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Literary South Wales: The Dylan Thomas Trail 3 days
Tour Dates: Your choice! Any day of the week.
Cost: Depends upon the number of guests in your party.
2 Guests: $1859 USD per person; $75 USD single supplement
4 - 11 Guests: $1349 USD per person; $75 USD single supplement
12 - 15 Guests: $899 USD per person; $75 USD single supplement
16 Guests + - ask us for a quote
What your tour package includes: The private services of your driver/guide for 3 touring days, your accommodation for 2 nights while on the tour including breakfast and dinner daily, all entrance fees to gardens and attractions, transportation, all taxes and tips other than those you may wish to give your guide.
Airport transfers, accommodation pre and post tour, London city tours, London attraction passes and London transport passes are not included but can be added to your package as you wish. Ask us for details.
Why not Link it? This tour ’links up’ with Jane Austen Country, Literary Heart of England, Literary Lakes and other short tours. Create a holiday break to suit your schedule!
Contact us for a specific quote and availability: specialgrouptours@yahoo.com
This tour begins and finishes in London. You will be picked up from your London hotel at approximately 09:00.
TENTATIVE ITINERARY
DAY 1
From London, we will wander via the pretty Chiltern Hills, an area teeming with literary heritage, to historic Gloucester. Here, we’ll see Gloucester Cathedral and can explore children’s literature connections with Beatrix Potter and Humpty Dumpty.
Once in Wales, there’s the scenic Wye Valley, Chepstow Castle and romantic Tintern Abbey, inspiration for one of William Wordsworth's loveliest poems to enjoy. If we’ve time, we may also catch a glimpse of the area where Harry Potter author JK Rowling grew up.
En-route to our night stop location, we’ll travel through the once gray and hard world of a Welsh mining valley, now transformed, but a time so memorably captured in the great novel of industrial Wales, 'How Green Was My Valley'.
NIGHT STOP: Bridgend/Gower
DAY 2
A unique day following the Dylan Thomas Trail and affording us the opportunity of touring one of the UK’s nicest areas, the Gower Coast. We will spend time in the village of Laugharne. This was Dylan Thomas’ village, the inspiration for Under Milk Wood, where we’ll see his famed boat house writing studio, home and grave. Also, we will feature the city of Swansea and explore a few other legends of Welsh literature including the great Celtic tradition that gave birth to the Arthurian legends.
NIGHT STOP: Bridgend/Gower
DAY 3
Yet even more stunning scenery as we make our way through the verdant Vale of Glamorgan to the the open-air Museum of Welsh Life in the village of St Fagans. This fascinating mirror of hundreds of years of Welsh life embraces dozens of authentic buildings, removed from all corners of the country and painstakingly and faithfully rebuilt and refurbished here. Houses, churches and chapels, a mill, bakery, pubs and even a school, have been wonderfully preserved. You can easily imagine the life of times of Dylan Thomas during time here.
We'll take our leave of the land of the Red Dragon, crossing the river Severn and, time and interest permitting, can stop at the mysterious ancient standing stones of Avebury and the amazing Silbury Hill en-route back into London.
Please note: All attraction opening dates/times are correct at time of printing this website.
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