No Way Out in 2016

I remember, in China, when I was reading through the Sherlock Holmes stories in my own little red cased Kindle. I remember the return of Sherlock Holmes and how the whole adventure was contrived, unnatural, and distasteful. Almost disgusting. That the tobacco should still be in the same Persian slipper was too much.
And yet, with a very dear friend, maybe two, I contemplate a visit to Hikone.