Inspiring Travel Writing from David Clement Davies
David's travel journalism has appeared in all the National papers in the UK, and magazines as diverse as Country Life, Country Living, GQ and Time Out. He is also a well known young adult novelist, here and in America, and his books, especially his talking animal fantasies, often deal with the themes of nature and environmentalism that he weaves into his travel writing. His first novel was long listed for the Carnegie Medal, and his latest just shortlisted for the Tir Na Nog prize for the best in the English Language category. He lives in London. Website: DavidClementDavies.com
Articles by David Clement Davies
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A Flavour of the Campo: Letter from Andalucia
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David Clement Davies
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Spain
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Andalucia
November 2000: I’m failing to penetrate into the dark interior of Andalucian cooking - to bring back, like a portly Conquistador, the culinary wealth of Granada, Seville and Jerez. I’d meant to sweep down off my hilltop into Malaga, to the liveliest...
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Peaches in the Alhambra: Letter from Andalucia
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David Clement Davies
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Spain
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Andalucia (Granada)
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Granada
November 2000: Yesterday we nearly dared to eat a peach; to steal one from a sudden glorious cluster, bulging from a tree in the middle of the Alhambra palace. In Seville and Cordoba, and any number of town squares across Southern Spain, autumn’s...
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Before You Die: Casa Las Brisas
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David Clement Davies
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Mexico
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Acapulco & Pacific Beaches
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Puerto Vallarta
This charming ‘boutique’ hotel, less than an hour from Puerto Vallarta, comprises eight rooms in two handsome colonial-style thatched villas, centred on an elegant oval of a lapis blue swimming pool. Edged by an immaculate horseshoe of...
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London
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David Clement Davies
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United Kingdom
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Greater London
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London
It was trying to get my shopping bags back from the supermarket, along the darker reaches of the North End Road, that finally clinched it. A more Antipodean type may have whooped manfully and gone surfing on the great, looping waves of wet, scooped...
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Hacienda San Angel
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David Clement Davies
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Mexico
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Acapulco & Pacific Beaches
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Puerto Vallarta
The Hacienda, a former winner in Conde Nast’s top ten in the world, is a treasure of old Puerto Vallarta, cradled in the Sierra Madre mountains. The still- expanding creation of San Franciscan property magnate Janice Chatterton, this fascinating...
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The Majahuitas Resort
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David Clement Davies
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Mexico
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Acapulco & Pacific Beaches
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Puerto Vallarta
It’s hard to be down in the dumps with a humpback breaching in the middle of your palm-fringed cove just 50 yards away, and spotted dolphins and a manta ray leaping balletically in the turquoise bay. If you like it wild, this eco-minded, solar-...
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Villa Amore
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David Clement Davies
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Mexico
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Acapulco & Pacific Beaches
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Puerto Vallarta
Owned by a Californian surfer, the Villa Amor is fun, and filled with an ambition that only just outreaches its grasp. The charm is the setting in the beautiful bay, with its famous break, centred around the little fishing and surfing village of...
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Under the Volcanos
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David Clement Davies
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Indonesia
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Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands
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Bali
How often you can overlook the wood for the trees. I only heard two days after I left Lombok that tourists had been evacuated and locals had invaded the Sheraton hotel at Sengiggi beach and set fire to the bar. No Europeans were hurt, but...
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No Picnic at Hanging Rock
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David Clement Davies
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Turkey
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Cappadocia
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Goreme
It glinted in the Cappadocian moonlight; the last symbol in an impossibly symbolic landscape. Perched on top of the ancient rock cone in Goreme village like a metallic pigeon was their very own disco ball. Cappadocia’s famous ‘fairy-chimneys’ loomed...
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Don't Mention the War
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David Clement Davies
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Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
We'd had our fill of the war. We'd seen the appalling photos of American atrocities in Saigon's Military museum and crawled around a tiny section of the Cu Chi tunnels, the warren which was used by Viet Cong guerillas for twenty years and runs for...