The plan had been to visit the site of Sherlock
Holmes's demise later in the week in parallel with reading The Final Problem but with the weather fine we decided to go to
Meiringen and get on board the little funicular and go up to the
Reichenbach waterfall. The site where Holmes and Moriarty fought and fell is
eerily marked with a star and the thundering water is an ominous choice of location for the end of the great detective. The locals of course make as much of it as they
can and they do it well, with a museum in the crypt of a church in the centre of town recreating
Holme's lounge from Baker Street - on odd thing to find in the middle of Switzerland but such is the power of literature and the lasting appeal of the great detective.
