FOLLOW in the footsteps of Thomas Hardy at the international festival being held in Dorchester this summer.
Coach tours are among the highlights of the 18th international Thomas Hardy conference and festival that runs from July 26 to August 2.
Organiser Mike Nixon of the Thomas Hardy Society said: "These coach excursions are always popular but we still have a few places available so people can still come along."
The coach tours call at places relevant to the life and work of Hardy and also the settings featured in his novels, short stories and poems.
They include a Tess tour that follows in the footsteps of Hardy's doomed heroine in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a trip to the Winterborne valley and visits that explore Hardy's links with Hampshire and West Sussex, the Dorset coast and inland Dorset.
The tours also explore Hardy's friendship with T.E. Lawrence as well as his links with poet and clergyman William Barnes.
Contact Mr Nixon on 01305 837331 for details and to book places.
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