From 11th to September 15, 2007 Fans of the queen of crime writers is waiting for a tribute to Dame Agatha Christie, mystery writer most popular in the world. In place in Torquay on the English Riviera Agatha Christie followers will enjoy a number of important events this year. This now annual gala celebrates the lives and works of the author, most published of all time, whose 79 novels and story collections have more than an astonishing two million copies worldwide and soldin over 50 languages have been translated.
Born September 15, 1890, the youngest of three children in a conservative, easily, if not wealthy family in the coastal town of the city of Torquay in Devon, England, Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was largely educated at home. His mother, Clarissa Miller Beochmer believed "education destroys the brain and eyes damaged, but encouraged to write by Agatha very soon. The only crime novels she had read, while they were growing up, SirArthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and French novel entitled The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux. It was his sister, Madge, the Agatha prompted a yellow where the final could not write easily guessed. For three weeks, stayed with Agatha Moorland Hotel, Hay Tor, Dartmoor, where he wrote his first mystery novel, the mysterious affair of styles published five years later, in 1920. This was the first introduction to the sophisticated 5 feet, 4 inches tall, HerculePoirot, her famous Belgian detective. The book was on the experiences of Agatha care during the First World War in the Voluntary Aid Detachment is based. Styles is an exact replica of the Victorian Torquay. be Poirot, the detective bitter chocolate, with its logic and rational process, and its "gray cells," Christie was a main character in more than forty books, the last of which, Curtain, was published in 1975.
Torquay and the surrounding area provided the inspiration for many of theirPounds. Located in the beautiful bay of Great Britain, where the famous Torbay palm tree grows, the party on 'English Riviera' is an opportunity, kicking Dame Agatha and discover trace many places, the books were a source of inspiration for them. Christie followers want to create a roadmap program is topped and tailed with nights in London. This will ensure that travelers will be the headache of flight delays and avoid potential race the same dayArriving at the festival.
Monday 10 September:
Appointment at your hotel in London, the fashionable Knightsbridge district. Rest and relaxation. Knowledge about 18.00 a clock Torquay based Tour Director for an early dinner and briefing. Overnight in London.
Tuesday, September 11:
Transfer to London's Paddington Station for the train to Torquay on the "English Riviera". Once there and after checking into your hotel, visit Oldway Mansion, a famous local landmark, on a tour of thisthe former home of Isaac Merritt sewing machine maker
Singer. The building sits on 17 acres of gardens, was bought by the singer in 1871. The Maze garden with box hedging, flower beds and trees shaped topiaried dwarfs and should not be overlooked. In September 1914 "Oldway" was like a hospital, the American woman's War Relief hospitals. Round House was also transformed rows of beds for the wounded soldier was brought to England from the trenches of Franceand Belgium in the war 1914-1918. It 's the forum for the Tea Dance, which begins at 17:00 opening of the festival in the afternoon. Overnight in the next four nights in Torquay.
Wednesday, September 12:
A day in the footsteps of Agatha Christie, presented from a visit to the special exhibition at the Museum of Torquay, Agatha Christie Centenary of the exhibit, with many works of Christie family borrowed. There is a permanent retrospectivePhotographs, costumes and memorabilia, which fills the details of the life of the author. After lunch, stroll through the places of his life and inspired his work, which included Beacon Cove, where Agatha enjoyed in Baden, who was a man walking the beach that includes beautiful beaches, gardens, Princess in the ABC Murders presented .. Agate has a great love for music and attended many concerts in Torquay Pavilion. The elegant building was opened in 1912 and was herein 1913, where Agatha Wagerian enjoyed the concert with her future husband Archie Christie. With two novels, The Hotel Imperial "(the" Majestic "in distress without name), offers in Torquay, probably one of the best possible settings Christie appropriate. Drinking coffee in this elegant hotel is easy to imagine Miss Marple collection of the latest crimes while taking the view that spans Paignton and Brixham.
Thursday, September 13:
Travel by bus toGreenway for a morning visit to Agatha Christie's Riverside home fine and a trip to the beautiful, sometimes steep path gardens. To go down the hill at noon on the pier and a cruise aboard the Swan River Dart. Spend time in picturesque Dartmouth, take the ferry walk from Paignton Steam hauled back. That night, both to relax for a performance of Hollow at Princess Theatre.
Friday, September 14:
AMorning tour, visit the All Saints Church, will include the Tower. Agata was baptized at All Saints Church in Torquay and regularly attended religious services. His father made a financial donation to the church and ensure Agata was recorded in the records as a founding member. The church of the village of Churston, where he has a beautiful new stained glass east window and try a meal in a pub in Churston Court Inn. Free afternoon and then prepare for the evening Murder Mystery Ball atGrand Hotel. The Grand Hotel on the seafront and Torquay, where Agatha and Archie spent Christmas of 1914 - their honeymoon. The hotel has one of their breathtaking "suite", dedicated to the greatest crime writer of all time.
Saturday, September 15:
Take the 10:53 train between Exeter and London, arriving there by 1:30. Agatha Christie loved the trains and their suitable gift for observation. His autobiography describes:
"Fascination with a view to a completely differentGroups World: Passing through gorges and oxcart looked and painting of the wagon, the study of people on the platforms'
Spend the balance of the day off enjoying the sights of London.
Sunday, September 16:
to explore transfers to the airport or extend your trip to London.
As approximately 215 miles southwest of London, the cluster of Devon places that undermines the "English Riviera" to continue the spirit of Agatha Christie announced. WhoAgatha Christie Festival 2007 benefit? Perhaps English teachers or professors, a tour of the UK literature students might be of interest to Friends of Libraries groups in which a British catcher is a fundraiser addition to selling books and various other money are organized events, libraries, and general mystery specialist, or a book reading circles, whose members focus on mysteries. And 'if you really want to enjoy a fiction into realityless travel, see the tour!
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