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Friday, July 26, 2024

Reichenbach Falls

If you are a reader of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series these falls will not be a mystery for you.  For those who haven't indulged in that mystery series,  Reichenbach Falls is the site of the demise of Sherlock Holmes and his mortal enemy Moriarty.  Alas readers of Conan Doyle were so aghast that he would kill off the protagonist, that  C. D. was forced to resurrect Sherlock Holmes.  He reappears after several years with a story as to how he survived the fall in the falls.

Reichenbach Falls is in Meiringen where we were based for our vacation.  In fact we could hear the falls and see the base of it from our backyard.

Dan and I walked over there to travel up the funicular and experience the falls close up.














We later stopped in to see the Sherlock Holmes Museum in town.


It was once a church.


Baker Street reincarnated.


So if you haven't read Sherlock Holmes now you must.
I took a paperback copy of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes to re read while I was there.  I left the book in the apartment for future visitors to read and enjoy.