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Dylan Thomas took the scenic route in life as in literature. Peter Lennon follows a picturesque trail along the south Wales coast.

Chapter and verse

From Bath to Saigon and from the Brontës to Irvine Welsh, Desmond Balmer does it by the book...

Wild things

The raw landscape of Newfoundland sets the tone for the film of E Annie Proulx's The Shipping News. But Sarah Tucker finds a softer side to the untamed natives.

Family favourites

The books of Lawrence and Gerald Durrell made Corfu famous. Sixty years after they left, Ben Mallalieu finds out how much remains of their enchanted island.

Unfuhgeddable

Pamela Thompson joins a coach tour around the badlands of New Jersey to visit the sites of the hit TV series The Sopranos - an offer she can't refuse.

Time’s arrows

On the anniversary of Agincourt, Anne McHardy visits the village where the battle took place.

Surreal thing

As a taster for next month's surrealism exhibition at the Tate Modern, Ed Halliwell dips into the avant garde of Barcelona.

The short tour of Albi

Albi, the town where the 4ft 11in artist grew up, is refusing to cash in on next month's film, Moulin Rouge, writes Jane Knight.

Painting the town Rouge

Stephanie Merritt finds life in Montmartre is still a cabaret. All that's absent is the absinthe.

Smash hits

Gaudi's broken tiles stunned visitors to Barcelona at the turn of the last century, and still inspire 100 years on.

After Magritte

Erlend Clouston finds life imitating art in the adopted home of the great Belgian surrealist.

Test of time

As a landmark exhibition of French masterpieces opens in London, Anne McHardy visits four locations painted over 100 years ago

America looks back to Jackie

An exhibition on Sixties style icon Jacqueline Kennedy has drawn the crowds to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Amelia Hill charts the revival of the Jackie 'look'.