Many of your questions are interesting and well informed - the only problem with some of them is...I don't know the answer! Take this one from Scott for example.

"I think it's a great idea to start at the beginning of Bond with Casino Royale. Now where will you go with Bond and Daniel Craig next? Remakes or original missions?"

Good question. Valid question. But the answer? No idea. Not even our producers will confirm anything about that yet. So the only thing I can say about where we're going with Bond right now is that we're off to the Bahamas.

Now I realise that most people think we spend our lives in glamourous corners of the world but regrettably, that isn't the case. More often than not it's a muddy corner of some industrial estate, wind whistling round the corners of the trailers and a hapless location manager chasing polystyrene cups being blown across the set.

But this is a Bond film after all and so, once in a while, we do get to unpack the sun cream and put on the shades. Having said that, there's a lot of tough work to do on a distinctly unattractive building site here, but we'll get into that on another day. For the moment, let's just enjoy the picture postcard aspect of this location. That's what I'm doing anyway, after a month of snow and ice in Prague.

There's all sorts of reasons we're here - firstly, it's a location in the film. We're working at the One & Only Ocean Club where Bond comes to check out a lead. But the Bahamas is versatile enough to double for other places, (as we've proved before in THUNDERBALL, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY and THE SPY WHO LOVED ME) and in this case, it is also standing in for Madagascar. That's the dusty, derelict location on the other side of the island - more of that another day. Here on the north side of Paradise Island it's more what you would expect from Bond's world - waving palm trees, white sand beaches and ice cold drinks.

Or it would be if you could see any of it because we're on night shoots and the unseasonably cold weather means that our drink of choice is now hot chocolate rather than the kind that come in tall glasses with umbrellas in them! The One & Only, which appears as itself in the film, has thrown open its doors to us and the five star resort, where the loudest noise is usually the tinkling of ice in those previously mentioned tall glasses, now has cables in all directions, a forest of lighting stands and the usual small army of crew, extras and locally recruited staff to turn their rather pleasant library into a casino. James Bond is following a trail that will lead him, eventually, to the gaming tables of the Casino Royale and here he picks up the scent of his villain, and being James, picks up an exotic young woman too.

Caterina Murino plays Solange, the bored wife of a dangerous man. The beautiful Italian actress is refreshingly honest about what Bond sees in her character - for them, this isn't the greatest love story ever told.

"We have only sex chemistry - we have nothing else, we are not going to be friends and we are not going to invite him to drink tea."

So no tea for Mr Bond, at least in this part of our story. There is romance ahead for 007 and, if not tea, perhaps a refreshing martini. And for me? A nice cup of hot chocolate, please.

Until next time.
YARBOROUGH