Historic Plymouth

 Stay at either of the 3* hotels -Kitley House Hotel (15 minutes south east of the city) or the Duke of Cornwall Hotel close to the Hoe in the center of Plymouth.

Book through a South West Specialist travel agent.

Day 1 (red route)

Explore Plymouth today visiting the Barbican area from where the Pilgrim Fathers set sail back in the 17th century to found Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Plymouth Hoe where Sir Francis Drake finished a game of bowls before setting sail to defeat the Spanish Armada. Take a boat trip from the Barbican to see Plymouth from the sea.

Buckfast Abbey
Day 2 (blue route)
Head north onto Dartmoor via Buckfast Abbey to Holne. Perhaps have lunch at the Forest Inn at Hexworthy, a rustic moorland pub. Continue to Two Bridges and sample a Devon cream tea at the Two Bridges hotel. Return via Princetown, Yelverton, and Buckland Abbey.

Day 3 (pink route)
Start out at Bigbury today perhaps going over to Burgh Island (accessible at low tide) where you could have coffee at the hotel. This is where Agatha Christie did much of her Dartmouth & the Royal Naval Collegewriting, and the hotel has retained it's Art Deco style. From Bigbury, head to Kingsbridge, an attractive town with a weekly Farmer's market on a Saturday down by the harbour. From Kingsbridge, take the coastal road via Slapton Sands (WWII site) to picturesque Dartmouth.

Day 4 (green route)

Head east to Torquay today, explore the town with it's many Agatha Christie connections, then head to Paignton to take the round robin trip on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway along the coast to Kingswear and then the boat from Dartmouth to Totnes, passing GreenwayAgatha Christie's house Greenway up above the banks of the river Dart. After a look around the attractive Elizabethan town of Totnes, there's a bus which will return you to your car in Paignton.

Day 5 (orange route)
Head across the river Tamar into Cornwall today, to visit theEden Project (approx. 1hr.30mins.) returning via one of the fishing villages on the south coast - Looe, Polperro or Fowey. In the evening, why not pay a visit to Plymouth Theatre Royal.