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How the James Bond films inspired a passion for set-jetting.

It was May Day wot done it. Had Grace Jones’ sultry assassin (or rather stuntman B.J. Worth) not parachuted from the Eiffel Tower in A View To A Kill, this Bond-loving film fan would not have cultivated a passion for going to the sites of 007’s exploits he has spent the last three decades indulging.

Sure, I’d been to Paris before. On returning there in 1986, though, I was a

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