In 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle sent Sherlock Holmes off on what he hoped would be his final journey, zig-zagging across the Continent to Switzerland and a fatal meeting with Professor Moriarty.
133 years later, join us as we retrace that journey through a rapidly changing Europe, by train and bus, on foot over Alpine passes, aboard century-old paddle steamers and dizzying cable cars, in a 1000-mile odyssey across six days, as we head back to Reichenbach.
00:00 Introduction
01:29 Watson in Kensington
05:55 DAY 1: The Continental Express from Victoria
21:41 DAY 2: From Dieppe to Brussels
36:31 DAY 3: From Brussels to Geneva
51:34 DAY 4: Wandering along the Rhône Valley
1:00:40 DAY 5: Across the Gemmi Pass to Meiringen
1:14:49 DAY 6: To the Reichenbach Falls
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was this video filmed in summer 2024?
Brilliant. I don't know how you do it!
Hmm, I always assumed "brougham" was pronounced "broom"! But perhaps I'm wrong. I believe they were named after Lord Brougham and Vaux, defence counsel for Caroline of Brunswick and later Lord Chancellor.
I think this is my favourite video on this channel now! Very few content creators could make me sit down for 1h20 and without any distractions just enjoy a video as much as I enjoyed this. Always so excited for these ❤
As someone who is taking three international rail journeys in the next month, including staying in Kandersteg, this video was perfect. I unfortunately dont have the time to follow Holmes and Watson's route from the UK to Switzerland, but Eurostar and the ICE will have to do.
Absolutely Superb.
Superb stuff here Jo, even more so than the go West/East videos. There's a real sense of following things as closely as you can whilst the wit and intelligence in commentary comes across as you zig zag the way across Europe. And a Bradshaw's guide to boot for proper authenticity of what the timetables would be, showing the somewhat odd and random nature some European timetables were like. I wonder what other famous books have travels you could recreate, as this could the first of a series which you would enjoy doing, I think!
25:08 Regarding personnel I actually had one of the nicest guard experiences on a Normandie TER train this year. The guard announced in English over the speaker system, that it was a passenger’s birthday and congratulated them! I‘ve never experienced that before.
Although not a swim across the Channel, I'm still content.
History, Geography, General Knowledge all woven into pure entertainment, a joy.
All your videos are excellent but this was the best ever; this is a fantastic premise
I'd like my name lettered in gold on my passport.
just a phenomenal piece of work. utterly adored it
Thank you, Jo, and Mrs Turtle (appropriately attired), for another splendid video excursion. Meticulously planned and researched, as always, and thoroughly absorbing. Thank you too for bringing some glorious Swiss sunshine into the British December gloom! Great change from a race against the clock! I'll be rewatching for details I missed the first time!
Very entertaining although I don’t recall ever having had such fantastic weather in Switzerland & I even lived there for a while.
Following a literary work is an interesting reason for a travelogue video. Just a correction: Station Bruxelles Midi is named after a nearby street: Avenue de Midi. Its name indicates it runs North to South. Midi taken from the French for Midday, or when the sun is in the South.
In Dutch therefore it is named the Zuidstraat (meaning South Street). The Station is named Brussel-Zuid in Dutch.
Absolutely superb. Many thanks to you and Mrs Turtle.
Excellent and informative as always wish you had posted this up a couple of months earlier as we did the black forest railway trip through Switzerland and Germany and you stopped at a lot of the places we visited And we was stuck with things to see And you're visit here on this video makes me want to go back.thankyou and take care 😊
Brilliant film, thank you. What a great way of showcasing Europe, regardless of any interest in ACD. Dare I say your best work yet. Thanks again.
Thank you for this – I really enjoyed it! I'm glad you didn't meet Professor Moriarty when you finally got to the falls!