Dylan Thomas’s Wales — intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com

In October of 2014 the literary world celebrates the 100th birthday of the late Dylan Thomas. Few places meant more to the Welsh poet than Swansea, on Wales’s southwest coast. “This sea-town was my world,” he wrote of the “ugly lovely” place where he grew up and wrote the majority of his life’s work. Dylan Thomas was born on Wales’s southwest coast in Swansea. (Photograph by Dylan Mania: October 24-26, catch local singers/songwriters performing at the Do Not Go Gentle festival—a contemporary take on Thomas’s lifestyle here as part of the arty Kardomah Gang—followed by the 36-hour “Dylathon” reading October 26-27 at the Swansea Grand Theatre. Plus, peruse handwritten manuscripts at the Dylan Thomas Centre.

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