What a strange title for the new James Bond film. "Quantum of Solace" was a short story by Ian Fleming that appeared in "Modern Woman" in 1959. James Bond plays a smaller role in the story. "Quantum of Solace" is a mathematical measurement of love- that calculates the comfort, humanity and fellow feeling required between two people for love to survive. All a long way, away from the exotic setting of the classic Bond stories. But set in the Caribbean so not far from Fleming's opulent home, Goldeneye, in Jamaica.
Ian Fleming spent 20 winters at this clifftop villa at Orcabessa, a small port on Jamaica’s north coast. He wrote 14 of the James Bond books here. Visitors included Errol Flynn, Elizabeth Taylor and Evelyn Waugh. Noel Coward lived nearby at his villa, Firefly in Galina, now a museum. Fleming’s three bedroom home on a bluff overlooking a secluded cove is now part of a larger resort with four other villas, ranging from one to three bedroom units and can be rented individually or as a whole. His writing desk made of Jamaican Blue Mahoe can be seen in the master bedroom. The small cinema on site has a full collection of James Bond videos.
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