Meiringen

Especially his postmodern trilogy of parodic detective stories which conclude at a Sherlock Holmes conference in Meiringen, where Adair himself plunges into the Reichenbach Falls with his own central character.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – review 2011

We have skipped over half a century on from A Mysterious Affair of Style – and yet, there, in the audience for a writers 'Sherlock Holmes-themed shindig in Meiringen (adjacent to the Reichenbach Falls), is Mount, unchanged as ever, despite having a notional age of 120 or so.

And Then There Was No One by Gilbert Adair 2010

Meiringen, and I thought that there I would eat and drink a little more.

The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

At Kirchet, near Meiringen, can be seen some very remarkable crowns of bowlders around several domes of rock which appear to have been projected above the surface of the glacier which surrounded them.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

For a charming week we wandered up the valley of the Rhone, and then, branching off at Leuk, we made our way over the Gemmi Pass, still deep in snow, and so, by way of Interlaken, to Meiringen.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

It was finally agreed, however, that he should retain the young Swiss messenger with him as guide and companion while I returned to Meiringen.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

It was on the third of May that we reached the little village of Meiringen, where we put up at the Englischer Hof. then kept by Peter Steiler the elder.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

It was on the 3d of May that we reached the little village of Meiringen, where we put up at the Englischer Hof, then kept by Peter Steiler the elder.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

Indeed, if I may make a full confession to you, I was quite convinced that the letter from Meiringen was a hoax, and I allowed you to depart on that errand under the persuasion that some development of this sort would follow.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

It may have been a little over an hour before I reached Meiringen.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902