The recipe for the Vesper has changed since Fleming frequented the bar, mainly because the original ingredients have gone extinct.

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The drink gets its name from the character Vesper Lynd from the novel in which the drink is born, Casino Royale.

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Except that Vesper soon drowns in an exploding palazzo on the Grand Canal.

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On the night, Casino went away with one win for best sound - plus a Rising Star award for Eva Green, who played Bond girl Vesper Lynd.

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And the lobby of the Venetian hotel where 007 and Bond girl Vesper Lynd stay is actually Prague's National Museum on Wenceslas Square, currently closed for reconstruction and scheduled to reopen in June 2016.

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The only way to get closer to James Bond's world, I thought, would be to drink it in, which is what I did at a hotel bar a couple of blocks away that legend purports to be the home the famously "shaken, not stirred" Vesper martini.

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