In Puducherry (Pondicherry) in January, the top of my list of places to visit was the old French cemetery. We had a difficult time finding it. No one we asked…
High on my list when visiting Fort Kochi, was to pay my respects at the old Dutch Cemetery. It dates to 1724 and is one of the country’s oldest European…
Visiting Munnar, I was keen to find the grave of Eleanor Isabel May Knight, whose 1894 grave predates the cemetery in which it lies, the cemetery in turn predating the…
While spending a few days in Ooty, a hill station in the Nilgiris in the Western Ghats, we drove over to Coonoor in search of Tiger Hill Cemetery, an old…
In the village of Dublin in Sierra Leone sits an old, old cemetery. Like many cemeteries in this part of the world, the headstones have fallen, choked by a jungle…
The DN1, the road between Brașov and Predeal, is littered with hairpin turns, white-knuckle bends that had me channelling my inner Rosemary Smith. I spotted a cemetery off to the…
Hungarian artist Szilvia Fekete is someone I greatly admire. I’m a big fan of her work. A while back, she told me about the hearts in the old cemetery in…
There’s an impressive gate to Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit-run private boarding school for boys in Clane, Co. Kildare. The Jesuits bought the fifteenth-century castle along with 219 acres in…
Back in seventh-century Ireland, a chap who’d later be known as St Finian of Innisfallen, happened upon this part of the world and set up a monastery. Whether he was…
