Skyfall and Glencoe

Yet another beautiful day and Meg and I headed up to Glen Coe (dropped D in town to shop) with a view to walking round the lochan. En route we stopped in the Glen to view the Aonach Eagach Ridge: still amazed that I did actually walk it, and we popped in to the Scottish National Trust Centre. The exhibition: Skyfall behind the scenes which was fabulous. When D and I went to see the movie, we recognized a number of places and also where they took poetic license (or is that artistic license since it's a visual. We wracked our brains over where Bond's ancestral home could be. Now I know the answer. It's actually in England Hankley Common (where much of the movie was filmed) and was made to look like the Scottish Highlands. A typical Scottish landscape, not quite. But great attention to detail. And they had a huge picture of the Aston Martin, so with a wee bit of imagination, I could be touring the Highlands in it. Just need my blond bombshell by my side.