I greatly admire his confidence, his drive and will to explore the world without fear of anything holding him back. He didn’t know what was in store, he didn’t know what would happen, and on top of that, he was leaving in less than 24 hours and still wasn’t packed but that was beside the point because he made a decision that he wanted to go– and he was going. At the time he shared that he would be leaving around the end of February, but to me that seemed so close but so far away at the same time, and it wasn’t until I ran into him again last week that I was shocked to learn that he would officially depart on his journey on Saturday, February 29th. He seemed to be waiting for me to add the “oh yea, also…” and pour into my plants for some other grandiose undertaking, but alas I (naturally) had nothing that came close to what he could have been expecting. He immediately wanted to know our future plans and given his plans, I couldn’t help felt like I needed to provide him with some type of Albert-like answer, something like “I want to try to bareback ride through the Swiss alps, hop on a buggy until I reach the shores of Italy, eating only what can be sold by random street vendors along the way, only to hitch a ride upon a fishing boat headed to Greece.” But, I replied with a very typical Duke student answer that went along the lines of graduating, pursuing some type of work outside the country before returning for grad school to pursue a career in which I’m passionate about and can make a change in the world. He briskly walked over to our group and introduced himself ever so enthusiastically. It wasn’t long after until I was able to talk to Albert myself. At some point in there he’ll be in Poland and I believe his end destination is Switzerland, but knowing Albert, that decision will probably remain TBD until he can reach a more definitive answer. His journeys will later take him to China and then to Singapore, Malaysia, and many others. I do know, however, that he rented a car for $800 that he wants to use to drive to Panama. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t be able to recount them to you if I tried, for they are so extensive that I’m not quite sure how he manages to keep track of everything. I wasn’t able to talk with him that first day but upon mentioning him to my cohort members, I soon got an earful of all the fairly lofty plans Albert had for his future. I must admit that one of the first thoughts that popped into my head when I saw Albert was that I could see him in a movie– some kind of action intensive/comedy/epic/mystery genre combined with a unique flare brought to the screen simply due to his mere presence. A character I ever so distinctly remember walking into the Global Cafe about three of four weeks ago dawning an aura of adventure and enigma. ‘Finally, after much searching, we found this long back street of a university that worked well to depict Pall Mall.Albert is gone. ‘We just couldn’t find our London streets anywhere,’ says director Steve Barron. The capital Bucharest gave the production both locations and studio sets, including a backlot with a readymade New York, and the city’s French-influenced architecture in the Old Town made Episode 1’s extended sequence in Paris relatively easy. Romania’s chief role was to provide Victorian city settings, which included London, Paris, Liverpool and New York. It was built, in true colonial style, from imported Bath stone so it gave the production all the Victorian English atmosphere needed. This 1905 construction is now used for exhibitions and concerts rather than official business, but it’s famed as the site where Nelson Mandela gave his first speech after his release in 1990. For The Reform Club, where Fogg makes his bet, filming took place at the City Hall on Darling Street. Built in 1898 in the Cape-Dutch style, and now a noted winery, it’s situated on Tygerberg hill, giving amazing views of Table Mountain.Īnother of the city’s great colonial buildings was employed for the first scenes of the series. For Episode 5’s journey to Hong Kong, street scenes were created back in Cape Town Film Studios, but the garden party at Government House was filmed at De Grendel, a manor house on the northeastern outskirts of the city.
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