Banknock to Bangkok - David’s world travel memoir out
A former Denny man has penned a book about his travel adventures down the years.
David Jarvis had lived in Denny and Larbert for more than 40 years before moving to the north of England to work in the 1970s.
A metallurgist and engineer, David had been special projects manager and export manager at Cape Insulation in Stirling’s Kerse Road before the company moved to Washington in County Durham.
His book ‘Jazzo’s Journeys’ contains hundreds of anecdotes from his personal experience of travel across the globe over the decades.
He had travelled the world designing, selling and constructing high temperature furnaces for aluminium, glass, cement and steel plants.
Seventy-nine-year-old David said: “This book is a collection of hundreds of mainly humorous anecdotes based on personal experiences undergone during extensive travels by land, sea and air on numerous journeys around the globe over more than the last sixty years.
“The journeys themselves start in Falkirk, Denny and Bonnybridge but soon range around the globe with mainly humorous tales from exotic and not so exotic locations.
“The Great Wall of China to Antonine’s Wall, Berlin to Stirling and Bangkok to Banknock all jostle for space within its pages along with tales of Stirling Judo Club, which trained at the castle and the Guildhall, and Stirling Rugby Club, which at that time trained at the Old Original Bar in King Street.”
David’s wife Sheena, nee Craig, was born in Stirling and they still have family in Stirling, Bridge of Allan and Cowie. They now live in Chester.
Writing ran in David’s family. His father was the late W D Bill Jarvis, who wrote three books, and was a newspaper correspondent including with the Stirling Observer.
David’s late brother Steve also started his career on The Stirling Observer, before graduating to sub editor on the Scottish Daily Record and father of the chapel in the Glasgow Branch of the NUJ.
Steve’s first wife Wilma Low was a reporter for the Observer.
Having completed ‘Jazzo’s Journeys’ David is now considering a follow-up.
He added: “My next book might cover the genesis of geology of which Scotland has plenty, and fifty shades of clay, recalling my dusty early days in Bonnybridge.”
‘Jazzo’s Journeys’ launched on September 12 and is available on Amazon, and an ebook is set to follow shortly.