tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61608391170648242192024-03-13T18:39:02.885-07:00Sherlock Holmes 2012 Pilgrimage to SwitzerlandDiary of a Victorian Lady in Switzerland (Such good fun it ought to be a crime!)
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194340400469290065noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160839117064824219.post-2279083612558276562012-09-17T09:42:00.000-07:002012-09-19T06:25:37.693-07:00The Final Day<span style="font-family: Calibri;">All quiet today at the Englisherhof,
resuming its other mantle of <a href="http://sauvage.ch/en/Offers/News/Welcome" target="_blank">Parkhotel du Sauvage</a>. No long dresses to trail behind
ladies or top hats to tip in their honour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s a quiet day too at the
<a href="http://www.haslital.ch/en/page.cfm/Familien/Familienwinter/2468" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes Museum</a> in the English church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Many trains taken, many mountains
summited, many mysteries solved. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Its time to leave our lovely
Swiss lair and return home… with a bag of original Meiringen meringues and a
carpet bag full of memories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Next year in 1891! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Love, Lady H x<o:p></o:p></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194340400469290065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160839117064824219.post-31941920961020815372012-09-16T01:09:00.000-07:002012-09-16T02:08:28.630-07:00DAY 7: Fade to Black<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The morning meets us with aquamarine skies pierced by
gloriously high peaks. We are dancing and singing and living the Swiss dream. What
could be more delightful than an innocent excursion up the funicular to <a href="http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/reichenbach-fall-where-sherlock-holmes-fought.html" target="_blank">ReichenbachFalls</a>?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In truth, anything would be better than this…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Suddenly Dr Watson is called away to attend to a disturbed
Englishwoman in the hotel. (It doesn’t occur to him that they are all up here,
each more disturbed than the next!) Horror of horrors, Moriarty appears from
the rock like a lizard. Moriarty and Sherlock tussle together as naturally as
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Over the cliff they tumble, into the boiling waters of death’s
demonic drink -- clean enough to drink – we are still in Switzerland!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But wait! The literary phoenix rises again. Sherlock emerges
from behind the world’s largest round of Emmental cheese and the day is saved.
Good triumphs over evil and the Bernese Oberland and beyond is a better, if
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The band strikes up (these boys are certainly clocking the
hours) and a merry parade of a hundred revellers marches through Meiringen to
the thrill of the townspeople and tourists. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The mood is light and now there is time to try Meiringen's next most famous item.... <br />
Until tomorrow, Lady H xAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194340400469290065noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160839117064824219.post-49662550208875930392012-09-14T15:17:00.001-07:002012-09-15T01:24:42.212-07:00DAY 6: Another mayor, another mountain, and one day closer to the Final Problem<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Must, must, must! A visit to the storybook village of <a href="http://grindelwald.ch/en/Welcome" target="_blank">Grindelwald</a>,
the terrific rocky heights of the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau heaving above it, home
of the very first cable car in Europe and visited by one Mr Conan Doyle
himself. Sherlock, it is said, may also have “holidayed” in this pretty Alpine
village, in order to recuperate from the infamous episode at Reichenbach Falls….
But more about that tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We travel up, up up from Grindelwald…. the frosted peaks
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.rosenlaui.ch/en.php" target="_blank">Rosenlaui</a>, such a pretty posey of vowels, is the charming
Kurhaus hotel to which Sherlock and Watson were headed after their visit to
Reichenbach Falls. Even if they were never to arrive there precisely as planned,
our visit includes an intrepid hike up the rushing <a href="http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/rosenlaui-glacier-gorge-mightily-romantic.html" target="_blank">Rosenlaui Gorge</a>. Must ask
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On foot in the Rosenlaui Valley, the beautifully bedecked
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dum dum dee dum dum dum dum da dee dum. Woe is us on the eve
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Moriarty pronounces: “The end is
nigh for Sherlock tomorrow.” He dares to name his supporters, rashly speckled amongst
the crowd. Von Bork, Baron Gruner, Baron von Herling, even Mrs Hudson has
allegedly sent a postcard asserting “His demands for coffee are driving me mad.”
Also among the baddies is Colonel Caruthers who shamelessly accepts repeated happy
birthday wishes from us all. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not so best pleased, either, is the King of
Bohemia, in receipt of a blackmail picture featuring his royal behind being
tickled by the enticing Irene Adler. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Standby once again while Lady H plays her cards. And do let's keep one eye on a certain voluptuous Violet….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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How gracious of the King of Bohemia to invite us onto his
steam train to make the journey to Meiringen. Rumoured to cost some 3000 Swiss
francs an hour, his privy purse must be full of the takings from the season at
Marienbad.<br />
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the world? Could it be all others graded at 106 per cent or more have been
boarded up by Health and Safety?! Many of the party were faint at the prospect.
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of the <a href="http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/bernese-oberland1.html" target="_blank">Bernese Oberland</a>, We are indeed on a first name basis with Ourselves.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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Romantic, remote, elegant <a href="http://www.grimselwelt.ch/grimselhotels-en/grimsel-hospiz-en/" target="_blank">Grimsel Hospiz</a> is a four-star
high-daway at the top of the pass. A delicious lunch was served and their cellar is vaut le detour. Today, the snow gods sprinkled us with
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Down in charming <a href="http://www.haslital.ch/en/page.cfm/Welcome" target="_blank">Meiringen</a>, Mr Sherlock Holmes is mobbed by his fans
– mountain guides from <a href="http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/kandersteg.html" target="_blank">Kandersteg</a>, no less than two mayors, the inevitable brass band, a
merry odd assortment of doyens of the daily vin d’honneur, and a mule. Sherlock
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Who is this mysterious orange-juice swilling specimen? Tune in tomorrow....</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194340400469290065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160839117064824219.post-87511849962325928522012-09-12T01:56:00.002-07:002012-09-14T01:42:48.637-07:00DAY 3: To the Top<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Time to confess. I do have a history of letter writing and
blackmail – indeed, you may have some recollection of my role in a certain
political scandal known as The Second Stain. Well, I’m better now. No more
secrets, no more monkey business… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oh all right, perhaps a little wouldn’t hurt.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The day started so well! We board the ingenious <a href="http://www.jungfrau.ch/en/sommer/start/" target="_blank">Jungfraubahn</a>,
built in 1912 and due for its <a href="http://www.jungfrau.ch/en/tourism/news-events/centenary-of-the-jungfrau-railway/construction-of-jungfrau-railway/" target="_blank">100 year anniversary</a> as far away as the year
2012. Bound for the Top of Europe and the highest rail station on the Continent,
we first alight at <a href="http://www.jungfrau.ch/en/tourism/places-to-visit/kleine-scheidegg/" target="_blank">Kleine Scheidegg</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here the nefarious Moriarty manages to appropriate the
train itself, pedalling shares in his own evil rail company and promising his
MMR train line would have “no Swiss tennis players, and feature leaves on the line and
the wrong kind of snow”. Mayhem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This wild feat of rail engineering journeys right into the
mountain itself, popping out at the top of <a href="http://www.jungfrau.ch/en/tourism/places-to-visit/" target="_blank">Jungfraujoch</a> at higher than a heart-fluttering
3,400 metres. Our hearts certainly are pounding in the thin clear air, one
tweed-coated man turns a fetching shade of blue. We pause to admire the
splendid ice carving of Sherlock in the <a href="http://www.jungfrau.ch/en/tourism/places-to-visit/#ice-palace_105" target="_blank">Ice Palace</a>, deep inside the glacier. Oscar
Meunier aka renowned British artist John Doubleday, makes a celebrity
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Snow heaves over the mountain tops this sunny September day
and indeed its lies here all year long. Peering down
the longest glacier in Europe -- the<a href="http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/bettmerhorn-eggishorn-aletsch-glacier.html" target="_blank"> Aletsch</a> is 22km long -- the elegant Miss Helen Stoner looks for
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the train winding back down the mountain the missing hat
is finally discovered…. by Sherlock, bien sur. But horror of horrors, the Great
Sleuth finds the missing property in the possession of me, Lady Hilda. I am
cuffed, but I feel I am in good hands…</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194340400469290065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6160839117064824219.post-47922786516103156212012-09-10T14:17:00.001-07:002012-09-11T00:53:07.987-07:00DAY 2: Lakes, mountains and mischief<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Off we float, over turquoise Lake Brienz in an open-topped
steamer, across water smooth as glass -- and clean enough to drink, certified by
the tourist office so it must be true. (In this case, it really is.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Onto the
funicular built in 1879 – will modern wonders never cease – zipping up to the mid-mountain
luxury of the <a href="http://www.giessbach.ch/about-the-grandhotel.html" target="_blank">Giessbach Hotel</a>, a wooden-spired castle in the sky. </span></div>
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Falls rush past our windows during luncheon: white linen, glistening crystal
chandeliers, and an impromptu minuet danced beautifully by The Reverend Dr Shlessinger
and Miss de Merville. I fear her honour was in peril during more than one pirouette.
Love that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We eavesdrop on a most scandalous confession from famous
Swiss actor and author Helmi Sigg to the Cardinal. Herr Sigg has recently penned
“Sherlock Holmes and the Giessbach Fall”, a pastiche which Cardinal declares a “venal
sin”. (The pastiche, not the book itself. The book is jolly good. Do read it.)
Then the sounds of cut-glass British voice are raised in song (Eton, Westminster,
St Pauls… they’re all here). “We decided to make this a very British occasion
and not practice first,” the Man Staying at the Englischerhof in Meiringen
demures. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cardinal Tosca. He felt much better after a swift glass of wine and a (holy) smoke. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Back down in Interlaken’s Schlossgarten, villagers came out
in droves. The price of admission alone repays one for looks received by local
people: gaping stares and even applause from the crowds have been non-stop. With
good cause, for Queen Victoria bestows the Victoria Cross on a Swiss soldier
for conspicuous gallantry, an increasing rare quality in our society. What will
the 20<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> century bring?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dinner at the magnificent <a href="http://www.jungfrau.ch/en/tourism/places-to-visit/harder-kulm/" target="_blank">Harder Kulm</a> restaurant, perched over
900m above the sea, with a bird’s eye view across to the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau peaks. Blessing by His Eminence before dinner, his prayer honouring
Mrs Hudson “in hopes that dinner will surpass even a breakfast made by a Scotswoman”.
Local monsters perform for the crowd and female member of the local folk band
shows us how to spin a 5 franc coin in a stone bowl. She yodels and makes goat
cries and the crowd leaves very merry. I sleep deeply in clean Alpine air, with
goat cries in my dreams and corset indentations in my ribs… just like a local. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today I quit my home in Whitehall Place for the invigorating
air of the Swiss Alps. I scarcely shut my eyes et voila -- we had arrived so
speedily we might have flown through the very air itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ah Switzerland. So clean, so neat, so tidily run. I must
tell my husband the European Secretary: perhaps he shall be able to organise
some Europe-wide union between countries. On the other hand, it would never
work. I can hear the money rushing down the drain with the force of Reichenbach
Falls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So who is in our little party? Who isn’t, darling! All<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the usual suspects -- including that nebulous
Napoleon of Crime, Moriarty, Cardinal Tosca, The King of Bohemia, Mr Holmes’
long-suffering housekeeper Mrs Hudson, and no less than two persons who call
themselves assistants to a Baritsu teacher (Baritsu, is this the original
zumba?) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ooh la la, the fashions…. The ladies and the gentlemen were melting in the splendid
heat of a late Swiss summer. Piped into a splendid luncheon in Zurich au style ecossaise:
the blare is quite pronounced. If Mr Holmes was desirous of a discreet entry
into this sparkling alpine city, he will be disappointed. I was not. Lady H loves
a good reeling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nestled between the shimmering Lakes
of Brienz and Thun, like glory on high, the setting is breathtaking. </span></div>
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horse-drawn carriages, even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">motorised</i>
carriages (!) deliver us to the Hotel Victoria-Jungfrau for the day’s pinnacle:
an audience with Her Majesty Queen Victoria. (Whilst The Queen quips on her “innumerable
children” and that Victoria and Jungfrau in this context are “unlikely
companions”, I sneak a peek into the hotel spa -- taking the waters here is in fit
for any queen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thank for joining me, Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope, intrepid lady
traveller and wife of a high-ranking British MP. As I send daily despatches
on Grand Tour through Switzerland, I am happy to share a sneaky peak of my daily
diary with you, gentle reader. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The subject du jour? Only the primo, the venerable, the sexiest
celebrity sleuth of our era, Mr Sherlock Holmes Himself. (Excuse the gush of
the fountain pen, even a Victorian lady can’t help feel a certain flush. The
size of that pipe alone!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Joining Mr Holmes and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson will
be a cast some 70 characters from the Sherlock Holmes Society of London on pilgrimage
to the beautiful Bernese Oberland. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tune in every day this week to follow the hijinks. From the
scintillating sights atop the Jungfrau to the fateful setting of The Final
Problem at Reichenbach Falls… You know what happened there! Even if you don’t,
stay tuned. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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