The family home in Wales where the poet Dylan Thomas lived and wrote for many years can be rented.

In Swansea, 40 miles northwest of Cardiff, the 4-bedroom house is set up as in the 1910s when Thomas lived. Furnishings are of the Edwardian era, and although there is an inside bathroom, heat, gas and electricity, there is no phone, TV, refrigerator or microwave.

The house sleeps six, with rates from £750 mid-week, £1,000 (near $1,455) weekend and £1,500 full week (Friday to...

In Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, on every night with good weather there is a light show involving 44 of the city’s waterfront skyscrapers. The 14-minute “A Symphony of Lights” starts at 8 p.m. and uses orchestrated lasers and lights set to music.

Good places to view the show (and where there is narration in English on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) include sightseeing ferries and the “Avenue of the Stars” on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. It also can be viewed at the waterfront...

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) spent the last 36 years of his life in London. His home in Mayfair is today the Handel House Museum (25 Brook St., Mayfair, London, W1K 4HB, U.K.; phone +44 [0] 20 7495 1685, www.handelhouse.org), where, in honor of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death, the exhibit “Handel Reveal’d” is being held through Oct. 25, 2009.

Among exhibits are a life mask, scores in Handel’s own hand, shopping lists and information about his many illustrious...