1Laugharne in Carmarthenshire
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Located along the River Taf, Laugharne is close to the border with Pembrokeshire. This is known to be a very popular location due to its connection with Dylan Thomas, the castle ruins and picturesque setting. Laugharne also has many attractive pubs, restaurants, shops and cafes that should make visitors and locals happy. Dylan Thomas chose the seaside town of Laugharne as “his place in the world” and there he wrote his great work Under the Dairy Forest, despite judging it as the strangest city in Wales, a city out of time, beautiful and crazy. It is convenient to stop along the way to visit the National Botanical Garden of Wales, in Carmarthenshire, which has a glass greenhouse, the work of Norman Foster. And from here the adventure begins. And I say adventure because the roads become paths surrounded by bushes where only one car can fit, even if two-way is allowed. This ‘little detail’ that makes the excursion even more seductive, is softened when at the end of the path a typical British village appears with its stone houses, people walking the dog or having tea and, if it is Sunday, the obligatory market of antiques. Such is the case of Laugharne, where Dylan Thomas spent more than ten years writing in his ‘boat house’ and drinking endlessly at the Brown Hotel accompanied by his wife Caitlin Thomas; and where Burton and Taylor, Peter O´Toole and, even, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, Carlos and Camilla, also gave their health.
