Except that Vesper soon drowns in an exploding palazzo on the Grand Canal.
Grab a stool and a glass of wine with folpetti (baby octopus) salad, or enjoy yours dockside along the Grand Canal.
As for Italy, its glory radiated in the 15th century when the Grand Canal teemed with sailing vessels by the dozen.
The art museum palazzos along the Grand Canal adumbrate hubris, a dangerous trait for anyone who collects art and operates in financial markets.
Dusk is gathering, and down a dimly lit alley near the Grand Canal, a 60-strong audience is assembled in the Barbarigo-Minotto Palace, ready for a unique performance.
In Venice, at the otherwise wonderful Palazzo Selvadego (an affilaite of the Monaco Grand Canal) we were offered a single login and password.
The comparatively less-crowded outer gardens and paths along the 1, 670m-long Grand Canal were once traversed on horseback, so a bicycle makes the perfect modern substitute for exploring the great outdoor expanse.
If you use your imagination, you will also be able to place the two false buildings that were destroyed during the climatic finale of Casino Royale on the opposite side of the Grand Canal.
The most famous bridge in Venice, the Ponte del Rialto, is a particular bottleneck, crammed with tourists pausing to photograph the Grand Canal, or stopping to check out the souvenirs on sale.
As our motor launch sped up the Grand Canal in the moonlight, I noted all the palazzos were unlit, owned by absentee plutocrats whose hearts belonged to Venice, too, at least two weeks out of the year.
The five-bedroom piano nobile, or main floor, with its 18-foot ceilings, rare antique pieces and Deco extravagances (such as a gold-tiled bathroom with a swan motif) faces the Grand Canal on one side, an Italian garden on the other.
FORBES: The timeless world of the Venetian aristocracy lives on.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection houses a first-class collection of 20th-century art from Dali to Duchamp in a beautiful white palazzo on the Grand Canal, and the Punta della Dogana, a contemporary art centre at the tip of Dorsoduro, contains the modern art collection of Francois Pinault, the CEO of Kering, which owns labels like Gucci and Saint Laurent.
Robert Hodgson from the Friends of the Grand Western Canal said repairing the "catastrophic" damage to the canal was essential.
BBC: Grand Western Canal breach repairs discussed at meeting
Leicester Civic Society's chair, Stuart Bailey, had said the building on the Grand Union Canal was an important reminder of Leicester's heritage.
Peter Hoffman told Luton Crown Court the stranger he met on a Grand Union Canal bank near Leighton Buzzard in August 2009, claimed he was a captive.
Leicester Civic Society's chair, Stuart Bailey, said the building on the Grand Union Canal, where wool was spun from the latter half of the 19th Century, was an important reminder of Leicester's heritage.
The court heard that King, who lived on a boat on the Grand Union Canal, filmed scores of boys and girls using video cameras set up inside a bag or briefcase between 2003 and 2008.
The following year saw one of the periodic Grand National debacles when Easter Hero fell at the Canal Turnm causing a pile-up which left just seven horses standing.
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