An exhibition to celebrate the world's most famous spy has opened at the Imperial War Museum in London. "For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond" is the first comprehensive exhibition to cover the life and works of 007's creator. And it provided us with a chance to let the spy explain a few home truths...The name's Bond. James Bond. And I may be from Scottish stock but my roots are deeply embedded in Kent.

Forget my movies, with all those fantastic locations in exotic parts of the world. Read the biographies about me written by Mr Ian Fleming and you don't need to be a super spy to discover the Kent connection.

Ian used many Kent places as background to his stories about me. He sometimes made slight changes to names but such is his graphic descriptions of the places and scenes that you don't have to be someone as clever as me to recognise them.

Two of my most famous car journeys took place through Kent. Remember my four-and-a half litre supercharged Bentley - what a car that was to power through Kent.

I was in it when I followed evil Hugo Drax to his secret rocket research base on the edge of the white cliffs between Dover and Deal - I even managed an amorous liaison on the beach there. How those stones hurt.

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Funnily enough Ian was living not far away at the time - in White Cliffs cottage on the beach at St Margaret's Bay.

Another of my memorable drives was tracking Auric Goldfinger's Rolls Royce Silver Ghost from London to Reculver. I was in my now-famous Aston Martin DB III at the time.

Of course, the roads across Kent will have changed a lot since those days but Ian knew them well at the time because he frequently travelled between London and his weekend home at St Margarets.

I was supposed to have got my famous 007 from the number of the London to Dover bus, although like so much that has been written about me since, that wasn't true.

However, several of my books were written by Ian at White Cliffs house in the pretty little clifftop village of St Margarets between 1951 and 1957 when he moved to old Bekesbourne Palace nearer to Canterbury.

Like me, he loved to play golf at Royal St George's and the course was the setting for one of the most gripping experiences of my not unexciting life - my incredible stroke-by-stroke, hole-by-hole struggle with Goldfinger.

In the story, Ian devotes two whole chapters to it, although he re-named the course Royal St Mark's. Even the name of the club's golf professional was barely disguised. Alfred Whiting in real life became Alfred Blacking in Goldfinger.

Those who have studied my life will remember my unfortunate obituary in The Times and will no doubt recall other notable Kent landmarks in my life, including the Duck Inn at Pett Bottom. The obituary, accurately recorded in You Only Live Twice, explained how I "came under the guardianship of an aunt, since deceased, Miss Charmian Bond, and went to live with her in the quaintly named hamlet of Pett Bottom, near Canterbury in Kent. There is a small cottage hard by the attractive Duck Inn..."

That pub, you won't be surprised to learn, was one of Ian's favourite watering holes. I'm told it's still there, although the cottage in now part of the pub.

Other favourite haunts were the Granville Hotel, Sandwich, now sadly demolished, and the Royal Cafe in Bench Street - named the Cafe Royal in one of the books. I forget which one, but my memory isn't what it used to be these days.

However that cafe may have unknowingly given its name to the first instalment of my life story, Ian's Casino Royale - not that it bore much resemblance to last year's film of the same name.

Kent was also home to Ian's other famous creation, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He got the idea from a motor racing fanatic called Count Louis Zhorowski who lived at Higham Park, near Bridge. He fitted aeroplane engines to car chassis and tested them by driving down the A2.

After he died at Monza in 1924 his strange motor car was kept at St Margaret's. And, surprise surprise, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang had an 18,882cc Mercedes Benz aero engine.

Of course, that was all fiction.

So before enjoying the exhibition why not take a tour of the real Bond attractions, perhaps stop at the Duck Inn for a drink - Vodka Martini shaken, not stirred of course.