Remembering: The British War Cemetery, Trincomalee
November 11, 2017
Depending on where you live, it’s Veteran’s Day or Remembrance Day. DrFumblefinger remembers with a visit to the British War Cemetery in Trincomalee.
Depending on where you live, it’s Veteran’s Day or Remembrance Day. DrFumblefinger remembers with a visit to the British War Cemetery in Trincomalee.
George G shares a visit to the Cambridge American Cemetery, the only permanent World War II Memorial in the British Isles.
Who would have guessed the most expensive real estate in Buenos Aires is found in a cemetery? Not only is it expensive, there’s a line waiting to get in (seriously)!
For reasons I can’t completely explain, the great cemeteries of Paris are among the city’s major tourist attractions. There is the amazing statuary to be seen, yes. There are the graves of the rich and famous, certainly….
After the French Revolution, came the cemetery revolution. Paris’ Pere Lachaise cemetery was in the vanguard of this 19th century movement, when small churchyards in expanding cities could no longer hold all the dead.
There are few places in Ireland with a richer history than the Rock of Cashel . Situated at the edge of the town of Cashel, the rock is a huge outcropping on top of which rests a complex of old buildings situated some 60m (200ft)…
Depending on where you live, it’s Veteran’s Day or Remembrance Day. DrFumblefinger remembers with a visit to the British War Cemetery in Trincomalee.
George G shares a visit to the Cambridge American Cemetery, the only permanent World War II Memorial in the British Isles.
Who would have guessed the most expensive real estate in Buenos Aires is found in a cemetery? Not only is it expensive, there’s a line waiting to get in (seriously)!
For reasons I can’t completely explain, the great cemeteries of Paris are among the city’s major tourist attractions. There is the amazing statuary to be seen, yes. There are the graves of the rich and famous, certainly….
After the French Revolution, came the cemetery revolution. Paris’ Pere Lachaise cemetery was in the vanguard of this 19th century movement, when small churchyards in expanding cities could no longer hold all the dead.
There are few places in Ireland with a richer history than the Rock of Cashel . Situated at the edge of the town of Cashel, the rock is a huge outcropping on top of which rests a complex of old buildings situated some 60m (200ft)…