We catch the 93 bus into Dartmouth this morning. We are visiting Greenway House a thirty minute ferry ride away from Dartmouth Harbour. It’s free on the bus with our bus pass but £15 return each on the ferry. It’s still busy in Dartmouth on a Monday morning but not teeming with tourists like it was on Saturday.

The ferry is packed for the thirty minute journey sailing up the Dart River to Greenway House landing. We get a better view of the Royal Naval college from the river.

The house was Agatha Christie’s holiday home bought by her in 1938 and described as ‘the loveliest place in the world’.

It’s on the banks of the Dart across the river from Dittisham. It’s now run by the National Trust.

Over the war years it was requisitioned for evacuees and towards the end of WWII used by the U.S. Coast Guard.

The estate was used as a setting for some of her plots, including Dead Man’s Folly.  The final episode of Poirot was filmed here in 2013.

It’s a plain looking large house surrounded by extensive gardens. It’s set in the 1950’s and stuffed to the gills with the original family furniture and contents gifted by Agatha’s daughter and grandson. It makes for an interesting and enjoyable wander through the different rooms with volunteer guides ready to answer any questions. A mural painted by the coast guard is still on the walls of the Library.

By now it’s spitting but still warm outside so we share a Cornish pasty and scone with a cuppa sitting under an umbrella outside the cafe.

A quick tour of some of the gardens and it’s time to catch the ferry again. We arrive in Dartmouth just in time for the next bus back to Stoke Fleming.

It’s now cold and drizzly outside so we spend the afternoon reading and I do a bit of blogging. We enjoy watching series one of Young Wallander and eat BBQ chicken cooked in the oven.

A good day spent on and by the River Dart nosing around a house full of a lifetime of memorabilia.

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