{"id":3511,"date":"2010-09-15T03:29:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T17:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2010-09-15T03:29:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T17:29:54","slug":"agatha-christie-torquay-torbay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/england\/agatha-christie-torquay-torbay","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend of Murder, Mystery &amp; Mayhem at the Agatha Christie Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The annual <strong>Agatha Christie Festival<\/strong> kicked off in <strong>Torquay <\/strong>in brilliant sunshine.\u00a0 This year is the 120th anniversary of the birth of the world&#8217;s favourite crime and mystery author, so what magnificent weather to celebrate this event.<\/p>\n<p>Our room at the <strong>Torquay Imperial Hotel<\/strong> wasn&#8217;t ready so we headed down to Torquay&#8217;s waterfront where all the activities seem to be.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/travelsignposts.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Agatha-Christie-Bust-Torquay.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3512\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 7px;\" title=\"Agatha-Christie-Bust-Torquay\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Agatha-Christie-Bust-Torquay.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Agatha-Christie-Bust-Torquay.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Agatha-Christie-Bust-Torquay.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Agatha-Christie-Bust-Torquay.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>We called into the Tourist office and the exit from the gift shop led us to<strong> Princess Gardens <\/strong>where this bust of Christie is installed.<\/p>\n<p>A traditional English fete was in progress &#8211; what good fortune for us from the photography perspective.\u00a0 Stall holders dressed in 1920s\/1930s costumes manned stalls selling arts and crafts, Christie books, foodstuff, etc.\u00a0 Some of the visitors came dressed for the part as well.<\/p>\n<p>Looking around to see what&#8217;s going on at the various stalls, I spotted <strong>Hercule Poirot<\/strong>.\u00a0 Initially I thought that he was one of the fete visitors who came as a Poirot look-alike, and a very good one at it, but a photographer nearby suggests to me that he was probably the official <em><strong>Poirot<\/strong> <\/em>for the Festival.\u00a0 Poirot kindly offered to pose for photos by Agatha Christie&#8217;s bust before he strolled off to show his famous moustached face to the rest of the fete stalls holders and visitors.<\/p>\n<p>All around the harbour there was live entertainment, with jazz, choirs and brass bands, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But, for me, I&#8217;ve met\u00a0 <em><strong>Hercule Poirot<\/strong><\/em> on my first day in Torquay so that&#8217;s my mission accomplished for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Agatha Christie Festival kicked off in Torquay in brilliant sunshine.\u00a0 This year is the 120th anniversary of the birth of the world&#8217;s favourite crime and mystery author, so what magnificent weather to celebrate this event. 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