Bonding with Bond
Jill Varley
Travel writer, former editor in chief The Quorum, founding editor Business Events News (BEN), NSW editor Lets Travel magazine.
The death of everyone’s favourite Bond, Sean Connery seems, as others are doing, a timely opportunity to report on my own Bond experience.
It was during a stay in Scotland some years ago covering a story on golf courses with country house accommodation.
Having departed a stay at St Andrews I was heading to Charleton House in the East Neuk of Fife, 15 minutes from St Andrews with Johanna my guide from Visit Scotland.
We met with Charleton’s titled owner who showed us around his baronial estate and 27 hole golf course.
Talk turned to Sean Connery and the fact that he was a keen golf player.
“He plays here quite often,” our host remarked and then went on to relate their first meeting.
“Friends of mine brought him here and when we were introduced he said, how do you do my name is Sean Connery. I gripped his hand and replied, how do you do, my name is Bonde, Baron Bonde!
“We have been friends ever since,” the Baron said with a laugh.