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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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…
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Szent Mihály Domb, Vonyarcvashegy, Hungary
Climbing the hill to the church of Szent Mihály (St Michael) in Vonyarcvashegy, it was hard to believe that 136-metre-tall…Arbour Hill Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
The last people I expected to find in Arbour Hill were Padraig Pearse, James Connolly, and Sean McDermott. I would…Villánykövesd cemetery in the Villány wine region of Hungary
In southeastern Hungary, near the Croatian border, we stopped at Villánykövesd, one of the five villages that comprise the Villány…John the Valiant
Three hundred and seventy verses with 1480 lines make for one hell of a long poem. But I read them…Chiesa di Santa Chiara, Enna, Sicily
Chiesa di Santa Chiara is more than a church, it's an indoor cemetery. Until 1767, it was home to the…A fossa de parrini, Gangi, Sicily
For the most part, Christians and Jews are buried lying down, while Muslims are buried standing up. Or so I've…