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The Turkish bath

According to “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”, Holmes and Watson ‘had a weakness for the Turkish bath’, which means they liked the bath very much. It says the Turkish bath is located on the Northumberland Avenue in London.

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[Review][Pipe Smoking] Honeydew Tabacco

In ‘The Adventure of the Cardboard Box’, the box used in the case was the one of honeydew. It’s unclear what kind of tobacco it is, but I found there was a pipe tobacco of that kind.

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[Review][Pipe Smoking] Falcon Pipe

They say it’s easier to cool smoke with a Falcon Pipe, so I bought one on eBay. It was 28.99 GBP with 1 GBP international shipping fee. The bowl is slightly small, and it’s good to smoke for a short time as I always do.

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New name for the website

  • 2018/07/15 Sun
  • Misc

As you can see, the name of our website has changed from “The Flying Holmesian” to “Sherlock Holmes Topia”. The URL has changed as well, and all usernames of the SNS have changed accordingly.

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The Schoenbrunn Palace

In “His Last Bow”, Holmes and Watson drink Tokay from a special cellar at the Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna. I personally visited the Schoenbrunn Palace in 2011 and here’s the picture of it.

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Papa Cake for Father’s Day from Chateraise

  • 2018/06/18 Mon
  • Misc

On Father’s Day, I found many tweets about “Watson Cake”. They say Chateraise, a Japanese cake company, offered a special cake for Father’s Day, and it looked exactly like Dr Watson.

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