| 1922/01/20 |
After leaving their young daughter Rosalind in the care of Agatha's mother, Clara, and sister, Margaret, Colonel Archie and Agatha Christie embark on the KILDONCM CASTLE. |
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| 1922/02/00 |
The Christies arrive in South Africa and are soon learning prone surfboard riding at Muizenberg beach. Christie wrote: The surf boards in South Africa were made of light, thin wood, easy to carry, and one soon got the knack of coming in on the waves. |
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| 1922/03/24 |
Agatha and Archie Christie begin a long weekend at Victoria Falls. |
Mosi-oa-Tunya, Victoria Falls, Zambia
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| 1922/03/24 |
Agatha and Archie Christie begin a long weekend at Victoria Falls. |
Mosi-oa-Tunya, Victoria Falls, Town of Victoria Falls
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| 1922/03/27 |
Agatha and Archie Christie leave Victoria Falls. |
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| 1922/07/00 |
Major Belcher speaks to a large gathering at Wellington's Town Hall and partakes in high-level briefings at Parliament. |
Old Government Buildings, Wellington
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| 1922/07/00 |
The bombastic Major Belcher, his sinister secretary Francis Bates, Mr Hiam, the root-vegetable expert from East Anglia, his twitchy daughter Sylvia and the Christies sail into Wellinton. |
Wellington, New Zealand
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| 1922/08/06 |
Archie and Agatha Christie arrive at Pier 7 in Honolulu, on the Canadian Australian Royal Mail Steamship Co's MAKURA and hail a taxi for the Moana Hotel. |
Honolulu Harbor,
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| 1922/08/06 |
After checking into their rooms at the Moana Hotel, Archie and Agatha Christie change into their swimsuits, rush down to the beach, rent surfboards and hit the waves. |
Moana Surfrider, Honolulu
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| 1922/08/06 |
Agatha catches a wave, gets dunked under and swallows quarts of salt water. A young man grabs her board and advises: If I were you, I wouldn't come out surfing today. You take a nasty chance if you do. You take this board and get right into shore now. |
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| 1922/08/10 |
The 2nd time in the water, the waves tear Agatha silk bathing suit. In the hotel gift shop, she buys a "skimpy, emerald green wool bathing dress, which was the joy of my life, and in which I thought I looked remarkably well. Archie thought I did, too." |
Moana Surfrider, Honolulu
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| 1922/08/15 |
Christie's save money by moving to a cottage across from the Moanna. They spend their time on the beach or in town drinking ice cream sodas, protecting their feet from coral and themselves from sunburns. |
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| 1922/10/00 |
The Christies stay in Hawaii until October: I learned to become expert - or at any rate expert from the European point of view - the moment of complete triumph on the day that I kept my balance and came right into shore standing upright on my board! - AC |
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| 1922/12/01 |
After traveling through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada, Agatha and Archie Christie's ship docks in Southampton, England. |
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