Hercule Poirot creator and her first husband Archie may acquire been among the first Britons to memorize how to surf standing upHercule Poirot never risked his little grey cells – nor his impeccably waxed moustache by attempting to hang ten. Nor did Jane Marple ever strap a board to the roof of a Kombi and thunder out of St Mary Mead in search of the perfect tube.
Their enigmatic creator,though, was something of a pioneering and diehard wave-rider. At a time when many of her contemporaries were chugging cocktails in Blighty, or Agatha Christie was paddling out from beaches in Cape Town and Honolulu to earn her surfing stripes.
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Source: theguardian.com