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There is something inexplicably cool about recognising locations in films. Particularly the big budget ones. I still love seeing London on screen. Any part of London. On any type of screen ... be it film, or tv. I don't think it will ever get old. I get all squee-ish and homesick inside ... I just can't help it. Being able to recognise a far away location, and for it to be so innately familiar - it's a fabulous thing. Especially when you come from somewhere like Brisbane - a city which barely ever makes it into any form of tv or film.
Even more exciting than recognising London though, is recognising somewhere else. Somewhere that wasn't home for a year and a half. Somewhere that I 
visited while travelling ... somewhere familiar purely from a tourist perspective. Because let's face it ... London is hardly an unfamiliar sight on tv or film. As much as I love seeing it, it's not an entirely uncommon occurrence.
Last night however, I saw the much anticipated "Made of Honor" ... a fun, light hearted, romantic comedy starring the ever-fabulous McDreamy and set for the most part in New York - somewhere I'm yet to have the opportunity to visit. Little did I know though, the amusing story line eventually takes the lead characters on a journey across the atlantic to Scotland ... and somewhere entirely familiar and recognisable.
By now, you may have recognised that the photos here displayed are of the very locations in Scotland that are visited in the film. I was so excited while watching ... my poor friends must have been entirely sick of me squealing in recognition. Eileen Doonan castle has been a favourite of mine for years though ... since well before I visited in 2004. I had a photo print of the castle on the wall of my room at uni in Melbourne. I have ancestors who once worked at the stunning place. The connection is a special one for me.
And seeing the familiar locations on a massive screen during a relatively big budget film ... all the more exciting as a result! Surely I'm not the only one to find such familiar film locations so thrilling?