Walter Gotell) Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC |
KGB agent's stuff. They left so hurry that all the items are still in their original position.
The Spy Who Loves Me
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Then it was time to visit an Amusement park near the harbour. A German Remmi-Demmi was visiting in the area.
Then it was time to visit an Amusement park near the harbour. A German Remmi-Demmi was visiting in the area.
Admission
Entrance to the park: free of charge.
Single ride tickets: Adults 5 €, Children 3 €
Then it was time to return home. We had a pleasant time and we are going to visit Tallinn again!
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Calamity Gets a New RR Station - Part 4
I had to order the windows and doors I needed online instead of being able to use my regular local source. That's the problem with using S scale parts since the basic demand is low you never know when the restock is going to come in. The online retailer I used "claims" they have the parts in stock but the order has been "in process" since 6/24. So we will see what happens with that. We are going to get to the point where not having these pieces is going to bring construction to a halt. The good news is that the stone sheet that I ordered from Monster Modelworks arrived. The bad news is that I didn't check the thickness and its much to thick to just tack on to the tab that I left on the bottom of each wall. I'll have to cut the tab off and line things up a bit more carefully and I'll have to think about the bottom floor a bit more than I anticipated.
Today's construction revolved around getting the interior started. All the exterior walls have received their wainscoting and chair rails. I can probably start painting that now and then apply the wallpaper. I can move on to building the interior walls, I just have to decide how I'm going to divide the rooms up.
On to today's construction photos.
Today's construction revolved around getting the interior started. All the exterior walls have received their wainscoting and chair rails. I can probably start painting that now and then apply the wallpaper. I can move on to building the interior walls, I just have to decide how I'm going to divide the rooms up.
On to today's construction photos.
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| Adding the wainscoting and chair rail. Hard to see with the white on white going on |
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| And the close up doesn't really help much |
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| This is the front door to the waiting room, still to much white on white. |
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| Ah, works better this way. Trackside door. |
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| Adding the detail for the second floor |
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| Again from the trackside, You can see how the second floor will basically be an A-Frame. |
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| The waiting room, interior side, waiting for some paint now. |
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| The Baggage room. I probably didn't need to add the wainscoting since the floor will be raised and you won't be able to see it. |
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| The baggage room, interior side |
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| The trackside wing. I still haven't cut out the windows since I need a third one to create the large window. That's definitely going to hold up construction |
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| Trackside wing, interior. |
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| Front wing, interior. Its interesting to see how the yellow of the stain can is affecting the auto white balance feature. |
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| Front wing, interior |
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| This is the laser cut stone sheet from Monster Modelworks. Looks great, although I managed to ignore that it is an 1/8# thick. I'll have to work out an alternative solution. |
007-Matkakertomus: Tallinna (VIRO) 2014
Piritan, Mikan ja tyttären omatoiminen perhematka kolmelle.
Laivayhtiö: Viking Line
Laiva: Viking XPRS
Matkareitti: Helsinki - Tallinna - Helsinki
Hinta: 237,00 EUR / 3 henkilöä, sisältäen laivamatkan ja majoituksen yhdeltä yöltä aamiaisineen
Matka-aika: 2 h 30 min / suunta
Hotelli: Sokos Hotel Viru, Viru Väljak 4
Lauantai 19.4.2014
Saavuttuamme Tallinnan satamaan, menimme ilmaisella bussilla suoraan Sokos Hotel Viruun.
Saimme Superior twin -huoneen nro. 715 lisävuoteella.
Pian suuntasimme Lasten Museoon (LASTEMUUSEUM) (osoite: Kotzebue 16) nähdäksemme mitä siellä on.
Avoinna
Keskiviikosta sunnuntaihin 10.30 - 18.00
Lipunmyynti klo 17 asti
Suljettu maanantaisin ja tiistaisin
Hinnasto
Aikuiset 2 €
Alennus 1 €
(Opiskelijat, eläkeläiset, opettajat)
Perhelippu 3,80 €
(2 aikuista ja 1-4 lasta 17 vuoteen asti)
Valokuvauslupa (ilman salamaa) 1 €
Ou jes! Barbie-näyttely! Pikku Agentti Matkaajamme tykkäsi paljon!
Yhdestä museosta toiseen. Seuraavana vuorossa Valokuvamuseo (FOTO-MUUSEUM) (osoite: Raekoja tn 4/6)
Avoinna
1.marraskuuta - 28. helmikuuta
Torstaista tiistaihin 10.00 - 17.30 (sisään 17 asti)
1. maaliskuuta - 31. lokakuuta
Torstaista tiistaihin 10.30. - 18.00 (sisään 17.30 asti)
Suljettu keskiviikkoisin
Hinnasto
Aikuiset 2 €
Perhelippu 3,80 €
Avoinna
1.marraskuuta - 28. helmikuuta
Torstaista tiistaihin 10.00 - 17.30 (sisään 17 asti)
1. maaliskuuta - 31. lokakuuta
Torstaista tiistaihin 10.30. - 18.00 (sisään 17.30 asti)
Suljettu keskiviikkoisin
Hinnasto
Aikuiset 2 €
Perhelippu 3,80 €
Katsokaas mitä me löysimme! MINOX-vakoojakamera, jollainen James Bondilla oli elokuvassa "Hänen Majesteettinsa salaisessa palveluksessa", pääosassa George Lazenby.
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| George Lazenby / James Bond Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC |
Sitten oli aika mennä drinkeille. Well hello there, Harry´s New York Bar / Radison Blu Hotel Tallinn! Baari on hotellin ala-aulassa. (osoite: Ravala Puiestee 3)
Avoinna
11.00 - 23.00 (Su - Ma)
11.00 - 01.00 (Ti - La)
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| Iso Mount Gay soodalla |
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| Cocktail -menu |
Kivannäköinen paikka flyygeleineen kaikkineen. Henkilökunnalla oli siistit New York -tyyliset uniformut. Käykääpä itse katsomassa! Pikku Bondettemme joi appelsiinimehua. Me aikuiset otimme jotain muuta.
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| "James Bond" -drinkki |
Drinkkien jälkeen olikin Sean Connery -aika!
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| Pirita |
Mika |
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Sunnuntai 20.4.2014
Uusi päivä Tallinnassa oli valjennut.
Koska olemme Agentti Matkaajia vierailimme myös KGB-museossa, (KGB MUUSEUM) joka sijaitsee Sokos Hotel Virun 23. kerroksessa. (osoite: Viru Väljak 4) Meidän kierros alkoi klo 10.00.
AvoinnaMuseo on avoinna klo 10.00 - 17.30 tiistaista sunnuntaihin, ja suljettu maanantaisin.
Hinnasto
Hinta Sokos Hotel Virun asiakkaille 7 euroa / hlö, ja muilta 9 euroa / hlö. Kierroksen kesto n. 60 minuuttia. Museolipulla saa vapaapääsyn Café Amigon yökerhoon samana iltana.007 Travelers -vinkki
Ennakkotilasimme kierroksen osoitteesta viru.reservation@sok.fi ja suosittelemme teille samaa, koska kierros on usein loppuunmyyty.
Koimme mielenkiintoisia asioita mahtavan oppaamme Margitin esitteleminä.
Hän esitteli kukkarossa olevia väripanoksia, ja puhelimia joilla sai suoran yhteyden KGB:n päämajaan.
Onko tuo sama punainen puhelin jota KGB:n pääjehu kenraali Anatol Alexis Gogol käyttää mm. elokuvissa "007 - rakastettuni" ja "Kuuraketti"?
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| Kenraali Gogol (Walter Gotell) Photo © EON, United Artists, Danjaq LLC |
KGB-agenttien sälää. He joutuivat lähtemään niin kiireellä, että kaikki esineet ovat jääneet alkuperäisille paikoilleen.
The Spy Who Loves Me
Sitten oli aika vierailla huvipuistossa lähellä satamaa. Saksalainen Remmi-Demmi oli vierailemassa alueella.
Sisäänpääsy puistoon oli ilmainen, ja laiteliput aikuisilta 5 euroa / kpl, lapsilta 3 euroa / kpl.
Sitten oli aika palata kotiin. Meillä oli mukavaa ja aiomme vierailla Tallinnassa uudelleen!
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