A new travel guide traces Ian Fleming’s 1930s Swiss haunts, from Geneva to Lausanne, and the romance that may have shaped Bond.
Ian Fleming in Switzerland: in the footsteps of a childhood sweetheart
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Even before James Bond was created, Ian Fleming had a passionate romance in Switzerland with a young woman from the canton of Vaud. A new travel guide now traces the writer’s connections to French-speaking Switzerland and Lake Geneva.
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