Visits to cemeteries around the world
People all over the world are dying to get in to cemeteries, to graves, to mausoleums. Their bones are buried, their ashes encased, their lives summarised in the dash between two dates. Their epitaphs, their choice of grave marker, their obituary, all tell a story. Cemeteries are museums of life often overlooked, frequently ignored. When I travel, I travel to meet the living and to pay my respects to the dead. These are my stories.
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Jerusalem War Cemetery, Chouain, France
Near the village of Chouain, in the tiny hamlet of Jerusalem, about 9 km outside Bayeux, lie the remains of…
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Mont-de-Huisnes German war cemetery, Huisnes-sur-Mer, France
From the sterility of the Normandy American Cemetery to the colours of the Commonwealth's Bayeux War Cemetery, I was completely…Bayeux War Cemetery, Bayeux, France
There's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Given the Brobdingnagian scale of this cemetery, it's difficult to imagine that there was a time when it wasn't here.…Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany – Part 2
Ohlsdorf Cemetery is bigger than Central Park in New York. It gets a lot of traffic, living and dead with…Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany – Part 1
Billed as a cemetery park or rural cemetery, at 400 ha Ohlsdorf Cemetery is the largest in the world. As…San Michele, Venice, Italy
Home to the first Renaissance church in Venice, Isola di San Michele (the island of San Michele) is more famous…