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.

Latest post

Cemetery with graves in the foreground and a red-roofed church in the background. it offers a glimpse of the blue-and-white tiled fresco of St Martin

Freixieiro de Soutelo, Portugal

On our way to Vila Praia de Âncora, we happened upon Igreja de São Martinho (St Martin’s Church), with its wonderful tile depiction of the iconic moment when St Martin…
Read more
@ 2024 Mary Murphy
[mailpoet_form id="1"]