Grand Hotel Torquay

... is basically visiting the sites of Torquay that relate to Agatha Christie’s life, works and legend. We started off at the Grand Hotel on the western side of the town centre. This is where a young Agatha honeymooned with her first husband. ...

... the aborigines, let alone Fred Flintstone, never had solar panels on the roof of their huts. The sea was not playing ball in Torquay but by the time we arrived in Lorne the wind had whipped up some gentle waves, perfect conditions for learning to surf, ...

... at my hotel I realized that the hotel marketing team, in a rather dodgy marketing effort, had placed a picture of the hotel across the street - The Grand - in their advertisement on Expedia! The jig is up! The hotel room was quite small. Ok, it was ...

... stereotypical ‘surfer’ can be seen, board in hand, on the way down to the beach. We stopped just out of Torquay to take some photos of the already impressive view along the coast line. Our route undulated its way along the coast, up ...

... in the mouth, none of us that sorry to leave this feeling re enforced as we sat eating breakfast overlooking the beach at Torquay, again Sarah and Alice seem to charm a couple of blokes this time Police officers into not ticketing them for no seat ...

... , home of Bells Beach the host of the famous surfing contests. They were preparing for the Rip Curl Pro while we were there. Torquay is home to Quicksilver, Rip Curl, etc. all of the surf brands started there. Angie was thrilled the beach bum in her came ...

... Great Ocean Road the next morning. We were nicely surprised in the morning by the first Labour Day weekend festival in Torquay. We had breakfast among the foodstalls and walked along the beach before cramming ourselves into the car. Pretty soon after ...

... and seems to relish the challenge. Thommo and I go a long way back but our friendship strengthened when he moved to Torquay 10 or 11 years ago, we worked together, played cricket together and our families socialized together. Over recent years we have ...

... from every country stopping at the viewpoints and in the holiday villages, some of which have some magnificent hotels such as the Grand Pacific Hotel at Lorne. Even though the wind was cold, there were many keen surfers out on the water at the various ...

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... of pictures, and stopped along the way for some walks and food. The road itself starts about 60km from Melbourne in a city called Torquay. It's known as the Surf Capital of Australia. We headed down to Bells beach to see the best surf in the area and ...

... eat our bizarre dinner in Gaylord's chintzy peachy surroundings, which to be honest resemble nothing so much as a fading Torquay hotel. Through the speakers flows Indian muzak. Imagine if a saxophonist more familiar with the Benny Hill theme had ...

... finished) to our hotel, which overlooks Albert Park, which is the venue for the upcoming Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix.  Monday 15th March 2010: Melbourne Our hotel is located in South Melbourne, so we caught a tram into the City Centre. We were ...

  Day 3 and it's Plymouth Ho, me hearties!   We were struck by the fact that we were in the vicinity of Torquay, setting for the classic comedy Fawlty Towers, and we had managed to strike not one, but two Basil Fawlty types. Andrea and I ...

... later. We sauntered down to Noosa's main shopping street and went online. Having lost some photos on CD when the man in the shop in Torquay managed to burn over them, we were glad we had stored them on Paul's i-pod as a back up. Our only dilemma was how ...

... covers both. Drove through lanes to find places that weren’t open, battled through an hour of nose to tale traffic fleeing Torquay, flicked into Seaton to see a tramway but got distracted by the beach and missed it. Lunched at a service stop on the ...

... recovering from a frightening allergic reaction that had me red and swollen like a plump cherry tomato, we motored on to Torquay (home of the famous Bells Beach, site of the Ripcurl Pro surfing competition and beginning of the Great Ocean Road) for ...