Literary Passion · Laugharne, Carmarthenshire
Dylan Thomas Boathouse, Laugharne
The cliff-side home of Dylan and Caitlin Thomas, whose passionate, tempestuous, hard-drinking marriage was as famous as his verse; the writing shed overlooking the estuary is preserved as if he had just stepped out.
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The steep Uplands semi where Dylan Thomas wrote two-thirds of his poems in a bedroom the size of a confession box — the sensuous, rolling voice of 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower' formed here before London, Caitlin and the Boathouse. Pair with Laugharne for the marriage.
Documented historyTragic RomanceTintagel Castle (Tristan & Iseult)Tintagel, Cornwall · EnglandThe wave-battered headland bound by legend to Tristan and Iseult — the knight sent to fetch his king's bride, the love-potion drunk in error, the doomed passion that medieval Europe told and retold. Folklore, and labelled so; the drama of the place is entirely factual.
LegendBohemian & LibertinePortmeirion (Noël Coward writes Blithe Spirit)Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd · WalesClough Williams-Ellis's Italianate folly-village on a Welsh estuary — a place built purely for pleasure — where Noël Coward, taking rooms in 1941, wrote 'Blithe Spirit' in five days. The village's flamboyant unreality has drawn the theatrical, the artistic and the amorous ever since.
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