Locations: Grand Budapest Hotel part 3

[dieastra]

Part 1 - Part 2

Well, everyone on my friends list (especially those that I dragged up the mountain ;) ) should know this view by now, as I keep posting about it in different seasons and with varities of fog... I've never seen it in the snow though!



It's the view from the Bastei Bridge in Saxon Switzerland.



See that little extension in the middle of the bridge? This is where they were standing:



And that's me and the Doctor!



PS for everyone who liked the rucksack I got for my birthday - this is why I chose it as the pattern looks similar to my favorite skirt.

Comments

[topum.livejournal.com]

I definitely need to swing by that place. Looks awesome.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

This is only the most well-known place (and most easy to get to with tourist busses) but it's only a small part of the whole Saxon Switzerland National Park. You can do a lot of hiking tours or also climbing there, and visit little towns or the fortress Königstein, go on a boat tour at the river Elbe, or see an operetta or musical at an open air stage where the rocks are the background (they also play Karl May there who lived and wrote near Dresden)...

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

What beautiful pictures.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Beautiful pictures of a beautiful place!

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Wonderful landscape! Reminds me of our Czech Paradise (Český ráj) - the same rock structures.:-) Ehem - I am still a proud patriot, you know:-)
It suits you there with the Doctor!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know the landscape does not stop at the border ;) It's beautiful on both sides.
We have made work trips to Pravčická brána. Did you know it was also seen in a Narnia movie? They walk over the bridge but not in real as it is forbidden.

https://www.cbn.com/special/Narnia/images/gallery/pg_NarniaStoneBridge.jpg

I love watching movies and finding places I have been to, like Vancouver or Cardiff, but I also love watching movies that were shot where I live and try to find all the places. This first picture here was a wedding at the end of the movie, just a short clip, no real scene.

I'll have a few more pictures of the "Grand Budapest Hotel" yet. I remember the newspaper said at the time it was a great tourism cammpaign LOL

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I know about Pravčická brána in Narnia:-).
Locationing is such a great hobby! There is a lady here on LJ, she is a Sherlock fan and she did such an amazing locationing and also some reconstructions of the scenes because she also does cosplay:-).
It would be great if I was able to travel and do some locationing for Three Musketeers series, there are amazing Czech sites there...

You are right, some films or series do start "special tourism" - take "Da Vinci Code". After all, you were in Rosslyn - before or after the film?:-)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Must have been someone else being in Rosslyn, not me. I haven't even watched "Da Vinci Code". Not my kind of movie. Sorry!

Yes, I know a lot of fans who played dead Sherlock in front of the hospital building! They are used to it there now. "Oh, another one!" LOL I also have a friend doing that and often they meet other fans at the places which is nice.

Most of my location hunting was done in Vancouver for "Stargate" and "MacGyver", and in Cardiff for "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood". But the most fun is when I was at a location first, and then AFTER I saw it on TV. Like the American Diner in Cardiff. When we went back the next time, they even had pictures of the filming on their walls ;) But we were there first! I almost fell over when I saw it on TV.

Hey, now that it's Christmas time I think it's the right time for me to post some pictures of Moritzburg, which is near Dresden, where „Tri orisky pro Popelku“ was filmed!

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Ah, crap, I am sorry, I thought it was you in Rosslyn and I also don´t watch these films but I read all the books and these are (as it always is) much much better.

You are a big traveller, you must have had lots of fun!

Ah, this fairy tale is still our beloved one and I look forward to seeing Moritzburg!

[sharp2799.livejournal.com]

It's beautiful but I think you'd have to drag me to that railing!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

It's really not as bad as it looks. Wait till I post the pictures of the walk around the fortress, which is all on see through steel bridges ;) My friend also did not want to go there.

As long as I have a fence in front of me I am fine actually. But I wouldn't stand on a mountain top with nothing in front of me.

[niviene.livejournal.com]

This view never gets old...so beautiful especially in the snow :)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Yes, it looks different all the time! And I love finding familiar places in movies. I need to go back and take more screencaps, I read that I actually missed a few.