We’re heading over the Grosse Scheidegg today, a fairly easy pass into the heart of the Bernese Oberland, destination Grindelwald.

At this fearful place, Sherlock Holmes vanquished Professor Moriarty, on the 4th May 1891.

I wouldn’t of thought I’d get so excited about stumbling across a famous location of an event that never even happened! But finding these falls where Sherlock met his end certainly stirred up some school boy emotions in me.

Anyone out there with Photoshop skills, feel free the superimpose and pipe and deerstalker on me and post it to the comments :)

As a replacement for the usual on-trail margaritas, this holiday we’re going for the more alpine – Mulled Wine :) We carry those tea bags with all the spices in and just pick up cheap plonk as we go. I got this handy wine preserver bag by Platypus for storing evening leftovers for lunchtime treats.

We had a quick pint at Schwarzental on the way down to escape the rain. Turned into another as the rain kept pouring down, which then turned into steak & chips, still it rained, finally we had no choice other than to polish off some schnapps and head down the valley on the bus…

Now we’re camped down in Meiringen and it’s blazing sunshine and too hot!

It’s been proper chucking it down today, the first real test of my new poncho, seemed to keep me and my rucksack dry.