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Following the Led Zeppelin Trail to Wales

Some fans might have enjoyed the Led Zeppelin reunion gig on Monday, or might be planning a ride on the Led Zeppelin Roller Coaster at the Hard Rock Park. But apparently too many Led Zeppelin fans have been visiting a small Welsh cottage where Robert Plant and Jimmy Page wrote the band's third album.

The poor vicar who owns the Bron-yr-Aur cottage, immortalized as the title of a short song on the album, is unhappy about fans who break in to the cottage, remove the house's signs and steal bits of cement.

So if you're planning a bit of nostalgic travel through the Welsh Dyfi Valley, please be kind to this poor old vicar and take only photographs. Don't blast your Led Zep music too loud there either, because Reverend John doesn't seem the heavy rock type, and he could be powerful enough to block your stairway to heaven.

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Fall Culture Travel :: Wit, Whisky and Wales

You don't have to stay at home just because the leaves are changing. Follow along on our Fall Culture Map to discover what's happening this autumn.

November in the Northern Hemisphere tends to signal the beginning of the season for "inside sports", foremost among these being things that involve drinking and wordplay. How appropriate, then, that this week finds us smack dab in the middle of a tribute to poet/drunk Dylan Thomas in his native city of Swansea, Wales.

The Dylan Thomas Festival runs from October 27th to November 9th, the days of the poet's birth and death, respectively. The festivities include film screenings, readings, concerts and a general excuse for celebrities of a literary bent to gather in a really Welsh city. Exercise your liver and pack a sweater as that November in Wales tends to be rather wet, damp and gray. Inside sports, folks.

And before you remind us it's a little late for a trip to Wales, fear not. Thomas' memory can still be appropriately toasted at the site of his death, Manhattan's White Horse Tavern in the West Village. Legend has it that Thomas lost a drinking contest to the jealous husband of his lover at the White Horse and later died from the experience. Be sure to enjoy your poetic nostalgia in moderation.

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