Laugharne pronounced Larn as in yarn, which is something my friends are good at and so am I, don’t want to give them all the credit. I digress.
Yes, so Laugharne in Carmarthenshire has a castle, Laugharne Castle on the Wales Coastal Path overlooking the Taf Estuary, where Dylan Thomas wrote Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. The castle was part of a series of Norman coastal castles from Chepstow to Pembroke. Wales has hundreds of castles you know.
Laugharne was the inspiration for Llareggub (read it backwards) the fictional town in Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood. Walk along the estuary path past the castle and the fishermen who are incredibly good for a yarn and then up some steps is the recreation of Dylan Thomas’ writing room and a little further is the boat house. Interesting fact : The shed inspired Roald Dahl’s writing hut at his home in Buckinghamshire. Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin are buried in St Martin’s Church.
