London
The name is Bond. James Bond. And, oh boy, he has had some nice wheels. We visited the Bond in Motion exhibit at the London Film Museum. It's the largest official collection of original James Bond vehicles used in the films. The highlight is the classic 1964 Astin Martin used in Goldfinger. But the vehicles from Spectre are also there.
Almost next door is the London Transport Museum at Covent Garden. It explains the transport heritage of London--river boats, horse drawn carriages and trams, trains, omnibuses, Underground, etc. Fascinating.
Learned that a man named Harry Beck created the iconic London Tube map in 1931. Prior to the Beck map, the Underground map was about as legible as a bowl of spaghetti. He realized that the exact geographic locations were not as important as 3 key elements: the relative positions of the stations, the lines, and the stations' connective relations. Brilliant!! The concept has been adopted all over the world.
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