Inspiring Travel Writing from David Clement Davies: Page 2 of 2
Articles by David Clement Davies: Page 2 of 2
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Where the Elephant Catchers Go to Die
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David Clement Davies
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Vietnam
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Central Highlands
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Ban Don
The cemetery of Ban Don village in western Vietnam is still where the elephant catchers go to die. But it is hardly a stirring testament to a once mighty tradition. The mournful wooden graves poke through the jungle like broken down latch gates....
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Dinard
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David Clement Davies
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France
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Brittany Region
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Cotes d'Armor
Dinard’s annual film festival is a decidedly genteel and unreconstructedly English affair. For a start it screens nothing but British films. They have their own Oscars, or Césars as they are called, but if it’s Cannes you want, think again. The last...
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Lo Kau Foo
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David Clement Davies
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Vietnam
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Central Coast
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Hanoi
Lo Kau Foo, answered our driver when I pointed inquisitively at the bowls of gloopy rice paste. Dai had stopped by a food stall on the edge Highway No 1. The Lo Kau Foo was tasteless, but more appealing than many Vietnamese dishes we encountered....
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Restaurants in Granada
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David Clement Davies
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Spain
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Andalucia (Granada)
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Granada
"Quien no has visto Granada, No has visto nada," goes the adage, "Who has not seen Granada, has seen nothing." It is a city that boasts one of the most beautiful fortresses in the world, the Alhambra and, as the last bastion of the almost mythical...
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Letter from Europe
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David Clement Davies
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Austria
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Vienna
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Vienna
Can a human being turn into a mezze? Culturally I'm certainly becoming a mixed platter, with the little inedible bits pushed to one side. Last weekend I was eating Imperial portions of Sachertorte in Vienna and this Sunday drinking lousy local red...
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Papa Noel Comes To Town
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David Clement Davies
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Spain
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Catalunya
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Costa Brava
I’ve seen the future, and it’s ingenious. Actually it’s ‘El Ingenio’, Arxarquias’ answer to Brent Cross shopping centre. Opened two days ago and with 12 movie screens, it seems to be trying to prove the dictum from the film Field of Dreams, one that...
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Nought so Queer as Folk
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David Clement Davies
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Spain
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Catalunya
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Costa Brava
Since the Spanish year has just foot-tapped to a close, in the gulp of twelve grapes as the Spanish counted in the New Year, I thought I’d dish up a culinary interlude and do what we all do best up here - let you into some gossip. Or rather,...
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