The latest James Bond movie, the twenty-fifth, will be in cinemas in April 2020, with locations including Jamaica, Norway and mountainside Matera in southern Italy.

But for me, with Ian Fleming and Bond’s Swiss connections, and so many Bond missions visiting Switzerland over the decades, it’s a shame ‘Bond 25’ won’t. So let’s put that right with a tour of three classic Bond-movie locations in my favourite Alpine republic.

Wherever you enter Switzerland, it’s not far to the eagle’s nest eerie of Piz Gloria, high in the Bernese Oberland that featured so spectacularly in ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’. To reach the heavily 007-themed attraction, head south of Interlaken and ride the Schilthornbahn cableway to the heights.

Check in at the Hotel Eiger in car-free Mürren for Bond-style luxury overlooking the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. Then continue up to the Schilthorn’s 2,970m-high peak as George Lazenby and the late Telly Savalas did in 1969.

In Sean Connery’s tyre tracks

Afterwards, drag yourself away and cross the spiralling Grimsel Pass to Oberwald in the Goms valley where hotelier Cesar Ritz grew up. Then follow the Furka Pass road towards Andermatt like Sean Connery in his silver-birch-coloured Aston Martin DB5 as he stalked Auric Goldfinger and Tilly Masterson in ‘Goldfinger’.

Nearly 60 years on, location spotting is still easy among the impressive scenery. But, oh how Andermatt has changed since 1964 – and not just with the disappearance of the Aurora filling station that featured in the film. What was once a poster child for Swiss Alpine villages, a small rail junction and a strategic military centre is now Samih Sawiris’s Andermatt Swiss Alps resort – dominated by the uber-luxurious Hotel Chedi and a new golf course where doe-eyed Swiss cows once grazed.

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Crossing the St Gotthard Pass en route to our third stop, explore Sasso San Gotardo’s cold war underground fortifications – they make Bond villains’ lairs look like playhouses. Then continue south through Italian-speaking Ticino to the 220m-high Contra Dam near Locarno.

Remember the heart-stopping bungee jump at the start of 1995’s ‘GoldenEye’? If you’re feeling ‘brave as Bond’ you too can be shaken and stirred by the world’s highest stationery bungee jump…

Taking in the entire world’s Bond filming locations could easily become a bank-balance busting life’s work. Maybe being able to visit some of the most famous within one beautiful little country offers a great alternative – especially during September, one of the best months for enjoying the Swiss Alps.