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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San Michele, Venice, Italy
Home to the first Renaissance church in Venice, Isola di San Michele (the island of San Michele) is more famous…
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Roadside markers, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Graveyards are great levellers. There rarely are posh parts and poor parts. A grave is a grave. Yes, the markers…Italian WWI Cemetery, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
In the 1989 film Field of Dreams, while Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is walking through a cornfield, he hears someone whisper,…GP: Muslim Cemetery, Kuching, Malaysia
Robyn Flemming, the author of Skinful: A Memoir of Addiction, is very much alive and well and currently in Malaysia.…GP: Japanese Cemetery, Kuching, Malaysia
Robyn Flemming, the author of Skinful: A Memoir of Addiction, is very much alive and well and currently in Malaysia.…GP: Hakka Chinese Cemetery, Kuching, Malaysia
Robyn Flemming, the author of Skinful: A Memoir of Addiction, is very much alive and well and currently in Malaysia.…Military Cemetery, Petržalka, Slovakia
Three hundred thirty-one soldiers lie in this military cemetery (Vojenský cintorín), a stone's throw from the Austrian border. Born in…