"In this incredibly remote part of the Amazon, the thatched village itself had an equally strange look to it, partly because the street lights never worked as they needed petrol to run the generator."

The old village also has a recently restored pond, a thatched village well, and the church of St. James.

The Claddagh is the oldest part of Galway but little or nothing remains of its old thatched village.

In setting, according to an earlier article in that paper, it offers a "gingham-checked world" associated with "thatched English villages" and "ladies in floral dresses".

I flew low above a thatched village.

The thatched villages and jungle-covered mountains have come alive with gem dealers and gunrunners, and the 1,000-peso note - worth $22 and rarely seen outside the country's major cities - has become common currency.

Torquay Stokeinteignhead village Its a lovely, real, no pretence English thatched village.

Tarzan crossed to a window and looked out across the thatched village toward the distant mountains.

A half-hour later she stumbled, exhausted, into a little thatched village.

He notes that Fiji boasted immaculate seaside thatched villages - for tourist accommodation.