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Mont-de-Huisnes German war cemetery, Huisnes-sur-Mer, France

stolenchild66 September 26, 2023 No Comments

From the sterility of the Normandy American Cemetery to the colours of the Commonwealth’s Bayeux War Cemetery, I was completely unprepared for the Mont-de-Huisnes German war cemetery. A total of…

Bayeux War Cemetery, Bayeux, France

stolenchild66 September 25, 2023 1 Comment

There’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.

Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France

stolenchild66 September 24, 2023 2 Comments

Given the Brobdingnagian scale of this cemetery, it’s difficult to imagine that there was a time when it wasn’t here. When it didn’t exist.

Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany – Part 2

stolenchild66 July 21, 2023 No Comments

Ohlsdorf Cemetery is bigger than Central Park in New York. It gets a lot of traffic, living and dead with about 7000 burials a year. It’s been around since the…

Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany – Part 1

stolenchild66 May 30, 2023 1 Comment

Billed as a cemetery park or rural cemetery, at 400 ha Ohlsdorf Cemetery is the largest in the world. As ordinary cemeteries go, it’s the fourth-largest. And if you exclude…

The island of San Michelle with its yellow-bricked wall surround and cemetery trees

San Michele, Venice, Italy

stolenchild66 November 3, 2022 1 Comment

Home to the first Renaissance church in Venice, Isola di San Michele (the island of San Michele) is more famous today as the burial place of Russian composer, Igor Stravinsky,…

Roadside markers, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

stolenchild66 June 28, 2022 No Comments

Graveyards are great levellers. There rarely are posh parts and poor parts. A grave is a grave. Yes, the markers or the headstones might reflect the wealth of those interred…

Italian WWI Cemetery, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

stolenchild66 May 23, 2022 No Comments

In the 1989 film Field of Dreams, while Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is walking through a cornfield, he hears someone whisper, ‘If you build it, he will come.’ He figured out…

Muslim Cemetery in the grounds of Kuching’s Old State Mosque - pink mosque with a golden dome and a mineret

GP: Muslim Cemetery, Kuching, Malaysia

stolenchild66 May 16, 2022 No Comments

Robyn Flemming, the author of Skinful: A Memoir of Addiction, is very much alive and well and currently in Malaysia. In this, the third of three guest posts (GPs), Robyn…

GP: Japanese Cemetery, Kuching, Malaysia

stolenchild66 May 14, 2022 No Comments

Robyn Flemming, the author of Skinful: A Memoir of Addiction, is very much alive and well and currently in Malaysia. In this, the second of three guest posts (GPs), Robyn…

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