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…some hapless cook left an oven unattended while making Meiringen’s other claim to fame - the meringue, which may or may not originate here. But we are settling down for lunch with a ‘tête-à-tête’ meringue at the legendary Frutal tearoom… #FinalProblem2024
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‘On the afternoon of the 4th we set off, with the intention of crossing the hills and spending the night at the hamlet of Rosenlaui. We had strict injunctions, however, on no account to pass the falls of Reichenbach, without making a small detour to see them.’ #FinalProblem2024
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Up through the steep, lush, Alpine meadows, there is a roaring sound drawing us onward… #FinalProblem2024
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We know that three months after the Reichenbach incident, most of the village of Meiringen burned to the ground. This was either, as has been widely suggested, a reprisal attack led by Moriarty’s surviving lieutenant Colonel Moran, or alternatively… #FinalProblem2024
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‘The path has been cut half-way round the fall to afford a complete view, but it ends abruptly, and the traveler has to return as he came.’ #FinalProblem2024
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.@PGPDP I realise you probably have less time now that you're heading home, but this crisscrossing, zigzagging thread/trip across Europe with Holmes and Watson is well worth following... #FinalProblem2024
Tomorrow, a new Traveling Turtle adventure. We’re going long-form/literary. In April 1891, the most famous fictional Londoner set off on what his creator hoped to be his final journey, to an appointment with nemesis at Reichenbach. We’re following his footsteps. #FinalProblem2024
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Meiringen, far below us in the Aare valley, has been a favoured Alpine resort of the English since the 1830s. Bradshaw’s tells me it has exceptionally pure and clear air, and one of the first English congregations in the country. #FinalProblem2024
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There’s a funicular now to take you to the falls - run by the local hydro company - but it post-dates Holmes (indeed, it’s opening in 1898 is not unrelated to the falls’ increased popularity after a certain publication) and is on the wrong side of the cascade. #FinalProblem2024
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Frankly, I’m skeptical about mein host Peter Steiler of the Englischer Hof and late of the Grosvenor. These direct instructions to visit Reichenbach, handing over hotel notepaper to the mysterious Englishman. Did Moriarty recruit him when he worked in London? #FinalProblem2024
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The fire escape arrangements from our hotel last night (15th century wooden chalet style-thing) are an abseil kit. Tempted to borrow it for later waterfall visit. #FinalProblem2024
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Here in the little hamlet of Schwendi Acher, we are joining Holmes and Watson’s footsteps, taking the old path up from Meiringen to Zwirgi and Rosenlaui, now superseded by the well-engineered road that the bus takes. #FinalProblem2024
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And we will leave Holmes where we left him, at Reichenbach. As Conan Doyle put it: ‘I thought if a man wanted to meet a gaudy kind of death that was a fine romantic place for it.’ The thread ends here. Thanks so much for coming along! Video in due course. #FinalProblem2024
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Can’t believe I managed to fit so many forms of transport into retelling #FinalProblem2024, yet somehow missed this quintessentially Sherlockian form of travel. Apologies.
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…and that is - as Holmes of course did - to return to 221B Baker Street, truly lovingly recreated in the basement of the old English Church in Meiringen. #Finalproblem2024
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‘It is indeed, a fearful place. The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house. The shaft into which the river hurls itself is an immense chasm.’ #FinalProblem2024
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First sight of the falls. Hydro-electric schemes mean there is less water coming over than when Watson/Conan Doyle experienced them, but they are still a remarkable sight. Halfway up, the force of the water has bored a hole through which most of it now flows. #FinalProblem2024
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Holmes and Watson would have climbed the path direct from Meiringen. My aversion to climbing *every* mountain means we are cheating slightly and taking the Postbus half the way up the hill. To be fair, it is very hot. #FinalProblem2024
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And given that, there’s one more place we need to visit before we can sign off… #FinalProblem2024
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