Londonmosaik - Part 1 (English)

“I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the l oungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained” (STUD)

The Moriarty incidents - a security report

Lost in the subway

That the Moriarty organisation is still alive and operating, we learned at once on our arrival. Our luggage came promtly, but the Moriarty agents delayed the one Swedish trunk. An ingenius idea: Delay one and you will delay all. Furtunately the train from Stanstead had a former street arab as a driver. He managed to drive five minutes faster than scheduled to Liverpool Station.

The professor had foreseen that and had hired a special train to block the Westbound Circle Line. We jumped with our luggage in and out of trains and from platform to platform.

Victoria Station

The professor, however, underestimated our intellectual resources. We all knew the Sherlock Holmes Museum by heart, so we started at Marylebone Library with their Sherlock Holmes Collection. Afterwards the experienced Catherine Cooke led us through Baker Street byways to the Lansdowne Club thus avoiding further troubles from the professor.

Cathrine Cook

The next attack became evident on Friday at three o´clock. Disquised as an Arab prince, the professor had hired the Conan Doyle suite at The Langham Hotel for 45 days, just to be sure that we didn´t came too early or stayed a day or two longer. At the Wagner concert in the evening at the Royal Festival Hall he managed to slip in so many false votes that the concert started with Beethoven`s Leonora Ouverture in stead of Weber. The ‘boohs’ of the Danish Sherlockians were drowned in the ‘hears’ from Moriarty´s agents, who obviously outnumbered us.

During the night the Moriarty gang disguised as engineers closed down the whole Circle Line and parts of District Line to prevent the Danish Sherlockians from leaving their hotel by Victoria Underground, but we escaped through Picadilly Circus. As a special insult to Verner Andersen, Moriarty had persuaded The Meacher, Higgins and Thomas Pharmacy to close this Saturday. Moriarty had a busy night. Our stubbornness and energy forced him to use biological weapons.

In front of Simpsons-in-the-Strand

Following his principle from Stanstead, Delay one and you will delay all, he attacked Mia as head of the group. Headache, fever, gastritis and so forth forced her to go to bed, but her preparations for the dinner at Simpsons in the Strand had been detailed and comprehensive. The nine Danes enjoyed excellent food and drink in separate chambers. Our only sorrow in the excellent moods was the thought of our chairman suffering. Near Eccleston Square you´ll find The George. The pub was visited a few times by many of the group (and many times by a few). On the opposite side of the street The Moriarty Foundation had established a Blue Cross institution hoping that the similiarity with The Danish Temperance Movement would scare us away, but in vain. Through observation (from inside The George) we found out that the blue cross was a logo for an Animal Hospital. Furthermore we deduced that the large ambulance had been designed to bring a descendant of a certain hound from the moors of nature to the moors of stone.

The Sherlock Holmes Pub

They did fortunately not succeed before our departure. When the professor learned Sunday morning that Mia was still going strong, he gave up his original scheme: To prevent us from carrying through our Sherlockian studies. Instead he ordered revenge: Prevent them from leaving the country. We had a tight schedule, so we had ordered our luncheons in advance. The written order was stolen from The Sherlock Holmes Pub & Restaurant (of all places).

A toast to the Master

Two members of his gang appeared as servants using the most bureaucratic way to collect new orders and thus slowing things down. Thanks to Mia´s quick payment, we were not delayed. Moriarty kept Circle Line and part of District Line closed also this Sunday. Furthermore he managed to stop the Stanford Express, but we reached the airport in due time by bus. Using his standard principle: Delay one and you will delay all, he made the shuffle train, which was to take us to gate 17, break down, when only half of us had boarded the plane. With elegant laziness Bjarne (J) walked the last distance across the airfield entering as the last passenger, and we all reached Denmark.

Londonmosaic

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Part 2 (Danish)

Part 3 (English/Danish)